Sharpening Knives in the Field

[Rotten]

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.

 

[brant89]

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.

 

[Jester560]

I use a ceramic filament out of a high intensity light bulb. Works great and is quick and easy to get a shaving sharp edge.

 

[Victor3Ranger1]

I use a ceramic filament out of a high intensity light bulb. Works great and is quick and easy to get a shaving sharp edge.

I have been trying to find some of the long ones, if you have access to some I would gladly pay you for them and have them shipped to me
My grandkids broke the only two I could find.

 

[Jester560]

I have been trying to find some of the long ones, if you have access to some I would gladly pay you for them and have them shipped to me
My grandkids broke the only two I could find.

Will see what I can come up with.

 

[Victor3Ranger1]

Will see what I can come up with.

Please let me know, those are my absolute favorites