Sharpening Shastar - Can we use a pull through? Weapon Care - Q&A #3

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there's one uh method which is uh this

is tedious but there's a

lazier method that you can get it's

those uh

it looks like a handle almost you hold

on to and it's called a pull through

knife sharpener

i personally don't like those because if

you

if you've seen the geometry on a kerpan

from the spine it tapers

and that really does not translate well

with that because the

the angle of the edge is not consistent

it varies from like this

from the base to like super thin on the

tip

so when you're when you're doing a pull

through knife sharpening

it's not keep it's not keeping the same

consistent angle all the way through

and it puts a really bad edge on it it's

uh

they've done like my you know like

zoomed in micro studies it

those are the worst type of sharpeners

best thing you can do

is just practice a lot with a stone this

is

it stays consistent it's usually flat

and then you just have to get the angle

down

and the motion repeatedly