What Do You Use To Sharpen Your Plug Cutting Knife?

I use an Arkansas stone, for regular knives , lansky puck for ax and bastard file to finish on the ax.

I go up to 4000.
Here is a twin on my plug knife

After sharpening knives and re-profiling knife geometry for years, I use the following grit sizes of Japanese Chosera Waterstones with natural quaried Nagura stones:

800
2000
5000

Followed by stropping on a DLT XL 2-sided strop, DLT black compound side followed by DLT white compound.

Scary Sharp.

CW

Threadsurrection!

Having said the above to bambooshank , I have come to the conclusion that Bambooshank was righter than me. The belt driven unit has it's place, it can quickly give you an edge to face the task at hand, when daily cutting shrink wrap, etc.

But...you lose the edge quickly.

I recently bought the Norton Tri-hone, and I think that the progressiveness of the stones, deliver an edge that will last much longer than a swipe across the electrically driven belts.

I suppose that both have their place, but if I was to buy just one sharpening system, I would go with the tri-hone, and getting the correct angle is far from rocket science....there is wiggle room in that regard. I was previously informed by watching butchers in the meat industry, that spent a lot of time getting their knives to surgical grade cutting instruments. They worked in refrigerated rooms and spent 8 to 10 hours cutting meats with constant pressure on the wrist...do that for 20-30 years, and carpal tunnel is not going to be your friend!

And if you lived near John, the frozen plug shatters like tempered glass!

Probably not much longer.