BYXCO "Black Magic" 2x4 Honing Plate Featured locking lever and lanyard bale

locking lever and lanyard bale make for a knife that's both easy to carry and a joy to use

As a result of this

and any other target that would be prone towards slipping off the edge of a conventional blade

These shears are so useful that we use four pairs of them in the workshop

the Humboldt shears are able to pierce through many materials to start an incision in the body of the target rather than cutting in from its edge

BYXCO "Black Magic" 2x4 Honing Plate Featured locking lever and lanyard baleExperts agree that the secret to achieving exceptionally keen edges is a crisp, clean apex, and that this is easiest to produce using a hard, fine stone. The Black Magic honing plate is an exceptionally hard stone, both in composition and structure, and produces the crisp apex that's so strongly desired in a finished edge on cutting tools of all sorts. Best used with light pressure in the final strokes of the sharpening process or for light