Strangest You've Sharpended With?

AKA Knife Knut · Nov 9, 2003

Laying Landscaping fabric the other day and touched up the edge of my Opinel Hawkbill on one of those electrical boxes set in the ground that are made made of glass FRN.
Any other interesting sharpening items?

dylan_d · Nov 9, 2003

My jeans...

me2 · Nov 9, 2003

Got a lot of strange looks using the unglazed bottom of a coffee mug to touch up a friends knife at his house (none of my stones handy).

Walking Man · Nov 9, 2003

I used the back side of utility blade. It's the one that you can break off pieces to get a fresh edge. It was a fairly new blade, so I had a decent sharpening runway.
It worked pretty well.

u812 · Nov 9, 2003

Shank of a screwdriver,work as good as a steel.The shank had a rough finnish.

Marcelo Cantu · Nov 9, 2003

my stubble

Sgt 127 · Nov 10, 2003

The edge of a partially rolled down car window makes a great crock stick.

Rothrandir · Nov 10, 2003

just tonight i was attempting to "strop" with my clothish mousepad. probably isn't doing anything, but at least it's good sharpening practice.

rev_jch · Nov 10, 2003

my jeans pant leg.

brownie0486 · Nov 10, 2003

A smooth stone from the bed of a stream we ran across while roughing it one year in the White Moubntains of NH. Put that rock in my pocket and used it for a week as I had forgotten to bring the ceramics.

Top edge of a car window works well as another has mentioned.

Brownie

Rugger · Nov 10, 2003

Another car window user. Works pretty well for touch-ups.

Don Luis · Nov 10, 2003

In a pinch things can be found around for touch-ups, spine of another knife, edge of glass (frosted edge of the glass on my coffe table works), nail file(the sand paper kind and the foamy backed nail polishers). for stropping, jeans, belts, leather sheaths, edge of cardboard boxes, newspaper, whatever.

In the field to get a rough edge (such as for cutting rope) with a cheap blade, look around for a suitable rock.

It´s still common in some places to sharpen some tools (machetes and agricultural tools) on concrete sidewalks.

Milu · Nov 10, 2003

On my windowsills. They're made of natural stone.

Chris Keller · Nov 10, 2003

A car windo and a round stone from Mill Creek.

Todd Robbins · Nov 10, 2003

Car window edges, bricks on the hearth when I was a kid, a ceramic pump rod. I used my weight lifting belt as a strop when I was in college.

Todd