The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
No knife but here's an old picture of my Norton Crystolon combination stone. This stone is especially good to sharpen difficult stainless blades and works wonders for those that have difficulty sharpening D2.
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Great thread it is very interesting to see how all of you sharpen your knives. No pics right now but I was freehand sharpening for the last couple of years, I just purchased the Edge Pro and my edges are much better. I hope to use it to set a nice flat bevel and then freehand sharpen in the field and in between sharpenings with the edge pro. I still aspire to primarily sharpen freehand.
I'm a big proponent of using what works for you and see no shame in guided systems! Even those have learning curves. But I do love freehand sharpening as well. Be sure to peruse the Maint, Tinkering, and Embellishment forum and never hesitate to ask those folks questions. They are very generous with their knowledge.
Can you tell me more about this stone? It looks very cool, I'm intrigued!
"I remember a time camping in the northern Sierra with my Dad in the mid-1970’s, I wasn’t any older than 11 and one afternoon while sitting around camp Dad taught me how to sharpen a knife, I worked the edge on my Imperial Kamp-King and he the edge on his U.S.M.C. marked Camillus Ka-Bar, we used Dad's spit-stone that had different grits on each side, each of us adding our own spit to the stone as we honed away, him first then me. After we both had our edges sharp we had a grape cutting contest to see how many slices we could get out of a grape, Dad always got a few more slices with his Ka-Bar than I was able to get with my Imperial pocket folder...Good times, good times..."
This is the wet stone my Dad used to teach me how to sharpen a knife, it's a U.S. Marine Corps issue 2-grit stone from the 1950's, I first used it in mid-1970's and I still use it sometimes, here's the story of the first time I used this stone,
"I remember a time camping in the northern Sierra with my Dad in the mid-1970’s, I wasn’t any older than 11 and one afternoon while sitting around camp Dad taught me how to sharpen a knife, I worked the edge on my Imperial Kamp-King and he the edge on his U.S.M.C. marked Camillus Ka-Bar, we used Dad's spit-stone that had different grits on each side, each of us adding our own spit to the stone as we honed away, him first then me. After we both had our edges sharp we had a grape cutting contest to see how many slices we could get out of a grape, Dad always got a few more slices with his Ka-Bar than I was able to get with my Imperial pocket folder...Good times, good times..."