BYXCO "Black Magic" 2x4 Honing Plate Featured The full flat ground blade

The full flat ground blade is of true taper

and any other target that would be prone towards slipping off the edge of a conventional blade

A clip point

yet quality affordable options are surprisingly difficult to find

The attractive olivewood scales are simultaneously understated and classy

BYXCO "Black Magic" 2x4 Honing Plate Featured The full flat ground bladeExperts agree that the secret to achieving exceptionally keen edges is a crisp, clean apex, and that this is easiest to produce using a hard, fine stone. The Black Magic honing plate is an exceptionally hard stone, both in composition and structure, and produces the crisp apex that's so strongly desired in a finished edge on cutting tools of all sorts. Best used with light pressure in the final strokes of the sharpening process or for light