Edge Pro Apex

[philwar]

Last Saturday was the Dutch Knife Exhibition. I had two major scores there, a Spyderco Manix 1 in Foliage Green (awesome folder, quite possibly Spyderco's best IMHO) and a new sharpener, the Edge Pro Apex.

Now I've always had trouble sharpening stuff. I can get things sharp, but I don't often succeed in getting it as sharp as I want, or as sharp as some others seem to do with ease. I've had relative succes with Lansky's sharpener, Spyderco's Sharpmaker, with steel and ceramic rods, with EZE lap sticks, and more. But this device changes everything. It's amazing.

For the first time I feel success is guaranteed, the method the Apex uses is just right. You can set any angle you like, there are many variations in grid coarseness, it's even easy to totally reprofile a knife (I did it with a Kabar Becker Necker, gave it a 14 degree inclusive angle with a mirror polish edge). It is SO satisfying to take a knife that hardly cuts porridge and make it shave with ease.

Another thing you can do with it is convex a knife. This takes more practice, but it is a matter of discipline and accuracy, not feeling and estimates. A friend convexed my Master Hunter, and the knife was just transformed by it.

Been doing nothing but sharpening since I got the Apex. Highly recommended for anyone (like me) who is somewhat - shall we say - challenged in this area! :thumbup:

 

[CarpScot]

The EdgePro is a sharpener that is brought up here quite often. I have one as well and quite like it. :thumbup: I'm curious as to your comment about using it to convex. How would one do that?

 

[powernoodle]

Been doing nothing but sharpening since I got the Apex.

Same here.

Pardon me for posting this again, but I am very proud of my newfound "skill":

 

[philwar]

The EdgePro is a sharpener that is brought up here quite often. I have one as well and quite like it. :thumbup: I'm curious as to your comment about using it to convex. How would one do that?

I've only seen it being done (from up close), what Martin (my friend) does is, he starts out at a steep angle and by small increments decreases the angle. I'm not sure how many steps it took, but considering the work it went rather quickly. He did this with the diamond stone. I'm not sure how many passes he did, I forgot to count.
Of course, it was only a 4" blade, but still.
After the diamond stone he did the same things with fine stones, and finished by stropping with a compound.
My old Master Hunter has a mirror finished convex edge now. And it whittles hair.