Tell Us How You Sharpen Your Traditional Folders.

[MadTrapper]

There's more than one way to skin a cat. Tell us your preferred means to keep your blades shaving sharp.

 

[philllll]

Lots of good stuff here:

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...o-how-do-you-folksy-types-sharpen-your-knives
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...arpen-your-carbon-steel-traditional-knives-at

 

[leghog]

Small (3" and 4") stones.

 

[bonzodog]

DMT Aligner kit

 

[jc57]

Sharpmaker, DMT 6" stones, leather stop with green compound. Touchups on coffee mugs, cardboard for strop.

 

[Rich S]

Have been hand sharpening and honing on natural bench stones for 63 years.
Rich

 

[Fire Beard]

Sharpmaker.

 

[Peregrin]

This is better suited to "Maintenance, Tinkering & Embellishment". Moving it there now.

 

[jackknife]

My traditional pocket knife is sharpened on a very traditional stone.

 

[Easyrider]

Spyderco bench stones and couple of leather covered blocks of wood with stropping compound.

 

[afishhunter]

fine wet stone and fine ceramic rod, and an old leather belt for strop

 

[droptrd]

For my EDC, normally I use my sharpmaker. But the last couple weeks ive been really working on my freehand. I use an Arkansas tri hone and a spyderco 302F bench stone. Everything is finished on a knives plus or flexxx strop

 

[QuakingAspen]

"Handysharp" tungsten sharpener, Spyderco "Double stuff" stone. I can easily get blades shaving sharp with these, and it really doesn't matter where I am (the two things take up a tiny amount of space in my backpack).

 

[kn4wd]

Arkansas progression soft, med, hard, finish on surgical black or translucent.. if I feel like it needs any extra I would pull out the jnat and run a progression on it.

 

[Corwyn_bv]

Lansky Sharpmaker

 

[collim1]

Medium diamond stone, fine Arkansas, loaded leather strop, smooth leather strop

 

[Dopic1]

800 Grit 3M Trizact belt on my 72 inch grinder until I get a consistent burr, then buff on a flannel wheel loaded with white diamond compound. Shaving sharp.

 

[Wheeler80]

Fine DMT credit card "stone", ceramic stone, then strop on either an old belt or, oddly enough, the cloth seats in my work truck.

 

[Phydeaux]

I sharpen them free hand on a bench stone, just like the rest of my knives.

ric

 

[hank_rearden]

all my traditionals are over two years old, i use them often, and i haven't sharpened any of them.