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I this a good sharpener?
are the arkansas of fair quality?
It says there is a coarse aluminum oxide stone, a medium soft arkansas, and a fine hard arkansas.
 
Looks pretty good to me. I've never used that kind of setup, but I've seen them before. I think there are far better options out there, but it will get a knife sharp.
 
That one looks a lot like an 'inexpensive' & unbranded 3-stone (mounted) set I bought many years ago. The fine hard Arkansas may be the best of the three stones, if yours is like mine. Pretty nice refining/polishing stone, and new (quality) ones these days aren't exactly cheap. Only thing I don't like about the setup is the permanent mounting of the stones on the triangular block. I'd prefer to separate them, but risk breaking or chipping the stones in attempting to remove them from the block. I already chipped the edge of my fine Arkansas, trying to gently pry it loose. Whatever glue or epoxy was used to mount it, it's strong stuff.

With my set, I haven't gotten much use out of the coarse AlOx or the soft Arkansas. Both of those seem to shed a lot of grit in use, with not much improvement in edge quality. Haven't found any blades that respond well to these stones.


David
 
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With my set, I haven't gotten much use out of the coarse AlOx or the soft Arkansas. Both of those seem to shed a lot of grit in use, with not much improvement in edge quality. Haven't found any blades that respond well to these stones.


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I've used an identical setup bought 30+ years ago to sharpen more knives than I can remember. The blades were anything up to 440-c Bucks and others, 154CM, and ats-34. I never used the alumox-way too coarse. Substituted a two-sided coarse/fine no-name alumox. For high-carbon steels in the 10XX range, the soft Arkansas made a fine finishing edge for kitchen work(bevel set on alumox). For the stainless knives and for harder heat-treated carbon steels as well, the Soft Ark. smoothed out the scratches and prepared the edges nicely for a finished edge on the white Hard Ark. For a knife meant to be used, I can't see needing anything much more until you tackle the newer, high-wear, super carbide steels. If there's any need to.
Oh, and after several thousand edges produced, I still use them. Not noticeably thinner; don't need leveling.
 
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I have the exact same set up from Buck. It will work. At times I work mine on the coarse and soft Ark.. It looks like you'll need to level your coarse stone. Don't work the complex stainless steels on it. DM
 
Here is Jason Randall from Randall Knives sharpening with it back in 2008 when i visited them, so it seems to work;



Edit: it's not a Buck Triple Sharp but a Norton Tri-Hone that he uses,
 
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Yes, when you step up to the Norton 313 Tri-Hone that is a much up grade model from the Buck and the stones are much larger. Plus, the cost of the unit is much higher. I have the one shown in the photo and it is a very fine unit to sharpen on. DM
 
I have a very similar 3-stone Arkansas sharpener, it was my first real set of sharpening stones and it worked great for years. It'll put a really nice polished edge on most carbon steel and low to midrange stainless but its almost useless on any of the new high alloy "super" steels. The reason I upgrade to diamond hones years ago was because I purchased a Kershaw Random Task and the Arkansas stones were no match for it's cpm-440v blade.
 
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