Bushcraft Knives: Field Sharpening & Stropping Kit

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Sharpening and stropping your knives while out on the trail may be necessary at times. Stropping more so as this maintains a knife edge and will save you from having to sharpen it on a stone for some time. At home a whetstone and large strop may be the tools of choice but they can be large and heavy, in the field you will need some thing smaller, more compact but with the same capabilities.

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Video Transcription

hi there guys it's Mike from mcq bushcraft here and welcome to another video in this video I wanted to show you a piece of equipment that I've modified or changed just to make my knife sharpening and stropping kit a little bit more versatile one thing you can take for granted is a flat surface at home and if you're carrying a bit of equipment that never really requires a flat surface to be used on in terms of the strop anyway then it kind of eliminates you having to either make one or find one in the field and it really is something you can take for granted especially if you're moving along you don't have time to build things this is the bit of equipment just here that I've made you can see insides the stain and this is a Spyderco double stuff stain that I've been using for a little while now you see use a dc4 but gradually migrated over to this one it's a far more effective stone much finer better for honing a blade with just a little bit of work but it comes in its own page that isn't actually very effective as a strop the grain on the patch that it comes in is very very fast and if you're trying to strop on it you really want a bit of a finer grain on the strop you don't want you know big fluffy bits of suede all over the place all right it just doesn't make for a very effective strop so a slightly finer tighter grain is what we were looking for and I decided to make this case for it's simply just two bits of leather stitched together with a cutout there and then on top is glued an actual dedicated strop and it's elevated for a reason what you can do is just put the stone inside the actual case like that and you have a flat surface ready to use and the beauty of this raised portion to allows you to get all of the blade onto the actual strop you can go right to the edge of the edge of the choil there and strop all of the blade just like this and just with a little bit of stropping compound

it makes for a very very effective strop for just maintaining the knife in the field with the absence of a flat surface making one of these is really easy it's literally just a rectangle of leather stitched together to form a pouch and then you just glue on top a small rectangle for the strop to raise it up a little bit the type of leather used for the case isn't particularly important but the strop leather should be quite firm and have a very fine grain to it but I just simply took the stone and just measured out about four mil either side like this all the way around so I made the rectangle about four mil bigger either side than the stain and cut the sheets at two of them stitch them together down the side and then what you can do is actually wet them and put your stone in like this and then leave it to dry and they'll actually wet form around stone and create that compartment it'll always adhere to that shape and once stitched you can burnish the edges just by rubbing them with a bit of antler or something and just glue on your strop at the top and it just makes a really good pocket kit to carry on you where you've got your honing stain and a strop out in the field or something like a knife I just wanted to share that change with you it's very very simple but it can be pretty effective and if any of you've got stains out there around about this size it's a great little addition to make to it is having that stone in the case keeps you a hard flat surface at all times when stropping which is what you want well I hope you've enjoyed this video and I'll see you very soon for another one take care guys thanks again you