Bought fancy Spyderco tri-angle sharpener. Wow! impressive (and im never impressed)

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Went out this eve and bought a Spyderco model 204 tri-angle sharpener with those nifty synthetic sapphire rods.

Watched the DVD included couple of times, sharpened my Endura, WOW, frigging wow.

And all these years ive been using a flat stone. I paid $60 for it, im sure I could get it elsewhere cheaper, but what the hell….

I LITERALLY SHARPENED 18 KNIVES tonight....... (my wrist is sore as hell now).

I even sharpened all my NEW unused knives, now theyre all MUCH SHARPER

I did a cold steel TAI PAN double bladed long dagger, it was sharp and 100% new to begin with..... I sharpened ONE edge of it and compared to the other, bloody hell………MUCH sharper.

I sharpened 6 spydercos tonight, and 3 GLOCK knives, 4 cold steel knives…..and various other knives.

….including my DULL swiss army knife, which is NOT any longer dull!!!!!

Frigging amazing.

******It has two flaws however, it needs no-slip pads on bottom of unit, which I already glued on myself using pot-holder pads cut up.....

And the cover doesn’t lock down at ALL when you pack it up, so I got a case to stick it all in, otherwise it all falls apart and the rods can fall out easy.

Still, damn nice :eek: :D
 
It locks down fine, but you really have to get the copper rods jammed in good, or else the top stones will block it from closing.

as for the non slip thing. can you still use the bottom of it as a flatstone? i'd thing anti slip pads would get in the way.

oh, and read the Manuel if you haven't. found it far more usefull than the video.
 
Munky88 said:
It locks down fine, but you really have to get the copper rods jammed in good, or else the top stones will block it from closing.

as for the non slip thing. can you still use the bottom of it as a flatstone? i'd thing anti slip pads would get in the way.

oh, and read the Manuel if you haven't. found it far more usefull than the video.
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odd, i thought the manual sucked relative to the video.

yeah, the noslip pads are thin, they dont get in the way at all.

despite the flaw, it get them all sharp as hell, and i couldnt do that with a wetstone. well, i couldnt anyway.
 
I'm a first-time newbie with the 204, as well. Bought about a week and a half ago. I haven't had the time to sit down and work with it, but I did a quick sharpen on an old cheap folder to get an initial feel for the thing. It's a beautiful instrument. Now, if I can just get the hang of sharpening to the tip, without rounding it.

I'll have to sit down one evening after the kids are in bed, and pull out my knives to see what I can do.

I guess we have now become members of the Spyderco Triangle Sharpmaker club. Took me long enough. I've been hearing about it, and even suggesting it to others, but it's taken me 10+ years to finally fork over the dough to get one.

DD
 
A couple of rubber bands or hair elastics will solve the problem of the case falling apart.

A bigger problem for me is storing my ultra-fine rods. :confused:
 
FoxholeAtheist said:
A couple of rubber bands or hair elastics will solve the problem of the case falling apart.

A bigger problem for me is storing my ultra-fine rods. :confused:
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My cover snaps on tight but I also use a couple of rubber bands.

Get a small dish towel and roll the rods in it, then you can slip them into almost any small case. You might get a long plastic pencil case and it will leave room for the rest of your polishing or sharpening kit too.
 
And the cover doesn’t lock down at ALL when you pack it up, so I got a case to stick it all in, otherwise it all falls apart and the rods can fall out easy.
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If you push the brass rods down into their slots deeper, it will let the ceramic triangles sit deeper so that the lid will close tightly. (rubber bands might work better because it is a PITA to get the rods back out next time.)
 
ehh, the lid does go all the way down, but it wont stay shut good.


But hell, i dont care about that, :jerkit:

important thing is the whole system is impressive as hell.

i took it to my gunshop today, and sharpened all their knives, they were impressed as hell like me :D
 
I got mine a couple of weeks ago and all my kitchen, folders, and fixed knives are sharp as heck. It is a graet sharpener once you get the hang of it and use the old marker trick.
 
i also took it to my parents house today, to show them.

i showed mom my spyderco police which is new, but NOW sharper than new, she gave it a thumping and said "damn , thats scary" :eek:


then she gave me her 4 dull serrated "ginsu" (remember that junk???) knives to sharpen.

they were dull as frigging hell....... now you can shave frog hair with them all ......hehehehh!!! :eek: :eek:

I shouldve got this earlier, if you have MORE than a few knives, frigging hell, youre really a dufus if you dont have a good sharpener for them. Honestly thats logical, ......too bad i didnt consider that SAME logic earlier myself.
 
I have to admit that sometimes I go and abuse my knives so I can sharpen them again. Its sick I know but admitting it is the first step to recovery.
 
By the way, it does a great job on scissors and potato peelers and nailclippers too. You can put two rods in the grooves on the bottom and use it as a benchstone ( to sharpen the knife tip, so you won't round it off using the vee). You can use an individual rod to buff sharp or rough edges without going through the whole sharpening procedure. Good for cleaning up dings.
 
One thing I've found helps with most Sharpmakers is to keep the brown medium stones on the bottom and the fine stones on top. It just seems like the fine stones don't fit as well into the little notch for the bottom stones as the medium ones do. When I keep the stones in place like that I've never had a problem with the cover on any of the ones I've used/sold.
 
Moto7451 said:
One thing I've found helps with most Sharpmakers is to keep the brown medium stones on the bottom and the fine stones on top. It just seems like the fine stones don't fit as well into the little notch for the bottom stones as the medium ones do. When I keep the stones in place like that I've never had a problem with the cover on any of the ones I've used/sold.
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Same here. The white stones don't seem to lock in place at all.
 
And now that you have mastered the use of the Sharpmaker... make yourself a strop with some leather and polishing paste! And get at it... That will give you an even more polished edge that will last longer and allow longer periods between sharpenning.

Really, the Sharpmaker is a great tool. Not abrasive enough to reprofile (DMT is out there to help you out) but great for touch ups.

Mikel
 
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