I have a flick-blade combat knife with an excellent blade and a very sharp edge. I use it for all kinda shi. It’s amazing. $21.68. Shoutout to my pals in Bryson city

lol I have knifes

Bruh it’s not difficult. I have a crappy old piece of leather I’ve used on my friends’ knives as well as my own display pieces. Specifically because I couldn’t get a good river stone. Have you tried ceramic tile?

One more thing, twist aluminum foil into the basic size of a pencil and put it in your pwncil sharpener and sharpen if you want to sharpen your blades on the sharpener. Seriously it works wonders

Do you have a knife, a file. A razor blade. An exacto knife, or some sandpaper?
So i am an artist and i have many times been without a pencil shsrpener and break my lead or dull it (unless im doing shadowing or shade work or another some method that requires that there are no sharp or solid lines), then i want a very sharp lead when i have a sketchpad in my hands for sketching and the last thing im thinking about is a pencil sharpener when i go somewhere but i never go anywhere without at least a pencil and sketchpad because i need to keep my hands busy always. When i dont have a sharpener, i know i can use any of the listed items ive provided and more. Concrete a car window edge or a rock can also be used to grind down the wood casing around the lead and sharpens the lead well too. Sandpaper even works amazing to keep your lead tuned in sharp. Carry an emory board, a razor knife and even a nylon strap in your glove box and youll be great reguardless because what works to sharpen a knife does the same to the soft wood and lead of the pencil. Which btw your not going to likely find a lead pencil as graphite and clay are the most commonly used materials for pencils as we are all aware of the danger of lead to humans. Though as an artist i can say lead really is a better marking material than anything else used in pencils today.
But for real, buy mechanical pencils and youll never have to fret a dull pencil again. They arent expensive and and are never dull. Just keep the lead exposed in short legnths to avoid breaking the lead.
I also whittle and always have my whittling knife because i can find a cool stick anywhere if im looking but i dont carry a sharpener. I carry a piece of aluminum foil in the event that i need to sharpen my knife. You can keep a folded piece of aluminum anywhere. Keep some in the glove box and in my purse and in my pocket when im walking. Aluminum foil is amazing for sharpening scissors as well. Just fold it and cut theough it and continue cutting until sharp (5-6 cuts is usually sufficiant but cut until satisfied with the sharpness. Dont believe me try it youll be shocked by the results. Same with a knife, try it!

Oh I forgot, there’s a company called scallywag tactical that has a knife and it’s trainer that’s specifically for defense use. In my opinion, it’s a great design. No I don’t work for them or represent them, I just have seen them used extensively by a martial artist who got a set shipped to him by the company on YouTube and it has a really nasty recurve grind near the back so when you grab your right wrist with your left hand to reinforce it when you make that deep cut, nothing can bundle up if the back of the blade, it just continues to cut downward it’s genuinely a nasty knife….and it’s trainer is solid metal as well….
Here’s a yt video on it … https://youtu.be/gFa3F0YWjIQ

Learn it by training with it. Never bring a knife to a gunfight. You should assume they’re strapped. If they get closer than arms length, that’s too close, and is a signal to go first,meaning engage them, or run like hell. Knives aren’t what you think. They are a last resort, and are primarily for retaining your sidearm first and foremost. But again, train with it. If you’ve not once actually made the movements, I promise you, it won’t turn out like it did in your head, it will be scary, your hands won’t want to work right because of the adrenaline etc… familiarize yourself with drawing the knife, fast, as well as slow and discreet like. Understand that you will have to explain yourself to someone important eventually for it, so do the least amount of things you can to disable the attack. Just make that thing VIOLENT. MORE MORE VIOLENT THAN THEM. That is hand to hand combat. Some of the most pure forms of sporting, and you find out a lot about yourself. Again if you have to make sure you have tried it a few times even if you’re by yourself in the middle of nowhere by a tree, you can always practice, I would also advise when you make you first purchase for a good self defense knife, don’t be cheap, the good knives, the best ones made for this kind of thing, will be $175 ,250bux but will have the defensive knife a nice kydex sheath you can put to draw anywhere as well as the trainer which is the same weight and shape as the knife you carry only it’s usually anodized bright red and has rounded off point and no edge to it, this way you can actually practice with someone without hurting them. Then you can see the fault in the things that you may intend on trying well defending yourself. Talk to text butchered this a little bit, but you get my drift. I’ve grown up near and in East Saint Louis, St Louis City, North City, and I’ve seen some messed up s*** dude. Like I said first priority is making an attack first or stopping theirs and making sure that anytime they engage you, they get their self cut. The tendons in the forearm stop the hand from gripping. The tendon above the kneecap is just a bundle of connective tissue holding together all four of the muscles that make up your thigh your quadriceps. And that bundle of muscles comes down to a point there’s no thicker than a steak. So if taking their hand from them by making it not work didn’t stop them I assure you taking away the use of their leg from the knee down till it can be surgically reattached at the ligament will probably stop them. There’s two ways of looking at it though, on one hand I’ve always been told make sure that they can’t show up alive at court to tell on you but on the other hand I’ve done prison time before 8 years total, do you think you can do 25 years of Big boy time if you kill somebody? Everyone is somebody’s child. Like I said it’s a last resort, if you’re pushed to do so, just make sure you do it first and you’re more violent than they are. Have a damn good reason for it, and don’t lie to the cops man because they’ll know. Don’t say anything until you have an attorney. There’s nothing wrong with not saying anything it’s not an admission of guilt it’s the opposite. If you try to explain yourself or at the scene of the crime they’re going to use everything you said against you and you may not be thinking clearly because you just went through a traumatic event. So use your right to remain silent until you can come down and speak to your attorney. I like to believe I gave you good advice, should you find yourself in a bad situation. I believe people want to be good inherently. I also believe some people are just evil. Literally, best way to win a fight is to not have it. Fight fair with family, fight dirty as shit to save your life from a stranger. Poke fingers at eyes, kick in balls, smack ears hard, stomp someone’s arch flat.
Be good. I believe you genuinely are, but I also hear the inexperience in how you worded things, so I wanted to give it to you straight and real life. Be careful, and be good.

I too, strop on my jeans and I’ll do it again. Hahahaha! Works awesome, weather or not you’re moving a knife quickly up and down. I strop my edc maybe 20 times where the quadriceps muscle is on my jeans. My wiener winced 10 times in fear. 😨 Hahahahahaha

Here’s my input: Toilets. They are ceramic. In an emergency, you can take off the tank lid and find an abundance of unfinished ceramic to sharpen about anything. If it were an extreme, end of civilization situation, at least locally, I’d break one up for smooth flat pieces.