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Yep, finding the time to do everything that one would like can be a problem. It’s got everything going for it - wood carving (fine, and hard use), food prep (vegetable and animal). It looks like a winner in many aspects. It's a source of pride to me that Sheffield craftsmanship still...

An ingenious and inspirational design, and one that’s beautifully executed. Lovely pics, too! Best regards, Paul.

Love everything about this one, profile and blade geometry, choice of steel, handle shape, handle material. A great collaboration, guys. Looking forward to reading more about this one. Kind regards, Paul.

Thank you kind, sir, and most unlike me :D Very kind regards, Paul.

If you’re just starting out then it can be very confusing in respect to all the ways available to sharpen and hone bladed tools, and if you ask for an opinion you can often get a 100 differing opinions. Sharpening tools can be a somewhat contentious issue. As I mentioned in an earlier post...

:D I like that. I don't need to do that either, but it's fun to try and do those things sometimes :) To be honest, most of the time I use the ceramic side of a DC4 and a leather strop for everything from a pocket knife to an axe. I don't use carpenter's tools at all, other than a saw and...

The coarser Japanese waterstones wear down (belly/dish/become concaved) quicker that the finer grit stones. Grits coarser than 1000 generally are used for reshaping a blade’s geometry, and they can dish very quickly, depending on what one is doing with them. For fairly aggressive sharpening you...

AC is very, very interesting stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activated_carbon http://www.activated-carbon.com/carbon.html http://www.sutcliffespeakman.com/actifrmr.htm...

Nice thread, I'm famished! Anyone tried smoking home cured bacon up a chimney? Best regards, Paul.

A very useful post, Tiley. Though, you have me at a disadvantage, in respect to the ultra fine Spyderco bench stone, as I have no experience of it. But I will gladly concede that the amount of pressure used during the sharpening/honing stokes (on any abrasive surface) will produce a finer...

I think that O1, and other softer steels, on ceramic stones might be a good candidate for honing, edge trailing, a technique that Hoodoo mentioned in another thread a couple of weeks ago. I’ve tried the edge trailing method on a number of steel types since he mentioned it, and in my limited...

I know this question wasn't directed at me, but I noticed yesterday that the pocket stone seems to tear the wire edge somewhat on one of my very few O1 blades. I think the ceramics may be more suited to harder types of steel. Kind regards, Paul.

There’s an interesting discussion of the ‘grits’ of the Spyderco stones here (for those that don’t know, the forum member ‘sal’ is Mr Sal Glesser of Spyderco): http://spyderco.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31188 I'm very happy with my Double Stuff pocket...

Very nice, love the grind on that. Best regards, Paul.

Very nice work indeed, Mr D. And I didn't know about the uneven ground and the three legs thing, Eric. Thank you for that. Best regards, Paul.

I’m of a similar height and build to you, Dan. I’ve tried a large size on and I found it a little too close fitting (this was a newer version that had, according to the manufacturer, 25% more fabric in it than a previous version). The XL size has just the right amount of extra room that suits...

I like a little straight faced irony, too :D And thanks to Carl for giving me something new to try, namely, filleting a sheet of paper :D Cheers, Paul.

Lovely stuff :D Thanks, Paul.

I'll second KNC's suggestion about reading all the sharpening tutorials at the top of the Edged Tools forum, first. Without knowing what knife you have and what sharpening stone you have, it's pretty much impossible to offer any meaningful help, Chris. Best regards, Paul.

That caused me to do some backtracking, and I visited some sites I haven't read in a long time. Interesting stuff, and nice refresher for the memory, too. As a result, the shopping list got a little longer :) Kind regards, Paul.