Gerber Pocket Sharpener?

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Scott Free

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I was ordering a few other products from basegear.com, and began looking around the site and found this:

http://www.basegear.com/knifesharpener.html

It's a Gerber Pocket Sharpener. It's small, light, and cheap! I would probably only use it on my SAK when in the field. Anyone have one of these? Useful?

Scott
 
I'm not exactly sure how it works, but I have tried a few that looked something like that. My experience has been pretty bad.

But I'd say, if you have the money and are interested in it, and going order other stuff at the same time (being that its super cheap and all), I'd get it and test it out on some junk knives. If it's not that great, then you'll still have something good to sharpen your junkier knives with. ;)
 
This looks like a version of the small Gatco Croc Stix. It's like a tiny Spyderco Sharpmaker. Two sets of ceramic rods set at a fixed angle. What they describe here as coarse is probably medium like the Spyderco and Gatco medium rods. For two bucks it looks like a cool deal. I had a set of the tiny Gatco stix and kept a lot of friend's knives sharp with them. I lost them and have been looking for a replacement. Perhaps this is it.

John
 
I know people that love them. They will put a good edge on a knife but I don't like them as they limit you to one angle.
 
I'm asking about this thing because a few months ago I was helping my father with an insulating project and quicly dulled the edge on my BM 940 cutting fiberglass insulation. (It was the only cutting tool available.) When the project was over, I tried cutting down a few cardboard boxes but the edge just wouldn't do it. So my father hands me this little sharpener that looked similar to the one in question. I was hesitant to use it because I was afraid to mess up the sharpening angle that I use with my Spyderco 204. I used the cheap sharpener anyway. After a few passes, the edge was surprisingly sharp!

I still don't think I'd use this thing on my better knives, but on a SAK''s thin blade with relatively soft steel, it might make a compact, light and convenient tool for the field.

Scott
 
It could come in handy. But it does work best on thinner/ narrower blades as already mentioned. Keep a good stiff bristle brush on hand as the steel coming of the blades edge will build up easily in the "X"s of the rods. The double ended plastic handle types popular in firearms cleaning will do just fine.

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