What do RAT owners use for sharpening?

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What do RAT owners use for sharpening?
Looking for links, knowledge, and pics!

I dont have pics but Im currently using a Lansky system and carry EZ Lap products for quick field touch-ups on my serrated knives. I also have an old smooth hard stone that I use for certain knives.

Im considering using a crossed ceramic rod type sharpener for a "carry" system. Who makes the best for a RAT RC5?
 
I did my R3 with a Buck 136 Honemaster Here's a pic doing a USAF Survival (don't those suckers have a dismal primary edge.)
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Don't bother asking Buck they haven't made them for years. But they do turn up on Fleabay.
I admit my R3 is one of those other ones ( in D2) but once I got a good edge on it with my selection of stones It has only been stropped since. Even after some reasonably hard battoning work and made quiet a few fuzz sticks it is still an easy shave. But just love the configueration and love the edge holding ability of D2.
Nearly all my other knives get done with a Spyderco 204 and then stropped.
Carl
 
At home i use a Norton fine/coarse India stone and a strop.

In the field I use a DMT diafold diamond hone and a ceramic rod.
 
IUKE12 said:
I'm using the Spyderco Sharpmaker on my RC-6 with good results so far.
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Same here with my Izula and RC3, as well as all my other knives. I love the Sharpmaker, it'll put a scary sharp edge on just about any blade, and for what it does the price isn't bad at all.
 
Sharpmaker, DMT duohone thingie, bunch of misc. stones from working with plastic molds and a homemade leather strop loaded with compound.
 
Soft and hard Arkansas stones. I just decided to get fancy and I'm going to start stropping w/ green compound on corrugated compound. Snazzy!
 
Depends on how dull I've made the knife. For small touch-ups, I'll use 600-grit sandpaper followed by 1000-grit, then stropping. For an edge that needs more work, here's my sharpening guides (in order of finest to coarsest)
Smooth ceramic rod, "fine" diamond rod, dogbone sharpener, rough ceracmic rod, "fine" stone, "fine" diamond plate, "medium" stone, "medium" diamond plate, "coarse" diamond plate, "coarse" stone, puck, file.

For most of my knives, I never let them get dull enough to get any coarser than the smooth ceramic stick will handle.
 
Leather strop & compound from KSF & DMT stones & tri smith Stone bench thingy...Gatco & Spyderco thingy....
 
Recently made my first strop - oh what a difference!!! :D
Just a strip of leather glued to a piece of wood, with a little Autosol metal polish smeared on the leather, lots of bald patches on my left arm :cool:
 
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