Advice on sharpening Survival Knife

[The Man In Black]

I bought an HI Survival Knife a few weeks ago, and the blade got a little chewed up from the test chopping. I have not touched it up yet. Since then, I have used the knife, and have passed it around to some friends (who were pretty rough on it). The blade held up the the abuse with no problems.

I do not know how I chipped the blade the first time, but it took a lot of abuse with no damage, so I'd say it is a winner.

Question is, how should I touch it up? they are the biggest chips I have ever put into a knife, but they are actually small. Should I try to convex the edge more? I have a lansky knife sharpener system.

Thanks for any advice.

 

[Issun]

I'd use the sandpaper on mouse pad trick

Be sure to sharpen the entire bevel of the blade as you sharpen in order to maintain a good convex edge
This takes longer but should yield a much nicer edge, use course sandpaper until you get the chips out, then move to finer and finer sandpapers to get the edge razor sharp

 

[Steely_Gunz]

Good advice You could also not worry about the chips if this is going to be more of a hard use knife. They'll come out sooner or later with sharpenings.