Something that carries in a sheath, separate or connected to our favorite knife sheath

I generally won't be "sharpening" my knives in the field. I try to be extremely careful with my edges, but sometimes things happen. For those instances I have a Lansky pull through sharpener that'll be enough to get me home to do it right.

Otherwise, I take a paint stirrer, cut it short, glue strops to both sides, and load them with stropping compound. They're small, light, and will fit in a shirt pocket or pants pocket. It's a quick easy way to keep an edge.

A little compact worksharp or a small strop.

Spyderco Double Stuff in a homemade sheath w/strop attached.(idea stolen from some guy on YT years ago)

I have a couple of favorites for emergency field sharpeners. If the edge is really dull after hard use then I prefer the DMT folding diamond sharpener with coarse/fine sides. For light maintenance I have one of the Spyderco pocket stones. It's a ceramic stone (you can get fine or medium grit or dual sided depending on how much you want to spend). It comes in a leather pocket pouch which can be used as a strop.

Link to Fallkniven DC4

I have used this for over 12 years now. I don't use it often because I sharpen my tools with a TSPro on my bench before heading outdoors. I use it mostly when I mess up an edge on stones or when doing something I shouldn't have done with a knife. Often my friends need some help with their tools while camping. It sees more use in helping them.

It's small but big enough to do real work. I have no regrets with it.

Just saw this little sharpener from Work Sharp. Looks pretty interesting. Work Sharp field sharpener

The knife equivalent of a New York reload.

Another knife.

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Originally posted by jhe888:
The knife equivalent of a New York reload.

Another knife.

This works the best, I found the second knife wasn’t much heavier than the sharpener.

Man wants light, fast and sharp? Look no further than Havalon. I’m only slightly ashamed to admit I am using the hell out of mine. 2 blades quarters an elk start to finish.

I've got a benchmade field sharpener that I'm pretty sure is jut a branded Work Sharp Field sharpener.

Simple ceramic rod.

I've got a DMT Diamond stone that's same size and thickness as a credit card. I can just slip it into my wallet with my other cards and have an really fast and easy touch up sharpener with me at all times.

DMT credit card diamond sharpener

I usually carry a 320 grit piece of sand paper in my bill fold, haven't rally needed it, but it pays to be prepared!

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Originally posted by CD228:
I've got a benchmade field sharpener that I'm pretty sure is jut a branded Work Sharp Field sharpener.

Unless I am mistaken, the Benchmade version has a ceramic rod and strop strip. The new Worksharp has a ceramic and diamond plate.
https://www.worksharptools.com...ding-field-sharpener
Fallkniven has a diamond/ceramic version of the DMT diafold.
https://fallkniven.se/en/knife...-YpRPt&cn-reloaded=1
I’m going to pick both of them up. I think a ceramic for touch up is better than the DMT.