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My other stone or tri hone. U use water. Works good. But this angle guide lansky sharpener for angle on knecker knife , not want any screwups on it. Afterward. I put new bur on edge. Important if for scrape hides. U don't want holes in pelt

It's semi off topic, but the only thing that I have ever needed to keep my Necker sharp was a few passes with the backside of my skinning knife.
Use it like a steel on the sharp side and just clean off the square side.

It's semi off topic, but the only thing that I have ever needed to keep my Necker sharp was a few passes with the backside of my skinning knife.
Use it like a steel on the sharp side and just clean off the square side.

Like Finster, my Norton 3 stone uses mineral oil. Pores are great but unfortunately my stones are all cupped due to mostly being used for chisels and plane blades.

Pete

Get a large coarse diamond stone (wider and longer than your sharpening stone) and use it to flatten your sharpening stone. Basically all you have to do is submerge the diamond stone under water and run your sharpening stone over it until it is flat. If you do it often it does not take that long.

Coonman: Use whatever you have on hand. Any thin oil or soapy water will work just fine. You are not using it every day. Just clean the stone with hot soapy water when you are done. Rinse with hot water.

Soapy water is same as lite oil ? The lansky with angle guides. The stones are very small, maybe 1 inch by half inch, 5 stones. From extra course to ultra fine , run back side of quality knife across knecker sharp edge, on back side, opposite the angle, is to keep the bur on edge, I understood. I learn all this stuff about bur on edge. At nafa fur handling demo at nta convention, before then, no bur. Just sharpen, the bur is to protect pelt from holes. The sharpener. Does not create a bur on edge, u use back side knife to do that.

Coonman, you should go to a knife show. I have been to one in Harrisonburg,VA. There was a man @ the knife show that sharpened knives, he could tell you all about knife sharpening. Do you you have Knife shows in Iowa?

I have a small, 6 oz. or so, squirt can of Marvel Mystery Oil. Best honing oil I have used. And when I can't find it I get out a quart container of automatic transmission fluid. I suspect that is what Marvel Mystery Oil is anyway. Both are thin and don't clog your stone and both kind of smell good.

Coonman,and others,the NAFA beaver video has a good section on the correct way to sharpen a fleshing knife.That Howell fella explains it real good.

I sharpen knecker good today, an got hone oil, exactly stuff that came with lansky, put a new bur on edge blade with back Dexter easily, when u do this, it like ur try dull blade. By metal of back knife blade , against sharp edge. On back side to roll over an a bur. It seems like it dulls the knife, I did it in 2 passes , I still don't see how the bur proctects pelt from holes an don't it dull the sharp edge after sharpening, when put bur on edge ?

Sewing machine oil.

Treadle sewing machine oil or electric sewing machine oil?

I believe it was liter. Oil than that , enough for lifetime an then some for $4.95