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Steve Kramer does a lot of writing on various forums about sharpening and in particular about how to make the perfect strop. Now for the first time most of his advice has been curated into a single blog post that can be found below. Since following his method of casing leather before making a...

The finest stone I have is a Shapton 2k. From there I usually just go to my Dialux green coated strop. I was about to get a 5k stone but then came across this range of pastes from Tech Diamond Tools. I had a lot of unused strops and I figure that for $21 for three syringes of paste (4k, 8k, 50k)...

I don't usually need much of an excuse to make a fresh batch of biltong. But I have a tradition to always initiate a new knife on biltong!

We have many inexpensive kitchen knives. I have eventually managed to persuade my wife to never again use a serrated knife in the kitchen. My job is to just make sure that the others are always sharp. I enjoy sharpening so not a problem. She just does not want to have to keep on asking me to...

Hi there! Many of you read the blog article I posted last year about my biltong methods and many of you contacted me for tips and help. No doubt you all have been enjoying the fruits of your labor! Many also liked the blog but found it too much hassle to gather the components to build the dryer...

A friend of mine decided to build his own pool table, from scratch. Among other woods he used birds eye maple, wenge, purple heart etc. Using the offcuts he made me this board. Not end grain yet but I hope to take it back to him and to turn it into an end grain board. I have been treating it...

Thanks to all of you here I eventually bought a Shapton 2k as the next step after my Norton India IB8. I also made 2 strops one with green compound and one with white compound. I am still learning freehand sharpening but I have been very happy with this progression so far.

It took forever but I eventually ventured into free hand sharpening using the IB8 Norton India stone. After some practice it looks like I am able to get a fairly decent edge. This Norton India with mineral oil has served me well and going from the fine 320 grit to the strop has given me decent...

Way back in the day, living in Rhodesia, my dad had a carborundum stone in a wooden case. For old times sake I decided to make one out of walnut with a thick rubber base for my stone. At the same time made up a new strop. That's my little honey badger ball bearing flipper on top. Happy New Year...

This is very popular in South Africa and many restaurants there incorporate it into salads. Some of the steak houses even make their own and offer it for sale. This is a batch that I prepared over night in the fridge and that I hung this morning. It's air dried meat which has been left to soak...

Hello all, First real post here and with all of you folks talking about your high end Japanese knives I feel a little intimidated asking this here but I want advice from the experts! I have played with and collected knives for years, enjoy sharpening both basic and higher end steel and spend...

Hi All, Made my first and last knife many years ago, I just did not have the skill. However I have a nice collection of mainly custom made field knives. I really do appreciate a nice sharp knife in the kitchen but I have no fancy ones yet. Let's see how it goes once influenced by all of...