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Can you help me find a knife sharpener for edges on blades?

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Hi! I am wanting to get a knife sharpener for putting edges on my blades. I have been using a cheap fix angle sharpener and it finally bit the dust. I have a diamond stone, but I am not good at free handing edges. I was looking at the knife sharpener attachment from housemade (I have a revolution gen 5) and also at a WEN water cooled sharpener. Are there any other options that I should look at? I'd like to keep it under $300. Thanks!
 
I don't know what you mean by "cheap fix angle sharpener" but the Work Sharp Knife & Tool Sharpener my wife got me about 15 years worked really good, until about 8 months ago. I have since acquired one of those Chinese 1x30 grinders that I made a pivoting rest for so I can hold whatever angle (usually 20) I like. It works great. It's variable speed, reversible, & I found belts from 24 to 2000 grit. It also works for shaping handles. There's a few utube videos of guys making complete knives on them but who has that kind of time and patience.
 
The Lansky system, or any of the ones inspired by it are a good place to start if you don't mind doing it by hand.... If I was going to buy one, I would get the one with the diamond stones, that way you can sharpen high carbide knives too.
Of course, the other option is to just get good at holding an angle while sharpening on a stone. That is a better option, as you can use any stone that you come across to sharpen you stuff. heck I use the bottom of a ceramic mug to sharpen people's knives when I go to a friend's house who has dull knives and no stones...
 
Worksharp MK2 knife and tool sharpener. I only use the tool attachment and love it. I use it for putting bevels on all my knives as well as sharpening others. 1757180986066.png
 
GRapp said:
I don't know what you mean by "cheap fix angle sharpener" but the Work Sharp Knife & Tool Sharpener my wife got me about 15 years worked really good, until about 8 months ago. I have since acquired one of those Chinese 1x30 grinders that I made a pivoting rest for so I can hold whatever angle (usually 20) I like. It works great. It's variable speed, reversible, & I found belts from 24 to 2000 grit. It also works for shaping handles. There's a few utube videos of guys making complete knives on them but who has that kind of time and patience.
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What I mean by '' cheap fix angle sharpener '' is a Runix pro sharpening system. I thought about the work sharp but I do not want to have to by more belts than I already do.
 
A.McPherson said:
The Lansky system, or any of the ones inspired by it are a good place to start if you don't mind doing it by hand.... If I was going to buy one, I would get the one with the diamond stones, that way you can sharpen high carbide knives too.
Of course, the other option is to just get good at holding an angle while sharpening on a stone. That is a better option, as you can use any stone that you come across to sharpen you stuff. heck I use the bottom of a ceramic mug to sharpen people's knives when I go to a friend's house who has dull knives and no stones...
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I have a Lansky but it is super slow and I got a lot of blades to sharpen. I have sharpened about twenty blades free hand and had bad results.
 
I like the worksharp field sharpener. It has a little ramp that just puts every knife at 20° and a strop. Which is what I use mostly anyway.

And there are some basic instructionals that make using it pretty straightforward.

 
GRapp said:
Linus, they are yours. Unbeknownst to me my acct expired and I can't PM you. We'll get the details worked out as soon as I am a contributing member again.
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Thank you! I replied.
 
Drop bear said:
I like the worksharp field sharpener. It has a little ramp that just puts every knife at 20° and a strop. Which is what I use mostly anyway.

And there are some basic instructionals that make using it pretty straightforward.

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I second this. The little angle guide incorporated into the worksharp guided sharpener worked well as "training wheels" for me when learning to freehand sharpen and is pretty affordable.
 
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