so gents-and ladies too-what's your personal favorite weapon?

Unless you’re a knife sharpening god, you’ll never put a TRUE razor-sharp edge on anything with the type of grinding you mentioned in your first post.

My two sharpening systems are a TS Prof K03 and a Tormek T8. I wish I had the dexterity/touch to be able to manually sharpen blades effectively using stones, but I don’t. The only part of the sharpening process that I’m good at is leather stropping (which doesn’t take much skill). Originally Posted by Bowser98

good to know sir! maybe i will try your system to compare and contrast. by the way, i am certainly no god! i saw a vid with the guy holding his axe in his left hand and sharpening with a diamond blade on his grinder in his right. not my 1st choice by a long shot! he may be the god you speak of..

my rule of thumb on working with anything dangerous is that if you feel anything less than gangsta-as in, i own this bitch-then either a. go back to school; or b. abandon your operation. i never got a comfort level on a skilsaw (circular saw) i bought, so i sold the bitch instead of going back to school. am i a wuss? yup. do i care? nope.

actually i can get the same functionality with my grinder using:
a. clamps;
b. the correct blade for what you're doing;
c. tape; and
d. a pretty steady hand, but no match for Haphaestos' godly hand..

Sharpening anything takes a lot of practice.
Slightly incorrect and a nice edge can be forever ruined.
On large items, overheating with a power grinder is a common ruinous error.

As Bowser alludes to, proper equipment is required.
I have a water cooled grinder also.

What about your bear spray, OP?

What about your bear spray, OP? Originally Posted by Slitlikr

best weapon for dicey situations. you can end threats quickly without paperwork or court hearings. overall, though, i still prefer my well-sharpened titanium battle axe. what about you?

My go to weapon for fun and home defense is my G Force GF-12 AR with the extended magazine that holds 8 rounds of 3" buckshot. Basically it's a shotgun that looks like an AR and is fun as hell to fire. My second go to, just think Dirty Harry and his S and W model 29 44 magnum.


https://gforcearms.com/firearms/semi...otguns/gf12ar/

To px: the last thing I’ll add is that titanium sucks as a blade steel. It’s brittle, very difficult to sharpen, and dulls quickly.

To px: the last thing I’ll add is that titanium sucks as a blade steel. It’s brittle, very difficult to sharpen, and dulls quickly. Originally Posted by Bowser98

it works pretty well for me.

good shit Dear John.

best weapon for dicey situations. you can end threats quickly without paperwork or court hearings. overall, though, i still prefer my well-sharpened titanium battle axe. what about you? Originally Posted by pxmcc

I have more firearms than Carter Country.
My favorite is the S&W Victory, suppressed.
I use it daily around my place for dispatching trapped coyotes and other vermin.
I also use an old Case XX Bowie knife all the time, that I keep scary sharp, for keeping trails cleared of yaupon, etc.

^^totally off topic-UC point me if you muste, as any grumpy af and sexually frustrated male african elephant would-but how many acres do you own on your homestead/main ranch, and how far is it from say downtown htown?
(here's my guess: 500 acres, 3 miles, and your brother has a surname of hunt..)

impressive armory!
sounds like coyotes and wild hogs-they taste delicious when soaked in a white wine and papain marinade for about 3 days and then grilled over mesquite-would do well to give your premises quite the wide berth..

i'm a city slicker-med center condo dweller-and about the most exotic wild animal we have is the occasional mischevious raccoon. fun fact: those fuckers can climb a sheer wall with zero problem. i bet those buggers could free solo yosemite's half dome in their sleep..

i saw 2 of them torturing and maybe trying to kill and eat a cat-my hoa lets feral cats chill and reproduce in our complex-but the poor feline used one of his 9 lives when he made his impressive, houdini-like escape.

funny looking possum also have taken a hankering to our complex. i was deciding between my wrist rocket and my cross bow (my hoa takes great umbrage on the use of any S&W)-2 more weapons deserving honorable mention-to take one out to use as an abundant source of bait for braes bayou's abundant and delicious channel cats, when i realized his face was so ugly-only a mother could love-i had to have some mercy on his pathetic self. plus possum, ugly tho they be, have quite a bit of personality. i've had more than 1 run parallel to me-sort of a form of drafting like cyclists use-when they realized that no one and nothing was going to impede my forward progress on a bayou walk at 3am. cracked me tf up..

and no, bowser, i did not slay him with my battle axe. shame shame. with neither possum nor channel cat as fare, i went to bed hungry, which is the fate that anyone showing mercy to any animal constituting fresh, free range game should suffer..

one last question: how do you prefer sharpen your bad mofo bowie knife? that issue has-surprisingly-gotten quite a bit of play in this thread, and do any weapons of titanium or titanium alloy? if no, maybe i'm the only loser who thinks titanium is pretty legit..

https://www.worksharptools.com/shop/...sharpener-mk2/

^^i dont think bowser or i are going to have anything to say about that bad boy..

^^i dont think bowser or i are going to have anything to say about that bad boy.. Originally Posted by pxmcc

Funny, because I actually have one. It’s “child’s play” compared to using diamond stones on the TS Prof (which is a $900 system made in Russia), but I use the Worksharp, sans guide, for touching up my “work” hatchets and shovels. The flex of the belt works fairly well for a convex edge grind, as opposed to the hollow grind of a wheel like that on the Tormek. I particularly don’t like the Worksharp for my finer knives, as the guides collect steel powder residue, which leads to unwanted scuffs on the blades.