Buck Diamond Sharpener any good?

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Maverick4546

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Hi all

I have just spent 2 days re-profiling a Gerber 650. I have it now as the shape I wanted. Which is basically to remove the serrated section and make it into a standard plain edge. I have done this with some standard metal working tools. But now it needs sharpening. So whilst shopping on ebay I bought a Buck Diamond sharpener. I used a old oil stone before now with good results but now that poor thing needs to be retired to the bin.

Does anyone use of these and how do they perform?

Thing is I own loads of knives.. but only a couple,Benchade Pika and Mini Pika and eventually the Gerber will be my standard EDC's. All my other Bucks and SOGS dont get used and still have the factory edges on them and I doubt they will ever get dull.
 
Maverick4546 said:
Hi all

I have just spent 2 days re-profiling a Gerber 650.
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Diamond, or ceramic, is the way to go for finishing.
Mav, you could've spent one of those two days mowing my lawn.
Goose.
BCCI 1190
LSMFT
 
Buckaholic said:
Diamond, or ceramic, is the way to go for finishing.
Mav, you could've spent one of those two days mowing my lawn.
Goose.
BCCI 1190
LSMFT
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He he well I guess I could. But in the UK its somewhat of a warm spell.. cant think of many things better to do than lounge around in the pool playing with knives :)
 
Maverick4546 said:
But in the UK its somewhat of a warm spell.. cant think of many things better to do than lounge around in the pool playing with knives :)
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Mav,
You want hot? The weather man is predicting a high of 109 degrees tomorrow :eek: (not sure how many celsius that is) which is tad higher than it was today at 106. The only pool I'm going to be relaxing around is my bath tub inside my air conditioned house! :D :cool:
Mike
(but it's a dry heat :cool: )
 
Maverick4546 said:
Well we hit 104 which is 40 deg c. Not bad at all for the UK plus I am on the coast so it seems hotter.
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Mav,
I am impressed. :eek: With the humidity you have on the coast that must really be unbearable. My condolences. :o
Mike
 
He he thanks... I have changed colour tho... Us brits generally dont tan that easy... but I am well umm Dark :) But hey what are summers for?
 
I'm glad you're all enjoying the summer, but what about his original question? It's hard to tell from ads how coarse or fine a diamond sharpener is, let's hear from some guys who've used the Buck one.
 
Well next week when its delivered I will tell you all what its like... just wanted to know what you guys use or if anyone has used Bucks sharpeners.
 
Mike Kerins said:
Mav,
The only pool I'm going to be relaxing around is my bath tub inside my air conditioned house! :D :cool:
Mike
(but it's a dry heat :cool: )
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OK, now I have to think of my grandmother wearing a thong to get the visual of Mike in the tub out of my brain!!!!

Got tired of waiting for you Mav. I just finished mowing the lawn. 10am and it's 90F. Expecting over 100F today.
Wasn't it that British group, "Pink Floyd" that sang "How can you have any pudding if you don't mow the lawn?!?!?!".

I've never used a Buck sharpener gizmo.
Stink at sharpening so I use one of those handheld "V" gizmos http://www.smithabrasives.com and finish with diamond stone http://www.eze-lap.com/index.html.

Goose.
BCCI 1190
LSMFT
 
OK mav, thanks :) I'm interested in one too. I use a medium Arkansas stone with a couple drops of Smith's honing oil for 90% of my sharpening. The Smith's "oil" is non-petroluem, and seems to have some kind of surfactant in it. When the stone gets gray from steel, a few more drops of the Smith's loosens it right up and it wipes clean with a rag.

EDIT: heh I just realized Buckaholic has the Smith's link right there. The 'medium' stone that came with my Smith's kit seems kind of coarse to me. It still leaves a pretty clean edge, but I usually don't need to remove that much metal, and the plastic base annoys me. So I'm still using the same medium arkansas I've had for years and years. The white, hard/fine stone leaves a really nice polish, it can make the primary edge just about glow. I like the oil so much I bought a bigger 4-oz bottle at the hardware store.
 
Maverick4546 said:
Hi all.... So whilst shopping on ebay I bought a Buck Diamond sharpener. I used a old oil stone before now with good results but now that poor thing needs to be retired to the bin.

Does anyone use of these and how do they perform?

Thing is I own loads of knives..dont get used and still have the factory edges on them and I doubt they will ever get dull.
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well well still a stone user .... wow ...
well i have always put my two penyes worth N before so ...;)
except for rough shapeing you can retire the dimond and stones of any kind...:eek:
wood has always been the worse on edges or am i wrong..
most wood workers have passed on past stones and
now use a plate glass and sand paper from 400 to 2000 grit or supper dupper cant hardly feel it fine and H2O ....
this to produce wood shaveings you can read news print through...
or what some cutting meat call sceary sharp...
and if it is a user that is pleanty da... sharp
i have only seen one gagjet that come close and that was a dimiond thingy with floating thingys that did the job but it was a 'C' note at the knife show...
yep a angle holder , H2O and sand paper on plate glass ... many of a hard core wood worker that swore by his india or oil stones has tryed that chanlange and become a beliver... :D
 
I haven't tried what Dave is suggesting, but I have to admit that I am tempted to try it. I've read this in several woodworking magazines on how to keep plane irons razor sharp. If it would work on them, why not knives? My only issue would be how to fabricate an angle gauge to make sure the right angle is applied.
 
334dave said:
yep a angle holder , H2O and sand paper on plate glass ... many of a hard core wood worker that swore by his india or oil stones has tryed that chanlange and become a beliver... :D
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Most of my knives don't really need to BE that sharp, lol. But I definitely see the point, that's a pretty fine edge.
 
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