Knife Sharpening Blog

If you’re going to be a true wood carver, you really should learn how to sharpen your own tools. And straight chisels are the easiest carving tools to sharpen. Once you know how to do it correctly, you could sharpen any other straight-edged tool in your collection.

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When your gouge has lost its razor-sharpness, one way to bring the edges back to pristine condition is to use a gouge honing board. You can easily make it yourself in less than an hour. And it works very fast.

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Ceramic knives are quite amazing. They can hold their edges for months at a time without needing any sharpening. They’re much harder that steel and so are the strongest knives around. Even knowing that, isn’t it curious how cutting bone in meat can chip the edges? Find out why.

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We all agree. If a knife isn’t sharp, what’s the use, right? The sharpness of the blade will make all the difference in the world. And sharpness is largely dependant upon the quality of the blade material from which the knife is made. You’ll need to determine whether or not to get stamped knives or [...]

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Any person who willingly engages in an activity where the ground you stand on could disappear beneath your feet, where the earth around you could bury you alive or where the weather alone could blow you right off a mountain, well. Mountain Climbers are just insane. They engage in one of the most extreme, most [...]

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There are so many kinds of knife sharpeners out there. It could be exciting just to select one. You could use an electric grinder but that’s pretty major. Only professional sharpeners should go there. Maybe you’d like an electric sharpener, the ones where all you’ve got to do is just swipe the blade through. Perhaps [...]

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I’ll tell you, I’ve jumped off a boat into the clearest blue water way, way, way out in the ocean. Hundreds of feet deep on a bright sunny day with not a thing in sight, above or below the water. There’s nothing like it and few things come close. And no matter how scared I get—and I get scared quite often—fear doesn’t stand a chance. I won’t allow it.

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When I was really young, climbing trees was like eating candy for me. If it had branches, I had to climb it. The steep hill behind grandma’s house was covered with towering mango trees. I’d spend hours there climbing from branch to branch high in the canopies, even tree to tree without touching the ground.  [...]

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So you want to be a mountain climber. You want to be a mountaineer, do you? Alright then. Here are the very basics. Mountaineering is the act of hiking, climbing and camping up mountains. To most of us it is a sport, a hobby. But to those for which mountaineering is like breathing, it is [...]

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Field dressing a deer is some kind of job. You’ve got to have a very strong constitution for it. It’s all blood and guts, after all. But you’ve decided to be a deer hunter, so you’ve got to be able to do it and do it well. Sure don’t want to waste your catch by [...]

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