Thread: Hunter Element knife

All a steel does is straighten the edge. You can't sharpen a knife with it. Well; I suppose you technically could if your knife was completely buggered and you used the course steel that comes with many skinning knives etc. I always use as fine a steel as possible. And have often used super fine wet and dry sandpaper to make my steel even smoother.

As an aside; I worked with a butcher (the boss's son) who sharpened his knife with a coarse rat-tailed file.... When he was boning it sounded like he was using a wood rasp on the bone! Well; being the boss's son, he was a complete jerk. I can still remember the day I got back to work after my lunch to see the other apprentice using the son's knife to cut through the concrete back step in retribution for something that had gone down. Funny thing is that the son never noticed any difference to his knife's sharpness!