Knife sharpener

[Haiku_Rodney]

My hunting knives have d2 steel blades. I use eze lap diamond stones. I seem to get a longer life with eze lap than DMT. I use the diamond stones to shape the edge and finish the blade with a leather strop treated with yellowstone honing compound. The strop with the honing compound polishes the edge and leaves it incredibly sharp. I can de-bone deer using only the strop to touch up the knife.

Note that d2 is very brittle so you cannot grind it to a really fine angle or the blade will start chipping. Also you want to avoid the dropping the knives. They have been known to break when dropped onto a rock.

[tufrthnails]

Holy crap you guys raised this one from the dead 2012!!!!!
BTW a strop is the way I go with honing a blade! I use three one with rubbing compund, one with polishing compound, and one just leather. Super sharp and stay sharp for me. I skinned 4 deer with the same knife last year in KY and never needed to sharpen it. Although I see a lot of guys skinning deer wrong hacking the bone and cutting WAY more hair then necessary.