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[Dan Earp]

Good

 

 

No you don't, just buy the file and learn to use it, using guides will de skill you or you will never learn the skills

 

How will it? Out in the field id still hand sharpen, and i think im fine on both

[treequip]

How will it? Out in the field id still hand sharpen, and i think im fine on both

 

Its all hand sharpening guide or no guide.

 

Learning to sharpen with a guide will lead to people who cant do

it without a guide, and one day they wont have a guide...........

[TGB]

5.2 is something 64ths .......

5.2mm = 13/64"

[Stubby]

5.2mm = 13/64"

 

Yep , thanks . Could not remember and could not be arsed to work it out last night !

[TGB]

Yep , thanks . Could not remember and could not be arsed to work it out last night !

I cheated, I just typed 5.2mm into an online converter. It also equals 0.0056868yds - I also asked it to convert to miles but it coughed up yards. Now there's 1,760 yards to the mile and 1,609.344 yards to the km. So that makes a waste of ink & paper if anyone's interested to work it out. Or 5mins. of head scratching with a calculator. Though why one would use a calculator to scratch one's head, is beyond me. Why not put down the device and use a digit or few?

 

 

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Edited November 27, 2013 by TGB

[Stubby]

I cheated, I just typed 5.2mm into an online converter. It also equals 0.0056868yds - I also asked it to convert to miles but it coughed up yards. Now there's 1,760 yards to the mile and 1,609.344 yards to the km. So that makes a waste of ink & paper if anyone's interested to work it out. Or 5mins. of head scratching with a calculator. Though why one would use a calculator to scratch one's head, is beyond me. Why not put down the device and use a digit or few?

 

 

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Would that digit be metric or imperial ??

[Rob D]

Its all hand sharpening guide or no guide.

 

Learning to sharpen with a guide will lead to people who cant do

it without a guide, and one day they wont have a guide...........

 

 

Is that so? - I use a guide all the time - still hand sharpen from time to time... using a guide actually gives you something to aim for when it comes to hand sharpening.

 

 

Using a guide has been the main way I've improved my sharpening over the last 3 years - hand sharpening is better than it's ever been....

[skyhuck]

Got to agree with treequip, best to learn to get it right just using a file, IMO.

[TGB]

Would that digit be metric or imperial ??

Depends when you born, where you were born and in what decade your brain is currently engaged in. I've just tried it and found I would normally use 4 fingers including my little finger; so I reckon approx. 3.75. Unless it's on the second Tues. of the month, in which case, it's about 3 3/4.

[Stubby]

Depends when you born, where you were born and in what decade your brain is currently engaged in. I've just tried it and found I would normally use 4 fingers including my little finger; so I reckon approx. 3.75. Unless it's on the second Tues. of the month, in which case, it's about 3 3/4.

 

Well I was born in 1953 and everything is still in " old money " Degrees F, bushels and groats and 10 chains to a furlong and 80 to the the mile ! .....