FishyFolk
10-04-2012, 04:44 PM
I have owned some pretty expensive knives in the past. But never sharpened them myself. Well, they where so expensive I never dared to use them... :ashamed:
Well, they have been given away, sold or else gotten rid of. And these days I can't afford something like that anyway, (buy your poshcraft gear before you get a family lads)
Anyway, I always kept a few Mora knives around as well, and own 3 Mora 2000 knives. 1 is my personal knife, and that has only been used properly. And then there is the wrecks that the kids use to gut fish.
None of them have ever been sharpened. I used to treat these like I treated any other cheap knife, as a disposable thing. When "used up" i.e no longer sharp I bin it, and get a new one. After all, here in Norway they cost less than a pint...
Okay I am to long winded, lets get to the point. I want to take better care of my stuff, even the cheap ones, becouse thats what I have, and all this waste just has to stop. So I have looked at a bunch of youtube videos, and I am practicing on a couple of Mora 711 that I found rusting away in a drawer...
Then the question before you guys think I am an Ent:
I am using a wet stone. How much force should I use. Should I push the blade onto the stone, or should I just let the blade glide softly over it?
The rest of my questons I found in the you tube videoes....
Well, they have been given away, sold or else gotten rid of. And these days I can't afford something like that anyway, (buy your poshcraft gear before you get a family lads)
Anyway, I always kept a few Mora knives around as well, and own 3 Mora 2000 knives. 1 is my personal knife, and that has only been used properly. And then there is the wrecks that the kids use to gut fish.
None of them have ever been sharpened. I used to treat these like I treated any other cheap knife, as a disposable thing. When "used up" i.e no longer sharp I bin it, and get a new one. After all, here in Norway they cost less than a pint...
Okay I am to long winded, lets get to the point. I want to take better care of my stuff, even the cheap ones, becouse thats what I have, and all this waste just has to stop. So I have looked at a bunch of youtube videos, and I am practicing on a couple of Mora 711 that I found rusting away in a drawer...
Then the question before you guys think I am an Ent:
I am using a wet stone. How much force should I use. Should I push the blade onto the stone, or should I just let the blade glide softly over it?
The rest of my questons I found in the you tube videoes....