Thread: Getting The Knife Sharp

Back when I made knife in workshop over the weekend via gift voucher from my wife,there were many handy tools that caught my attention
One of the most handy was a rotating kind of vice which allowed person to clamp handle of blade with blade itself sticking out horizontal towards you. Rather intimidating looking at blade pointing at my fat puku but very handy to draw file the last bit of edge/put angle on edge. It's stuck in my mind and yesterday I worked out red neck way to do it myself. Simple G clamp in my bench vise. G clamp holds blade right up by handle and bench vise grips G clamp wherever on curved bit of its body makes suitable angle,this allowed not only draw filing but I took stone to blade while held there and worked on it some too. Might revisit this later as if stone held flat and drawn across blade it's sort of how commercial sharpeners work with blade held at fixed angle. Keeping stone flat would be the key.