What type of Knife sharperning tools

What type of sharpening tools do you use to sharpen your hunting knife or any knife?

I just bought a new hunting lock blade (Old Timer) and a general purpose cheap lock blade.

Years ago I just use to use a nice stone but that was a long time ago and I know longer have that and now there are so many types of kit's and stones.

I see looking at the kit's diamond stones of all different grits, oil stones, water stones.

I want the knife to have a very sharp blade and I am thinking probably something general purpose to keep it sharp once I get a proper edge. That's the other thing at one time Buck knifes and Old Timer already came with a nice edge I notice now they come dull.


Also is there any way to sharpen the little ripper edges on some knifes?

That's one of those questions that has lots of answers GW.

If you want one for the man cave to hone your blades perfectly during the winter months etc, you can go wrong with one of the Lansky kits. (http://lansky.com/index.php/products...-stone-system/ )

If you want a field type, for putting on a quick edge while you out in the bush, dressing game etc, then any of the draw type sharpening gadgets will work.

I have the Edgemaker Pro (https://secure.edgemaker.com/section...spx?prod_id=15 ) . What I like about it is that you can lean it on the tailgate etc to keep it under control and it has two stones; one for taking out nicks and one for honing.

If you want a small one for your pocket the 'Speedy Sharp' from Canadian Tire work amazingly well.

https://secure.edgemaker.com/section...spx?prod_id=15

I have some wet and oil stones at home to set the blade up. I have a speedy type sharpener in my field bag for resharpening in the field.

I would recommend the spyderco sharpmaker. It works and is easy to use! Do a review on that system and you will see what I mean. It is a little pricey but you only buy it once.

I have some diamond grit stones that have worked well (Smith's), but recently I got this Ken Onion work sharpener as a gift. Damn, it is excellent. Really easy to use, does all variety of blades including serrated blades and gut hooks etc.

http://www.worksharptools.com/ken-on...sharpener.html

I use an AccuSharp tool. It has 2 V-blades to draw the knife through. ONe is steel (rough sharpen) and one is ceramic for for finer edge. It also has a pull fine round file to tune up the ripper edges you mention. Very handy tool.

Spyderco Sharpmaker, with the Lansky kit as second choice. You can use the Sharpmaker on serrated blades, but you're better off just avoiding serrated blades....

Sharpmaker absolutely is great. I have the extra fine rods as well and I normally finish on a strop loaded with green .5 micron paste and then bare leather. You can easily get a good steel to tree top arm hairs and push cut phone book paper with the fine rods but the strop just makes knives scary sharp. The sharp maker will also sharpen your serrated bread knives, potato peelers, scissors, pretty much anything. If you're looking to re-profile the sharp maker can be slow without the diamond rods but I just use coarse sandpaper cut to width and attach with rubber bands for heavy stock removal.

I like using my Lansky Blade Medic and Speedy Sharp. Both are small, easy to use, and economical.

Spyderco Sharpmaker at home. Speedy Sharp in the field.