Thread: Best way to sharpen Mercator Stainless?

Originally Posted by 38 South

In the days when I trapped possums for a living in the mid seventies, early eighties a faithful Mercator with it's Solingen steel blade was the only knife in the game, to sharpen them we used a round "Carborundum" axe stone, just the fine side. The edge was ground at a very flat angle to an edge like a razor that held up well, the knives were retired when the blade became to short to be of use. Those knives were $7 or $8 each IIRC, I can't see any stainless steel version replicating those legendary knives, let alone for $12 in 2021.

Yeah, mine is a bunnings one, was $12 maybe 5-10 years ago?