What's everyone up to right now?

[Fireball]

I have a leather strop for my carving tools, but I've found that the kind of cardboard used for cereal boxes works great when charged with a good abrasive. My abrasive is chromium oxide. I will note that I use the Smith's knife sharpening kit with the guides, and diamond plates. I don't bother to strop the kitchen knives.

[brewer]

I have a leather strop for my carving tools, but I've found that the kind of cardboard used for cereal boxes works great when charged with a good abrasive. My abrasive is chromium oxide. I will note that I use the Smith's knife sharpening kit with the guides, and diamond plates. I don't bother to strop the kitchen knives.

Still working with my old wet stone from the 60's.

[Angrboda]

Having an adventure.

A thunderstorm came through here and we lost power for about a minute. Whenever I lose power, the Amazon-branded smart plug in one of the living room lamps has to be completely set up again, including any routines/programs that reference that plug. The Kasa plugs seem to remember their settings, so those don't have to be fixed when the power goes out. So, I had a spare Kasa plug, and the Amazon plug was being fidgety, so I figure now is a good time to swap out the Amazon plug. I do that, only to discover that the lamp isn't responding. Apparently the power surge killed the LED bulb in it. I had purchased a two-pack of bulbs last fall, but I had no clue where they were stored. So I spent 20 minutes just finding them. So I go to screw in the new bulb, and it's not starting for some reason. After a couple of minutes of trying, I take the bulb out and look at it. There's a plastic cap covering the threads that I had neglected to remove. D'oh!

Oh well. All better. And my computer got updated when I restarted it.

[Angrboda]

Watching baseball. I think I'm done for the day.

[Silver]

Got a call from "Scam Likely". Haven't heard from her in a while.

[Angrboda]

I think I'm leaning towards the Sharpal diamond stone now. The problem is grit contamination on the fine side of cheap stones. Sharpal is much higher quality and has great customer service. You get nickel and dimed trying to go cheap.

[brewer]

Being wrong for 60 years, damn. What the 'h'?

[pocaracas]

I think I'm leaning towards the Sharpal diamond stone now.  The problem is grit contamination on the fine side of cheap stones.  Sharpal is much higher quality and has great customer service.  You get nickel and dimed trying to go cheap.

That one seems amazing!
I think I'll get one of those when mine goes bad, in a few years
Thanks for doing so much research on this.

[Rev. Rye]

Getting ready for the trip up to Wisconsin, which starts tomorrow. Nervous about a couple things, but at least there’s one worry that’s just been defeated: the copy of Kafka on the Shore I bought a bit less than a month ago, which spent over two weeks in limbo in Secaucus, New Jersey, has finally arrived.

[brewer]

Waiting for Biden.