I carried a 6 inch Ka-Bar knife for deer hunting that my dad gave me. I had a Buck sharpening kit so I proceeded to sharpen it. It took me half a day, but the quality of the steel was such that it held the edge for a long time.
There is an interesting additional story about this knife. Pop was pretty good friends with the owner of a local independent hardward store. One day Pop is in the store and the owner showed Pop three or four of the big Ka-Bar knives. The owner told Pop that the knives had gotten wet and that caused the finish on them to be spotted to the point that they could not be sold as new. The owner offered them to Pop for $5 apiece (something like 30 years ago). Pop looked at the knives and recalled that he used to carry knives that looked worse, so he bought them all. Pop gave one of them to me, and I'll never let go of it.
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