I found this stone in my late grandpa’s things. I can’t find a tutorial on how to use it safely. Any ideas?

  • southsamurai
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    2 months ago

    Don’t need a tutorial, really.

    Those are for axes and hatchets. You just use them either along the edge, or from back to front, depending on your preferences. Neither method is going to be dangerous as long as you don’t get in a hurry

    You wouldn’t use one of these to do proper sharpening, where you’d be maintaining the angle. It’s just a field tool to keep things working well. I mean, you can do proper sharpening with one, it would just be slower and more annoying than a bench stone.

    • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Definitely an axe stone, I have one like it for keeping my American woods axe keen for limb lopping and light felling.

      You could use it to sharpen a pocket knife, but they are usually too rough to get a fine edge. Fine for a knife that does rough work like a woods knife, but a pocket knife should be sharper than the stone can do.