Friday, November 12, 2010

Finally, a decent sharpener

It's in the title.  I finally found a decent sharpening device for my swords.  For those of you who don't know, or think you know, but you don't;  You can't simply take a grinder to a blade.  You see, a (real) sword has a temper from being heat treated.  This keeps the blade strong while still flexible, to a point.  And if you just grind away at the blade with a spinning grinding stone, you'll ruin the temper, making your sword really really crappy.  So... this might give you an inkling of how long it took me to find a device that won't take three weeks to get the job done, but won't overheat your sword either.  And of all places, it was in Meijer.  How crazy is that?

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