Thread: Best way to sharpen Mercator Stainless?

Small blade like a Mercator can be stropped using the meaty side of the palm of your hand, being a chippy we do this to remove the burr on chisels.

Originally Posted by flock

Small blade like a Mercator can be stropped using the meaty side of the palm of your hand, being a chippy we do this to remove the burr on chisels.

Crikey some dude from H and S reading this would suffer from apoplexy.

Originally Posted by flock

Small blade like a Mercator can be stropped using the meaty side of the palm of your hand, being a chippy we do this to remove the burr on chisels.

This what I do as my palms are quite leathery from all the years on the tools. I do it for chisels, plane irons, knives etc. Not axes though as two heavy to do that with.