DMT Course Pull Through. Anybody familiar?

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HoosierQ

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DMT makes a think not unlike the Sharpmaker. It has only 1 setting (a minus) at 40 degrees inclusive. The stones however are DMT course diamonds (a plus) which by what I've heard would seem to be an improvement over the Spyderco Triangle diamond stones that are reputed to be rather fine albeit more aggressive than the brown stones.

Has anyone had any experience with this DMT product? The whole thing, except for the stones themselves, appears to have been made of lucite or some similar material.
 
I think they call that the 'Diamond-Vee'. It does look like it will work well. If the lack of more than one angle setting doesn't bother you, then I wouldn't let it sway your decision. The rods are fairly short (4", according to description on knifecenter's site), so some might find that to be a problem with larger blades (but there are some techniques to work around that).

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With the coarse diamond, it should work very fast, in just a few passes (3-5 or less) for touch-ups. Just make sure to keep pressure feather-light. Grinding too hard on the diamond won't help the edge at all, and it'll prematurely wear the rods by scrubbing the diamond off of them.

A.G. Russell makes a similar compact sharpener (the 'Field Sharpener'), with one angle setting (30°). But, it includes 4 rods: fairly coarse diamond, and some brown/grey ceramics, similar to the Sharpmaker's medium rods, but maybe just a hair more aggressive. Rods are also 4" length. I have one, and it works great. Pretty well-thought-out base/case as well:

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David
 
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Interesting. I am looking at reprofiling work which I do primarily free hand on big DMT plates. The 30 degrees of that Russell is more attractive to me. I like to reprofile to 30 and then I have the option of touching up at 30 or microbeveling at 40. As with all things DMT, this thing is a little expensive. I may continue to evaluate.
 
HoosierQ said:
Interesting. I am looking at reprofiling work which I do primarily free hand on big DMT plates. The 30 degrees of that Russell is more attractive to me. I like to reprofile to 30 and then I have the option of touching up at 30 or microbeveling at 40. As with all things DMT, this thing is a little expensive. I may continue to evaluate.
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You could always do like others here have done, and build an angled fixture, ala Sharpmaker style, to hold your diamond plates. Could be as simple as cutting some 30°/40° 'V' slots into the edge of a piece of lumber, like a 2x8 or 2x10, to hold your plates at the desired angle. Somewhere here on the forum, I'm sure I've seen pics of such a fixture made to hold a DMT Dia-Fold or similar hone.


David
 
The DMT Diamond-V is a very nice tool, but I found the rods to be just a bit too short (4") for my liking. I was given a set of round diamond rods (9") that fit over the originals, and used that for many years before I got a Sharpmaker.


Stitchawl
 
stitchawl said:
The DMT Diamond-V is a very nice tool, but I found the rods to be just a bit too short (4") for my liking. I was given a set of round diamond rods (9") that fit over the originals, and used that for many years before I got a Sharpmaker.


Stitchawl
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That's the only thing I wish were improved on the Russell sharpener I've got; wish it were a little bigger (and a secondary angle setting wouldn't hurt, for some). But it is called a 'Field Sharpener' after all, and is nicely compact & portable. On the upside, both the diamond and ceramic rods are pretty aggressive, in spite of their limited length, so it gets a lot of work done in a short pass. I've still been able to quickly put some bite back into some of my smaller & medium blades with it, mostly on just the ceramic rods.


David
 
Obsessed with Edges said:
You could always do like others here have done, and build an angled fixture, ala Sharpmaker style, to hold your diamond plates. Could be as simple as cutting some 30°/40° 'V' slots into the edge of a piece of lumber, like a 2x8 or 2x10, to hold your plates at the desired angle. Somewhere here on the forum, I'm sure I've seen pics of such a fixture made to hold a DMT Dia-Fold or similar hone.


David
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This is precisely what I am going to do.
 
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