[TheForge] Re: Knife sharpening

[Mike Spencer]

Walter <wmullett22 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Has anyone seen a plowshare sharpened on a little giant power hammer?   

At the 1976 ABANA conference in Carbondate, an elderly [1] black man
from somewhere in the southern US demonstrated doing that.  It looked
awkward but he got it done in short order.  When the applause was over,
he whipped out a Bible and began to preach us an evangelical sermon.

> I understand there was some sort of tooling used for this but I have 
> never seen anything on it.

He didn't have any special tooling that I remember.


[1] Elderly: Probably about the same age as I am now. But he *looked*
    older than I do. ;-)

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