I'm lusting after sharpener, really want wicked edge sport pro

aleforme said:
My perspective on sharpening systems is this. You need to decide if sharpening is going to be a hobby for you or if it's just a necessary requirement for owning your knives.

If you want a system to sharpen your knives because you love the technical process or the "art of sharpening" and that's where you get your enjoyment, get a Wicked Edge, EP, Lansky, etc.

If you simply want to get your knives really sharp quickly and effectively and don't really care about the "art of sharpening" or the process, get the Sharpmaker.

Either is fine and there is no right or wrong way. Just depends if you want to spend the time and effort with a guided system.
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FTW- couldn't have said it better
 
Surfingringo,

When my edge gets a little dull from a day's work, I just touch it up with my Wicked Edge. I go to my log book and look up the angle on the knife that needs sharpening. Clamp the knife in, set the sharpening angle, grab the stones. Within a couple minutes, shaving sharp again. Super easy.

My WE sharpener is set up on a ceramic block and is always ready to go.

Once you go WE, you will never look back. LOL. I love this sharpener.
 
Dapimpspimp said:
Surfingringo,

When my edge gets a little dull from a day's work, I just touch it up with my Wicked Edge. I go to my log book and look up the angle on the knife that needs sharpening. Clamp the knife in, set the sharpening angle, grab the stones. Within a couple minutes, shaving sharp again. Super easy.

My WE sharpener is set up on a ceramic block and is always ready to go.

Once you go WE, you will never look back. LOL. I love this sharpener.
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I might get one one of these days, and if I do, i'm sure I will love it for reprofiling. I will never stop using the SM for touchups though. I'm lazy and it is just too easy and the results are too good. I checked a couple of the knives at Blade that the guys working the WE and KME stands were sharpening for folks. They were sharp, but none of them were on par with the knife in my pocket.

Anyway, I've seen the WE demo-ed at the Blade show and its a solid system. A question though...why would you go to the hassle of keeping a logbook?? I don't get it. How many different angles do you use??
 
Surfingringo said:
I might get one one of these days, and if I do, i'm sure I will love it for reprofiling. I will never stop using the SM for touchups though. I'm lazy and it is just too easy and the results are too good. I checked a couple of the knives at Blade that the guys working the WE and KME stands were sharpening for folks. They were sharp, but none of them were on par with the knife in my pocket.

Anyway, I've seen the WE demo-ed at the Blade show and its a solid system. A question though...why would you go to the hassle of keeping a logbook?? I don't get it. How many different angles do you use??
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I did this for a while, so I could re-clamp the knife in as close to the same position as last time I sharpened it, not just for the edge angle but for the position of the blade in the clamp.
It can be useful if I want to microbevel an edge after some use to maintain its sharpness. I rarely do this now though as the SM is so quick and easy to do this with.

I sharpen quite a few knives of different types, many of them for other people. After a while I stopped bothering to log the position in the clamp as whichever knife it was had been either touched up repeatedly on the SM so the micro bevel wasn't so micro anymore, or more often used to the point of horrible bluntness and/or damaged edge and simply needed to be fully reprofiled again.

I do write down edge angles though, particularly since I got the angle cube and can get a reasonably useful measurement. It can reduce the time involved if I know what angle I did it at last time.
 
Cursum Perficio said:
I do write down edge angles though, particularly since I got the angle cube and can get a reasonably useful measurement. It can reduce the time involved if I know what angle I did it at last time.
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I guess I just assumed that most folks would reprofile the vast majority of their knives all to the same angle. I set most everything at 30 degrees. At any given moment I might have one or two knives that I run a bit thinner but I know which ones they are and everything else is at 30 so there's not much to log.
 
Surfingringo said:
I guess I just assumed that most folks would reprofile the vast majority of their knives all to the same angle. I set most everything at 30 degrees. At any given moment I might have one or two knives that I run a bit thinner but I know which ones they are and everything else is at 30 so there's not much to log.
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Your right, I'm more or less the same for most of my own blades, usually 17' p/s with a couple of exceptions.

Other peoples knives/requirements can vary a lot though, and it can be months or more since last I saw a particular knife, and my memory is not that good. Ahh the inconvenience of aging...
 
Cursum Perficio said:
Your right, I'm more or less the same for most of my own blades, usually 17' p/s with a couple of exceptions.

Other peoples knives/requirements can vary a lot though, and it can be months or more since last I saw a particular knife, and my memory is not that good. Ahh the inconvenience of aging...
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Right on, I wasn't considering that clients might want various edge angles. That makes perfect sense. :)
 
Judging from my own experience, I suspect that many WE owners have plenty of others wanting their knives sharpened for them.
And that's cool. At $5 - $10 a knife it adds up to new stones/angle cube/upgrade parts :thumbup:
 
Congrats! It took a bit to wear in the stones on mine, I suggest finding a few old blades to practice on and break in the stones.

I got the upgrade kit a while back, also had a fitter make up a steel clamp 'bout an inch higher than standard. Together with the riser block and Tormek clamp I can get very acute edge angles. Needed to get longer arms as well (from oldawan).
The angle cube is well worth having too.
And the 50/80 grit stones are awesome for re-profiling/removing a lot of steel.

Only real problem I've had is bending the clamp by overdoing the tightening with shallow FFG blades too high in the clamp.

Would love to have nice water stones... in time maybe...

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Bought sharpener and angle cube

Any idea how many knives it will take before I'm decent enough to vise up one of my PM2's
 
kvanpacker said:
Any idea how many knives it will take before I'm decent enough to vise up one of my PM2's
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Nope :D I do think breaking in the stones is as important as getting 'the knack'. So find some old blades to start with, progress to family members kitchen knives, and you will know when you are ready for a nice Para2 :thumbup:
 
Cursum Perficio said:
Nope :D I do think breaking in the stones is as important as getting 'the knack'. So find some old blades to start with, progress to family members kitchen knives, and you will know when you are ready for a nice Para2 :thumbup:
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I have plenty of volunteers in my kitchen drawers
 
I agree with the Gringo and the SM. Love the thing as it is quick, easy and effective.

I have been playing with strops and the CBN solutions and I find that I'm getting pretty damn good at maintaining edges with an end of day strop with the 4 micron. This is after reprofiling to about 20-25 degrees and working off a 30 SM micro-bevel.
 
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