Knife sharpening

[fisherman]

About knives, since a little boy I have a small folding knife in my pocket, now a three inch Opinel; I am aware that I risk some problems but I would explain them it is a tool, not a weapon, hoping they would understand.

Good luck if you get nicked, I was told I was lucky not to be charged

 

[Sandy]

I got my knife confiscated when going into the local court, a four inch opinel. My protests about fifty years a fishermen were ignored.

There was a piece on radio about knife crime in Glasgow. the speaker had been going into schools explaining in gory detail what happens when you stab someone, and particularly should the knife hit an artery. One child raised a hand: "So, Miss, where is it safe to stab someone?"

I find the flap of skin between the thumb and forefinger is non lethal.

 

[Alicatt]

As I see here many knowing about sharpening, I have a question.

I inherited from my father in law a few oil stones, all embedded in wooden holders, that I use for shrpening woodworking tools, kitchen knifes and boat knife.
The problem is they all are not flat, but worn hollow in the central area. For planes and chisels the stone needs to be plane.
My question: is there some way of flattening them? Which could be the grinding agent? Rubbing two of them one against the other?

All advises welcome.

I have my grandfather's sharpening stones which are in wooden cases, he was the foreman joiner in the Argyll Motor Works at the beginning of the 20th century, and I have a cabinet full of chisels, planes and saws of all different sizes and shapes that used to belong to him.
My father started out as a pattern maker in Denny's Shipyard making the objects in wood that were later cast in metal.

An example of his handy work, this was originally a saloon car and he put the woody back on it, pic was taken in France in 1954

 

[Sandro]

Nice work.
This reminds me of my first car in the fifties: The Fiat 500 "Topolino" (little mouse) C station wagon that had wood and masonite panels.

Not my car photo. Mine was much more battered.