cloverleaf
Handloader
- Sep 10, 2006
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ok- you get the point of my post. I am generally very organized, my gun was sighted and checked back in august, my stuff is al packed for this weekends hunting trip...the only thing that remains, the one thing I avoid 'til the last minute is trying to sharpen that dumb knife. Its a Buck #110 given to me in the late 70's by my cousins late husband. IT was one of his first Christmas' with the family and he gave it to me as a "$5.00 exchange gift". When some one pointed out that he had spent to much, he said, "well the boy might as well have something he can use." Tim was killed in a construction accident several years later, one month before he was to stand up for my wife and I at our wedding. The knife will stay with me and its important to me that it gets used. However, I hate handing it to some one who is helping me gut a deer and getting immediately handed back with a disdainful look or some comment bout a dull knife.
I can put a usable edge on almost anything else I own. I understand the geometry, I use a fixture to maintain the proper angles, (in theory at least) and I have a half dozen different stones. I can get a rough edge but as soon as I try a finer stone, its gone and Im back to a butter knife (almost literally). It seems ridiculously hard to sharpen and does not hold an edge well.
What gives? I am on the verge of buying a "work sharp" or similar "belt grinder" and trying that but I cant afford or justify that $70 bucks. I realize that buying a Piranta would solve the problem but that isn't the point. Sorry just pointless grousing. Thoughts, commiserating appreciated. CL
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ok- you get the point of my post. I am generally very organized, my gun was sighted and checked back in august, my stuff is al packed for this weekends hunting trip...the only thing that remains, the one thing I avoid 'til the last minute is trying to sharpen that dumb knife. Its a Buck #110 given to me in the late 70's by my cousins late husband. IT was one of his first Christmas' with the family and he gave it to me as a "$5.00 exchange gift". When some one pointed out that he had spent to much, he said, "well the boy might as well have something he can use." Tim was killed in a construction accident several years later, one month before he was to stand up for my wife and I at our wedding. The knife will stay with me and its important to me that it gets used. However, I hate handing it to some one who is helping me gut a deer and getting immediately handed back with a disdainful look or some comment bout a dull knife.
I can put a usable edge on almost anything else I own. I understand the geometry, I use a fixture to maintain the proper angles, (in theory at least) and I have a half dozen different stones. I can get a rough edge but as soon as I try a finer stone, its gone and Im back to a butter knife (almost literally). It seems ridiculously hard to sharpen and does not hold an edge well.
What gives? I am on the verge of buying a "work sharp" or similar "belt grinder" and trying that but I cant afford or justify that $70 bucks. I realize that buying a Piranta would solve the problem but that isn't the point. Sorry just pointless grousing. Thoughts, commiserating appreciated. CL
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