My Grand dads honing steel knife sharpener

[rob-c]

My mom passed back in May and with covid backing everything up,  we finally got the family together to go through my parents house. We came across my grand dads honing steel.   I remember my grand dad using it so many times  when he, my dad and my uncles would cut up deer to address the knife blades . It was passed to my dad and he / we used often ourselves . I hadn’t seen it in many years,  so glad my mom kept it. I don’t know if you can see but it’s pretty much smooth now from being used so much. It’s hanging in my garage/ work shop now. 

Edited December 14, 2020 by rob-c

[Farflung]

we used a similar one, but with a plain handle

[suburbanfarmer]

My father passed away this yr in October and I kept his tools just to hang in my barn.

Mementos for sure.

[crappyice]

I love “functional” mementos!


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[ny hunter]

Thats very cool........

[Otto]

I love little mementos like that to remember people who have passed.  Every time you look at them or use them it is like they are still there with you.  Something nice to hang onto.  I hope your kids will feel the way you do many many years from now.

[Pygmy]

I had one very similar to that and used it for years...It is probably still in a drawer up in my ex-wife's house somewhere...

[The_Real_TCIII]

No one can dull a knife faster than me with one of those bad boys


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[Pygmy]

2 minutes ago, The_Real_TCIII said:

No one can dull a knife faster than me with one of those bad boys


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You need a smooth STROKE, with the proper LATERAL action....

Didn't any of your old girlfriends tell you that  ??

[rob-c]

11 minutes ago, The_Real_TCIII said:

No one can dull a knife faster than me with one of those bad boys


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Right there with you, my dad could free hand sharpen a knife with the best. Me nope, I bought a electric sharpener. 

[left field]

Nice. I rehung one of my grandfather’s hammers and used it to put a new roof on a garage. 

Told my 17-year-old nephew that it would be his someday and he looked at me blankly. “What would I do with a hammer?” 
 

 

[Daveboone]

I have a hammer I fondly recall dad using, and how it was his grandpas....couldnt understand why it still hadnt learned to bang a nail strait. It depresses me to think no one else in the family would have any thoughts for it. I would love to set up a vintage tool box with all the generations old tools I have for someone else to appreciate, but I fear it would be a wasted effort.

[left field]

I tried to explain to him that tools have memory of the work they've done and the hands that wielded them and this was a direct connection to his great grandfather. No luck. 

I also have my grandfather's safety razor for when the little thug starts shaving.