Honing steels:

Standard equipment in professional kitchens around the world, and they do an AWESOME job with many stainless steel EDC and hunting knives too! Many carbon tool steel knives work well with a steel. From unrated stainless up to 440, 420, Morakniv Scandinavian stainless steel, 7Cr17mov, Mov1.1416 , and many others. Carbon tool steel with a hardness rating below 58, a kitchen steel is going to be a quick alternative to a full sharpen. It dresses the edge by aligning the steel fibers that have become lightly distorted, this maintains the edge without removing material like a standard sharpening, making the edge, and the blade steel last longer. If you've ever sharpened a knife free-hand, You can probably swip-swipe a steel. Low pressure and "feel" are the keys to honing steels. There's nothing like the sound of a knife on steel in experienced hands. That alone gets cool points, and impresses the kids lol. 12" of steel, with a handle and hanging ring, 18.5" overall. Keep it soaked in light oil if you're not keeping it in the house. An unprotected steel will get rough and rusty spots out in the garage, in a truck box, or in a hunt pack. WD-40 works really well as it repels water and loosens everything up for a quick wipe clean, but food grade mineral oil is recommended for steels used with food prep knives.

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