gransfors puck

[jasons]

do any of you use the gransfors sharpening puck and how do you get on with it.

 

[Squidders]

love them... brilliant idea and so easy to use.

I have some nice bench stones, DC3 and 4 and none manage to get my axes as sharp as borrowing a friends GB puck

I may actually splash out and get one at the end of the month

 

[jasons]

love them... brilliant idea and so easy to use.

I have some nice bench stones, DC3 and 4 and none manage to get my axes as sharp as borrowing a friends GB puck

I may actually splash out and get one at the end of the month

do you use it wet or dry

 

[xairbourne]

I had one with my axe and I find it excellent, I always get a razor sharp edge with it. If I take my axe I take my stone.

 

[Squidders]

do you use it wet or dry

I spit on it if that's an answer?

 

[jasons]

I spit on it if that's an answer?

cheers

 

[ScottC]

Yeah, very easy to use and worth it - I spit on mine too.

 

[British Red]

The axe and diamond files are good too. The three together really are portable and give a fine edge!

Red

 

[oetzi]

Jason, you beat me to it with your posting as I wanted to write a recommendation for the Gransfors puck.
I own one since one year, after some hesitation about the price.
It is used for sharpening the axes and works very well. The rubber casing makes it transportable and also protects the fingertips when sliding the stone over/against the edge in circular motions
The fine side is quite fine, about 1000 (compared with a japanese waterstone), the coarse is still not that coarse at about 600. Both figures are just a guess, someone else might know better.
So its possible to get -in the field- a paper-slicing edge on an axe with this stone, but removing bigger nicks would be very time consuming.
I also started using the puck for sharpening my knives. Out of pure boredom yesterday I used it to sharpen a 10cm, 12C27 blade from Brusletto and it works ok. I could do only small circular movements along the edge, so a bit more concentration was needed to work the whole lenght of the edge equally and it took longer.
But it did sharpen the blade and so this GB puck will become the constant companion in my pack and be used to re-sharpen everything in the fiel:d, axe, puukko, Leuku.
Highly recommended!!!

 

[Buckshot]

I like them
I have a bucket of water I use with them. Keep them wet they work very well.
Tried it dry but it clogs very quickly

 

[falling rain]

I've had my GB Axe puck for about 3 years and use it regularly. Great bit of kit very useful. They are supposed to be used wet. I soak mine in my billy for a few minutes and touch up my knife with it in the field too.

 

[Thorfinn]

Thies may sound daft but could you use the puck on your knife. Is it not just anormal sharpening stone. I just don't like the idea of carryin two stones when you could just carry one.

 

[bambodoggy]

I've had my GB Axe puck for about 3 years and use it regularly. Great bit of kit very useful. They are supposed to be used wet. I soak mine in my billy for a few minutes and touch up my knife with it in the field too.

I just use copious amounts of spit on mine.....but that's coz I'm a grubby little boy lol

As Nick says; a great bit of kit

Cheers,

Bam.

 

[Squidders]

Hey, I said great bit of kit too

And, yes, they can be used for knives, chisels, scissors but unfortunately not my wit