"Canuck57" wrote in message
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Going boating, regs or no regs every sane boater brings a good knife. In
fact I don't remember seeing knive in our regs, but it is a good practice.
Expecially if you have to cut others line out of the prop.

Maybe even 2 or 3. Me, I have one on my belt and another in the tackle
box as a minimum. Usually a couple more at the fish cleaning station.
Need to cut rope or a fish, or fishing line, only a quick reach away.

But keeping them shape. Same problem in the home. Real pain in the
crack. What experiences work best to get these things sharp enough to
shave with? Not gimick solutions, I mean get knives real professionally
sharp but do it at home or the cottage. What methods are people using?

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I use a 2" x 6" EZLap diamond stone. Bought one in 1974 to sharpen diving
knives, and it worked great. Finally got a new one last year, the old one
lasted that long. About $25. You can use it like a file, too, holding your
knife or blade stationary and making stroking movements with your stone.

When I was diving, we used ******* files to sharpen our folding
aluminum/Queen steel diving knives so that they would actually have a hack
saw type cutting edge to go through the rope. That worked nicely for the
underwater knives, but my topside stuff was finished off with the diamond
stone, and I was always doing other guys knives once they cut anything with
one of my knives.

Two things are critical when knife sharpening: the angle and the stone. A
guy who knows the angle can sharpen a cutting instrument on a rock and get
it pretty sharp.

YMMV, and I'm reasonably sure it does.

Steve

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