Ask Trader Dan       Contact       About       Take a tour
Sign in | Sign up
Lost your password?

Knife sharpening tips from Buck Knives
A sharp blade is safer than a dull one

KEEPING YOUR BLADE SHARP

Sharpen regularly

If all you ever need to do is touch up the blade, your knife will be far easier to maintain.

Stainless steel knives store well and maintain their edge for a long time. At Buck, we use stainless steel for all our blades, but not all knife makers do.

Tips for maintaining a sharp knife:

  • Keep your sharpener with your knives, so it’s easy to find and use.
  • Use your knife the way it was intended.
  • If it’s a chef’s knife, only cut food on a non-dulling surface like a nylon cutting board.
  • Not even work knives are meant for cutting through fence wire or other hard materials. Don’t try it.
  • Use common sense to avoid injury to yourself or damage to your knife.
  • Do not throw, pound, hammer, twist, pry or use with electronics.
  • Store your knife with care.
  • Protect the edge by keeping your Buck in its sheath.
  • Keep kitchen knives in a storage block or magnet.
  • Throwing knives in a drawer or just leaving them around will dull the edges.

Edge maintenance.

  • Dress or sharpen the edge as soon as you notice it’s not working as well as it should. You should only need a few single strokes side-to-side to bring the edge back to its original sharpness. If however, you have changed the edge or the bevel, which happens over time, follow Stage 1 or Stage 2 sharpening instructions.
  • Using the right sharpener for the job.
  • If your blade needs a touch up, the Stage 3 fine grit stone should do the trick. However, if the edge has truly dulled, go back to Stage 2, still using a fine grit stone. If the edge has rounded, return to Stage 1 and a course grit stone.

More Sharpening tips from Buck Knives

Also see the Buck Knive 4-Ever Warranty and Knife Maintenance.

Get Buck Knives in the CoTradeCo store

CotradeCo is proud to carry Buck Knives. You can find them in the Tools and Hardware > Knives and Multi-tools categories of the store.

You can always browse Buck Knives by brand in the brand section of our store as well.

Tell us your adventures with Buck Knives

We always want to hear how folks use the products we sell. Share you Buck Knife adventures in the Hardworking Folk or Outdoor Adventure community.

© 2007 CoTradeCo, Coachella Valley Packaging, & Coachella Valley Trading Company
are part of the Shorebird Corporation in partnership with [ i ] motion creative

Community content is all rights reserved © by the contibutor of that content granting
CoTradeCo some limited non-exclusive usage rights, see our policies.