of the sleeved stone sharpening section 5 from the device 1 fig3 depicts the stone retaining shaft 5 anchored or secured to the handle 3 and threaded at the opposite shaft with threads 8 for threading onto the mating female threads 9 at a support end 2 a of the steel shaping section 2 exposure of the sleeved sharpening section 5 may be accomplished simply by unthreading the stone retaining shaft 4 from the steel shaping section 2 so as to allow removal of the sleeved sharpening section 5 as illustrated in fig3 fig3 b and 4 illustrate other embodiments of the device shown in fig1 3 depicting the stone retaining shaft 4 as an integral milled part of steel section 2 which extends outwardly sufficiently so as to not only retain the sleeved stone section 5 but also extends and exit through a lengthwise bore 3 b in handle 3 with threaded hanger nut 15 being threaded via a shaft handle support section 3 a onto the shaft threads 17 as depicted by fig3 b and 4 in fig3 a and 5 the stone retaining shaft 4 is threaded at both shaft ends with threads 8 which are respectively adapted to thread into mating female threads disposed in handle 3 and the female threads 9 of steel section 3 as may be observed from fig2 in all of the depicted embodiments of.