best sharpener under 10$

Dijos

Dijos

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in going with my cheap theme of the day, what do you think the best sharpener is under 10 bucks? I will slap you if you say sharpmaker. I have 2-the gatco spyderco model, and a lansky? yellow V type with 2 little rods. For my purposes, I would have to go with the lansky, but the gatco served me well for many years, on many knives. Your thoughts?
 
Wood block and sandpaper...... any size, any grit. You can use a dowel for recurve blades.
 
You might also use the unglazed ceramic on the bottom of a large porcelain bowl. I saw that on Yan Can Cook many years ago as Martin Yan demonstrated by sharpening his Chinese cleaver. If you already have a large bowl, or a ceramic coffee mug, that might be one way to do it.
 
I did a lot of sharpening with a small keychain DMT that ran about 15$ back before I got serious. Not bad stuff.

I have a `7% Arkansas stone that works really well for what I use it for (surgical black for final sharpening step).

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I think it is hard to beat one of the EZLap diamond sharpeners in fine or xfine grit. For reprofile work many like the extra course. I bought a three pack recently for close to what you are wanting to spend.

http://www.knivesplus.com/eze-lap-sharpener-ez-lpak.html

I use these as much as anything and they always do the job just fine. Alls you need after these is a good piece of leather rough side up with some flex cut polish paste or other polishing compound to take off the wire edge and you have all you need.
 
a std soft ark stone and oil works fine, and i have seen them at gunshows for less than $10.
 
m_calingo said:
You might also use the unglazed ceramic on the bottom of a large porcelain bowl. I saw that on Yan Can Cook many years ago as Martin Yan demonstrated by sharpening his Chinese cleaver. If you already have a large bowl, or a ceramic coffee mug, that might be one way to do it.
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I've done this in a pinch. Works great. It'll be a coarse, toothy edge though, not a nice polished one.
 
Silicon carbide paper is good to carry, wrap around a flat leather sheathe is good for convex edge or any other edge, I wrap it around my leather check book at work for touch up jobs. I can wrap around my multi tool if I want a hard flat edge.
I like the diamond sharpener on Leathermans tools also for touching up.
 
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