sharpening stone

[aza148]

is the jack pyke sharpening stone any good?]

[Septic]

Hi Assa

I use a kallkniven dc4 and have found it very good it also comes in a leather cover
and is easily stowed in your pack.

[Septic]

Hi Assa

I use a fallkniven dc4 its very good and comes in a leather cover


stephen

[Dave Budd]

I use a large double sided waterstone in the workshop. It's too big to carry around, but it is cheap and does a ruddy good job :D

Day to day in the field (if you like) I just rely on my knife being of good enough quality that I don't need to worry about it blunting ;)

[Mang]

I use a large double sided waterstone.......it is cheap and does a ruddy good job :D



Where would one get a cheap but useful waterstone oh learned one?;-)

[British Red]

Axminster tools fellah

[Dave Budd]

:D that's them

[Quarryman]

The 250 side of my waterstone has become quite undulated, does anyone use a particular surface to re-flatten?

[Mang]

I've just visited the Axminster site so thanks both of you-There's several, perhaps this one?http://www.axminster.co.uk/product-King-Japanese-Combination-Waterstones-22468.htm

[Dave Budd]

the way I true all of mine is to let it dry out completely and find yourself a paving slab (I have one just for that purpose as I'm a mile from the nearest pavement!).

Rub the stone back and forth across the surface until flat :) if it's taking too long or the slab is too smooth just sprinkle some fine dry sand on it ;)

I did try the truing blocks but to be honest if you want a truly flat stone they don't work.

btw. I generally use the 250/1000 stones for teaching and they are what I recommend to people. I use the single grit bricks as I tend to get through them rather too quickly (last year I sharpened about 2000 knives and lots of other things such as chisels, planes, drawknives, etc on the waterstones). The only time I would use the 1000/6000 is for carving tools that need a fine polished cutting edge.