DMT Aligner and Sharpmaker

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Brutus013

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If I get a DMT aligner, do I have to make the bevels the same angle as my sharpmaker (approximately 30/40 degrees), or can I just reprofile my knives down to something below 30 degrees and use the Sharpmaker to put a small 30 degree microbevel on the knife for touchups?
 
I use a similar technique for some of my knives although I use an Edgepro to profile the knife to 30 then put a 40 microbevel on them with the Sharpmaker. Works very well.
 
Sounds good. I wish I could afford an Edgepro, but the DMT Aligner looks to be a good, cheap alternative. I won't really know the exact angle I'm sharpening to, but that doesn't matter to me. I'll just have to set it to anything below 30 degrees.
 
I use that system too and it seems to work well. The two sharpeners (DMT Aligner and Sharpmaker) compliment each other. The DMT cuts a decent back bevel and the Sharpmaker keeps up the edge without a lot of fuss.
 
Brutus013 said:
If I get a DMT aligner, do I have to make the bevels the same angle as my sharpmaker (approximately 30/40 degrees), or can I just reprofile my knives down to something below 30 degrees and use the Sharpmaker to put a small 30 degree microbevel on the knife for touchups?
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Exactly what I do. Works great.
 
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Yeah, I'd say it works.

DMT Blue, Red, and Green at the lowest setting followed by Sharpmaker white ceramic at 40 degrees, twenty strokes on the corners followed by twenty on the flats. Hair whittling. Now, on all of my knives, the edges are either whittling or they simply cut the hair in half.
 
I have very less experience sharpening locally made knives over a carborundum stone. I wanted to know, which of these 2 systems, the DMT or the Sharpmaker should i go with to restore the factory edges of my knives?
 
Brutus013 said:
can I just reprofile my knives down to something below 30 degrees and use the Sharpmaker to put a small 30 degree microbevel on the knife for touchups?
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That will work just fine.

Brutus013 said:
By the way, how large of a blade can you do on the DMT Aligner?
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You can do as big a blade as you want, but if it's too long, you might have to do it in sections. And no matter what kind of knife you do, you have to clamp the Aligner in the same spot in the same direction at the same tightness every time, or else there might be some slight variations and you'll end up "reprofiling" (slightly) the blade every time. So I recommend that you find a "sweet spot" on your blade where you can put the clamp, something like all the way to the handle where you know you can get it exactly the same every time.
 
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