Sharpening some vintage knives.... some with some serious use.

[Woodrow F Call]

Not my video, just thought y'all would enjoy. Some cool old knives that look to get some use.

Feel free to post your worn knives and sharpening set ups.

 

[cudgee]

Thanks for posting. A nice and simple way to do something that we seem to have made so complicated. Watching that reminded me of the way the old timers used to do it, and got pleasure out of doing it, all he needed was a roll your own hanging out of the left side of his gob.

 

[afishhunter]

Nice to know freehand sharpening isn't a lost "life skill" (yet) like so many other things that were "common knowledge" when we were youngsters.

 

[cudgee]

Not my video, just thought y'all would enjoy. Some cool old knives that look to get some use.

Feel free to post your worn knives and sharpening set ups.

He also has an interesting post restoring an old rusty pocket knife.

 

[JM2]

Thanks for sharing. I always hold my stones. I’ll have to give some of his technique a try.

 

[Just Tom.]

Thanks for sharing. I always hold my stones. I’ll have to give some of his technique a try.

Here is a retelling of a joke I originally heard on a video from “The Crafsman” Steady Craftin’:

It is very important to always have a pocket knife and sharpening stone with you when you are in the woods. If you ever get lost, just sit down where you are and start sharpening your knife. Within 5 minutes, somebody will be along to tell you you’re doing it all wrong…

Edit:
I posted this before, as have others, but here is the video. The joke is in the first few seconds (he tells it way better):

 

[JM2]

After thinking on it... he missed an important thing. He pushes the stone down into the box and it seems pretty snug, but once it’s screwed down, he doesn’t show how he gets it out. He shows tappi my the box against the sawhorse to remove it, when it’s not attached.

 

[JM2]

Here is a retelling of a joke I originally heard on a video from “The Crafsman” Steady Craftin’:

It is very important to always have a pocket knife and sharpening stone with you when you are in the woods. If you ever get lost, just sit down where you are and start sharpening your knife. Within 5 minutes, somebody will be along to tell you you’re doing it all wrong…

Edit:
I posted this before, as have others, but here is the video. The joke is in the first few seconds (he tells it way better):

That was awesome man. At first I was like not into it but then I started digging it. Held a pretty cool model builder. I got a couple chuckles out of it.

 

[5K Qs]

Thanks for sharing. I always hold my stones. I’ll have to give some of his technique a try.

I also tend to prefer holding a stone in one hand and knife in the other (but I'm a rank amateur when it comes to sharpening).
And I've had some success with the method in the video linked below, moving the stone against stationary knife, rather than vice versa.

- GT

 

[Just Tom.]

That was awesome man. At first I was like not into it but then I started digging it. Held a pretty cool model builder. I got a couple chuckles out of it.

I don’t do any kind of crafting or model making, but somebody here posted a link to one of his videos a few years back, and I have been hooked ever since.

 

[JM2]

I also tend to prefer holding a stone in one hand and knife in the other (but I'm a rank amateur when it comes to sharpening).
And I've had some success with the method in the video linked below, moving the stone against stationary knife, rather than vice versa.

- GT

I like how, at about 4:20 he shows how to check the edge by whittling a stick. So he whittled it a couple times and then looks at the camera, as he makes a stroke. That’s a bad habit for your fingers.

An interesting stone he’s got with brass backing. Hmmm.

I never have seen that technique though, thanks for sharing. I said I always hold the stone, I guess that’s not exactly correct. If I was sharpening a Bowie knife I’d use a bench stone. But for a pocket knife I hold the stone.