BYXCO "American Mutt" Bench Stone Oversized Item (L) With all axe handles

With all axe handles

Forged in Poland

An attractive and useful pattern well suited to both machete and knife-like tasks

A socketed machete commonly gripped by the socket without an additional handle

The only thing wrong with this example is runout in the grain of the handle

BYXCO "American Mutt" Bench Stone Oversized Item (L) With all axe handlesMade using waste material from the manufacture of other stones, the "American Mutt" series is a unique extra coarse hybrid ceramic made of a blend of aluminum oxide, silicon carbide, and a small amount of diamond in mixed grits. These stones hog off steel so rapidly that you'll quickly develop a thick "mud" of metal swarf on the stone! However, the inclusion of mixed finer grits causes it to leave a finer finish than one would expect for so aggressive