Why You Should Care About Sharpening Your Pocket Knife
There is a lot of confusion about blades going dull. Some even feel wrongly done when their prized knives start to go dull.
Here’s the fact, all knives including the best-selling knives will lose their edge at one point or another. A quality pocket knife will stay sharp a lot longer than cheap knock-offs but ultimately will still lose its bite.
This is not as heartbreaking as many may feel. Knives losing sharpness is a natural process like life and death. But the good news is, you can bring a quality pocket knife back to life with a quality sharpener.
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Knife sharpening is a skill that anyone can master with a bit of practice. And like learning any other skill, it trains your brain to be smarter.
But that’s not all. Some of the best pocket knife sharpeners are simple tools like Whetstone. Using a whetstone to sharpen your knife allows you to form a bond with your steel. You’ll feel that your own rhythm has begun to sync with the motion of the blade.
Knife sharpening is an art. To be able to sharpen your knife, especially at the beginning, you will have to understand the knife’s anatomy, its type, mechanism, blade, weight and size.
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Once you’ve understood the different parts of your knife, you can then start to master the use of a whetstone to sharpen your blade.
There are hundreds of tutorials online where you can see how to best use a whetstone to hone your steel. This is the one I recommend for beginners. Beginners Knife Sharpening Tutorial.
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