About a week or so ago I received my Lansky sharpener in the mail. Since then I've sharpened every knife in my house! I'd do the butter knives too but my wife would go nuts. I even sharpened the junk Alaskan Ulu we picked up in some novelty shop - it's razor sharp now as well!
In the process, I found some old junk chinese folders someone gave me several years back. Real crap. Steel, if one can call it that, more like tin, is total junk. Anyway, tried as I might, I couldn't sharpen it on the Lansky. No matter what I did I couldn't raise a burr, so I'm thinking maybe some metals, being soft like that, don't raise a burr. I removed it from the Lansky and put it onto an old Smiths Tri hone my son had given me for Christmas a year or so ago. Started out with the coarse stone, then to medium and finally fine, using my hand as a guide in setting an angle. Amazingly, it not only sharpened, but it slices through paper with ease. I even tried a small area on my arm, and it shaved the hairs too! Of course the process of shaving a hair from my arm I'm sure dulled it already, but with the Smiths stones and doing it by hand, it's now one more sharp knife in my drawer.
Now I need to go check what my neighbors are using - they may have some dull knives too.....
In the process, I found some old junk chinese folders someone gave me several years back. Real crap. Steel, if one can call it that, more like tin, is total junk. Anyway, tried as I might, I couldn't sharpen it on the Lansky. No matter what I did I couldn't raise a burr, so I'm thinking maybe some metals, being soft like that, don't raise a burr. I removed it from the Lansky and put it onto an old Smiths Tri hone my son had given me for Christmas a year or so ago. Started out with the coarse stone, then to medium and finally fine, using my hand as a guide in setting an angle. Amazingly, it not only sharpened, but it slices through paper with ease. I even tried a small area on my arm, and it shaved the hairs too! Of course the process of shaving a hair from my arm I'm sure dulled it already, but with the Smiths stones and doing it by hand, it's now one more sharp knife in my drawer.
Now I need to go check what my neighbors are using - they may have some dull knives too.....