Hey TW! Let's see your knives!

Yeah the stones I use on my axes aren’t cheap by any stretch. But once you got them your set. I have not spent a lot of time hand sharpening my knives. This is something that has intrested me over the last year. I had some what exhausted my other hobbies, and while I have always carried and used a variety of knives. Recently I have caught the bug.

I definitely gravitate towards fixed blades, that hasn’t changed since I was a kid

 

The stones are great, but guide itself is ok I guess. It would something to start out with! Freehand is the way to go. Once you use the guide for a while, ditch it and try your hand at freehand. It's all muscle memory after a while.

 

DMT makes great stones, I prefer their diasharp bench stones for size and ease of use, typically use an extra coarse and extra fine (something like 250 grit and 1200 grit) plus strop.

Their mini honers are great too for field sharpening axes and whatnot, but much harder to maintain angle.

 

Hell yeah just found this thread!!!! Purchased one of my grail knives today. Hinderer XM-18 3.5 skinner grind. Im traveling and happened to be in greensboro NC. if anyone is close to that area, The Knife Room at BTSouth. excellent, excellent store!!!!!!!!!! They had 3 of the Bowie grinds when I left this afternoon

 

I have a few of those Hinderers as well! Great knives!

 

Well I've been waiting on this knife for a while and I'm glad I waited! This is really a beautiful Benchmade and I'm really glad to have gotten two

 

Nice looking blade!

 

Thanks! DLC coated Shot show 2019 exclusive

 

Wife and I go to Bladeshow every year in ATL, but if Shot Show were closer, we'd be going there too!

 

Looking good man love the hardware! Have you replaced the teflon washers with pb or does the teflon seem to hold up? I'm replacing with pb regardless because my blade actually has some rub marks from the handle scale. The marks dont bother me, im going to use it as a tool but the teflon isnt enough
Edit-long way of asking if you have replaced where did you find them???

 

This is the 6th gen Hinderer, so it comes with the ball bearing washers. The ball bearing washers totally blow the teflon and phosphor bronze washers out of the water! The best Hinderer they have made to date! You can buy the PB washers for pretty cheap on ebay.

 

Another tool that will only serve to betray my advancing years....this one is battered and scarred and nicked and chipped, evidence of its long hard life in Service...Ka-Bar Original TDI

 

I love my Kabars as well!

 

Yeah, I have several different ones...they seem to be the perfect balance between affordable and reliable...there are (probably) better knives out there, but they come at a premium price....and there are cheaper ones as well, but I'd never trust my well-being to one....

And they are all cool

 

Not bad!!!

 

Keep me updated as to stuff you wanna let go. Packed up and ready to use that knife!

 

Will do! I'm down to pretty much my solid keepers right now, but if I do decide to offload, I'll let you know!

Your EDC2 is out for delivery by the way!

 

Thanks man! I just got done loading my trailer up for an adventure. Meeting up with about 25ish other TW peeps and then heading to NC.

 

Damn, that sounds fun! Take lots of pics and share your adventures when you get back! Tag me when you do!