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In the spirit of the best camera is the one you have on you right now, this DMT hone fits on a keychain. https://www.dmtsharp.com/sharpeners/pocket-sharpeners/

In the spirit of the best camera is the one you have on you right now, this DMT hone fits on a keychain. https://www.dmtsharp.com/sharpeners/pocket-sharpeners/mini-sharpr-sharpener.html https://www.dmtsharp.com/sharpeners/pocket-sharpeners/mini-s... I used to get by in a pinch with the bottom edge of a ceramic coffee cup but it’s nothing compared to having a properly flat and consistently abrasive stone on you. It struggles with anything longer than a steak knife but most times it’s a steak knife that needs licking up to an edge at the table of a well meaning but poorly equipped restaurant. I keep meaning to impregnate the inside of my belt with diamond wax so that it too functions as a field strop, though it’s a bit harder to be subtle in taking one’s belt off in public.

downut 3y ago
So this is a late comment but I finally clicked the link because I am a DMT addict, and lordy that's a cool thing that looks like it will travel just fine. Which do you find best for traveling? I travel with one of the big DMT fine hones but if I was resorting to something on my keychain maybe I want coarse? When I said I do a "quick repair" I meant I can't correct each knife with only a fine hone, but I can make them better. In that spirit maybe the optimal travel keychain hone size is coarse. Because I don't have all night, nobody else cares, and sharper is better than "prop knife", as another commenter mentioned. Very cool about the ceramics, I had not thought of that but since we have many crafty ceramics we know their abrasive properties and once you are given the idea huh that's obvious. Thank you!
- gorgoiler 3y ago
  You got it in one, spot on. The coarse will put an edge on a blunt instrument but you won’t be able to strop it. The fine hone isn’t aggressive enough but will produce an edge you can strop to a razor. I carry both, with the coarse blue on my keychain.

downut 3y ago

So this is a late comment but I finally clicked the link because I am a DMT addict, and lordy that's a cool thing that looks like it will travel just fine. Which do you find best for traveling? I travel with one of the big DMT fine hones but if I was resorting to something on my keychain maybe I want coarse? When I said I do a "quick repair" I meant I can't correct each knife with only a fine hone, but I can make them better. In that spirit maybe the optimal travel keychain hone size is coarse. Because I don't have all night, nobody else cares, and sharper is better than "prop knife", as another commenter mentioned. Very cool about the ceramics, I had not thought of that but since we have many crafty ceramics we know their abrasive properties and once you are given the idea huh that's obvious. Thank you!

gorgoiler 3y ago
You got it in one, spot on. The coarse will put an edge on a blunt instrument but you won’t be able to strop it. The fine hone isn’t aggressive enough but will produce an edge you can strop to a razor. I carry both, with the coarse blue on my keychain.