How To Use A Scythe Stone
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- How to use a scythe stone, a.k.a. canoe stone, to hone various edged tools. This style of stone is incredibly versatile and deserves much more widespread appreciation! We use these for almost all of our sharpening tasks around the homestead.
Visit us at www.BaryonyxKnife.com for a selection of these stones, as well as a wide range of other useful tools!
My dad past away years ago and left me his scythe stone and now I know what it's for and how to use it. Thank you!
Ok now I feel more confident in sharpening my scythe. Lots of experienced people sharpen so fast, it's hard to replicate properly.
Got the scythe today and enjoyed a swath already :)
Homework and work work now have serious competition for my attention!
Excellent video. I have to get one of these stones for use with the Baryonyx machete that you just sent to me. I love that machete, I've decided to carry it to the woods instead of my chopper and axe .
you had me right up till i saw the cat eating grass. then i got lost
Great vid, Benjamin!
Oh, nice hat, too.
Thanks! And that's my trusty bona-fide pith helmet made of real sola pith. You soak it in water and it absorbs it like a sponge (yet retains its shape) and the evaporative effect keeps you nice and cool during hot weather like we often have here in the summer. It's a piece of summer gear I couldn't be without. :)
www.villagehatshop.com/product/pith-helmets/451139-6070/village-hat-shop-french-pith-helmet.html
At the time of this posting they seem to be out of my khaki colored one.
3:45 - A wild calico appears!
Glad to hear that the Baryonyx Machete is working well for you, RadicatTat! I really love mine, but obviously I'm a bit biased since it was designed for my own needs! :)
For some reason RUclips isn't letting me directly comment on your post right now. Please pardon the detached response!
I have one of those sickles
Thank you for your video
i would trust you with my life
For some reason I didn't expect your voice to be so youthful! I always that you would have sounded like most of the country folk i meet up in New England. You do have the perfect inflections of a auditory teacher though! Are you from Maine originally?
Hahaha--Mainer born and raised! But while I can affect a classic Maine accent with ease, it's not my default conversational voice. :D
Is it really necessary to use the wrist sweeping motion? Why not just run the whetstone along the blade, so long as you're using the correct side of the stone, it should give that hollow grind, right?
You can use the flat face, but it will be functionally the same as using an American pattern scythe stone but with lowered consistency and control of your stroke pressure and therefore burr management. Simply drawing the curved face down the length will produce a constantly broadening contact angle and rapidly round over and thicken your edge, and will actually produce a convex edge of too thick of an angle. A rolling action of the wrist is *necessary* when using the curved face of the stone if you wish to avoid prematurely rendering your edge too thick.
@@FortyTwoBlades Interesting. Thank you!
Hello. I used to be on a scything forum with you but it disappeared? Is there another?
Thanks for the video and your time.
SerenityMiya2009 Hello! Check out the Scything Improvers' Forum on Facebook for a good active community, including many of the crew that had been at the old forum.
facebook.com/groups/643393295735728/
FortyTwoBlades Thank you
LOL, you look nothing like what I have visualized. I hadn't thought to much about it, but in my mind I saw an older guy in his 60s with short grey hair, maybe ex military, selling and making blades out of the shop over his garage, semi-professionally. I recently bought a few forward curved blades from you; not impressed with the Falci billhook, because the method they fix the handle the shaft is weak. They just stick the shaft through a hollow-drilled wooden handle and then bend the end over to 90deg to make it stay. As soon as I started using it the metal starts to unbend and the handle came loose, and you can't easily use a billhook that is flopping around everywhere. Trying to figure out a way to fix the handle on more securely (haven't had any problems at all with the Falci mararessi though, those see to be very well built). Loved the Angleo B. billhook, but I somehow managed to loose the damn thing in less than a week. If you get any more in stock I'd gladly buy another. Although I might just give that Baryonyx machete a try. That's close to what I've been looking for. I want a "hedger's billlhook", with a 16-18" flat broad blade, one side sharped with a slight swelling belly and the other with a small billhook like your machete (basically what your machete is, except the billhook I had in mind has a handle roughly 18" long for balance and for two handed use).
The wood of the handle may have shrunk a bit on you. You can tighten that up either by unbending the tang, removing the handle, and slapping a different one on there yourself (I suggest pre-boring a hole a little smaller than the end of the tang, and then heating the tang and burning it into the hole for a perfect fit) or by wedging a couple of D-shaped lengths (lengthwise-sawn dowels, for instance) of the appropriate size into the empty space. They unfortunately flip-flop between using the wood handles with the overly large pre-bored hole or using stacked leather (which is totally secure) and I have no way of specifying which to them. :)
What kind of pocket knife are you carrying in this video? Is it something you may possibly sell on your website? Thanks!
Oh that's a CHEAP little slipjoint made by MAC Cutlery of Italy. I carry it most days along with my CS Pocket Bushman. They're solidly built but only made of 440 stainless (and I don't mean 440C or 440A, but just straight 440) and they often come with burnt edges and/or the tip riding above the scales when closed. I may carry them in the shop at some point but they really do take a fair amount of tuning up to be usable. Great little beater once it's fixed up though.
Do you not use anything after the stone? In Sweden in olden days a slick flat piece of hardwood with a handle later with sand (silicon) or emery (corundite) adhered was used, like a long large piece of nail file (emery board).verktygsboden.se/lieslipstickor/liesticka
A flat/round leather clad stick with (fine) valve polishing compound could maybe be used today. About a hundred years ago or earlier the compound on the sticks where grit from whetstones and the sticks had small pits to catch it when dipped in a cow horn in the field. digitaltmuseum.se/011023861030/?name=Liesticka&advanced_search=1&pos=6&count=8
EattinThurs61 When used on scythe blades, we commonly use a bare wooden oval stick much like the one in your lower link, but without pits of any kind. It does an excellent job of aligning any microscopic burr on the edge. This video was only on the many different uses for scythe stones, but we plan on eventually doing a video demonstrating scythe edge maintenance ranging from grinding to final honing.
Are you a fountain pen collector too? I see the imprint of a nib of a fountain pen on your shirt.
No, though I appreciate them. However, it's a visual play on the old "the pen is mightier than the sword" phrase. The cutout of the nib forms a sword, and with the red shirt the negative space at its tip looks like a drop of blood while the nib, in black, has a drop of ink coming from its tip.
FortyTwoBlades
I appreciate fountain pens too - especially the ones that are rare and are appraised at several thousand dollars by collectors. :)
wow. he's very informative but sounds like such a nerd
Guilty as charged. ;)