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Sharpening Knives in the Field

Rotten said:
I actually made quite a few knife handles for cold
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I made a few of the handles for cold steel knives. Not the fixed blades but for the automatic folders. This was back around 2000 for a machine shop I was at. Only owned one cold steel knife, it was a large fillet fish knife . Wasn't very impressed with it. To thick of a spine not enough flex to really skin the fish. Other than that have no experience with them as a hunting knife.
 
I carry a Work Sharp Pocket Knife sharpener in my kill kit and always touch up the blade after every animal and it has been very easy to keep a good edge over the course of about 9 years of pretty heavy use. I think I've processed somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 dozen big game animals (bear, deer, antelope), half a dozen sheep, an equal number of hogs, three cattle, and a countless number of various fowl. I find that keeping an edge is much easier than fixing a worn edge. I'm no metallurgist or knife aficionado, but the VG10 steel of my Spyderco Bill Moran seems to strike the perfect balance between edge retention and ease of sharpening. I prefer the robustness of a fixed blade over the replaceable blade options.
 

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