Sharpeners and Camping?

ratamahatta

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Does anybody take any sharpeners with them while they go camping, if you do which ones??????
 
Of course! I tend to like ceramic or diamond hones in the outdoors, since I don't have to bring oil for them.
 
I stole a cue from Riley/Siguy and made a mini-kit out of an altoids tin. Just glued a piece of leather to one side (as a strop) and a piece of mouse pad to the other side. Carry your sandpaper grits inside the tin. Works quite well.

But I also don't have any blades with super-precise edge angles or anything, nothing that's like 'exactly 19.4 degrees' or something. I only sharpen using things that would work as well as field tools.
 
a little arkansas stone, some abrasive-loaded leather and an e-z lap diamond rod can put a great edge on just about anything IMO.
 
I pack a Spyderco double-sided (coarse / fine) ceramic stone, in a small leather pouch. It's great for touch-ups, plus there's just something special about sitting around the fire at night, sharpening your knife. :thumbup:

All the best,

- Mike
 
hank dangle said:
Does anybody take any sharpeners with them while they go camping, if you do which ones??????
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Lately I have been keeping a little Fallkniven DC-4 combo stone in my pack. One side of the DC-4 is fine diamond, the other is ceramic. I have a little piece of leather that fits over the stone to use as a strop. Very rarely do I actually need to sharpen (remove metal) in the field but firmly believe in maintaining by stropping or some light passes on the ceramic.
 
Mentor said:
I pack a Spyderco double-sided (coarse / fine) ceramic stone, in a small leather pouch. It's great for touch-ups, plus there's just something special about sitting around the fire at night, sharpening your knife. :thumbup:

All the best,

- Mike
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+1, the little Spyderco sharpeners are very nice.
 
I have a habit of always carrying a four-inch ceramic rod in the cargo pocket of my shorts. I'm thinking I'm gonna have to break down and make strop for the convex blades one of these days.
 
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Car camping I take a lot because my sisters in law always bring knives that are duller than butter knives. X-coarse, coarse DMT diafolds for reprofiling, fine and X-fine DMT stones, strops.

Backpacking I will often take a two-sided strop. Rough side with black BR compound, smooth side with green compound.
 
I often carry a piece of leather that just fits in my shirt pocket with a piece of 800 grit sandpaper glued on with adhesive spray glue.
 
I carry 2 stones and a square of thick leather with green compound.... The stones are a two sided 220/800 and a 6000....

Here is a pic of a "Utilipouch" from one of my Bush Kits...

BushKit004-1.jpg
 
i pack a double sided stone, one coarse and one fine.

i also pack a sheet or two of 600 grit and 1500 grit sand paper.
 
I have a V-type sharpener made in Rockwell, N.C. It works okay, especially for softter, predominately carbon steels that already have a decent edge. Case in point- it restored the hair-whittling edge to my Soddie Jr. right quick. Same with my Mora.
I also have a Case Small Arkansas stone, but I can't freehand worth a darn.
 
i have gone through a few different things, and carry different sharpeners depending on my mood.

for a list of several of them along with some blurry photos, go here.

i currently carry a two sided strop with coarse and fine compound. the leather straps are about 6".
 
Really only take a norton stone, and a gerber Diamond rod, does everything I need.
 
Old school :D
Gerber SharPak
On side ceramic
sharpPak.jpg

The other diamond
SharpPak2.jpg


The built in angle guide is cute too :D
 
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