Sharpening in the Wild

[Sparky415]

Some interesting ideas
      

[Zed]

Very interesting tony  there was a few things there I didn't know,

[Sparky415]

Yep, Things I had never thought about before but made a lot of sense 

[Zed]

I did make a strop out of a old belt but didn't know you needed paste   

[Sparky415]

I did make a strop out of a old belt but didn't know you needed paste   

One can be used without paste or polishing compound but is very very fine 

I knew that you can use all sorts of stuff including toothpaste but mud had never occurred to me 

[stealth007s]

The car window idea was very interesting.

[Heinz Doofenshmirtz]

Ray Mears does this thing where you take quartz pebbles and smash them up as finely as you can, then make them into a paste with some water, and smear it on a batonned stick.  You use the flat edge of the stick with the quartz paste as the abrasive surface to sharpen.

[David]

My favorite line was "put that garbage to good use" when talking about if find cardboard in the bush.     

[Heinz Doofenshmirtz]

My favorite line was "put that garbage to good use" when talking about if find cardboard in the bush.     

+1!

In all the survival skills classes I've taken, they've repeated two things over and over... one is to try and have anything you carry with you have multiple uses, the other is simply 'one man's trash is another man's treasure'...  just about any found object can have some kind of use if you're imaginative enough!