Knife sharpener? -recommendation

kta2402 said:
The clamps are (to me) a pain to setup and the knife often slipped if it was a heavy one, I think that a good angle keeper system is the spyderco sharpmaker but I prefer hand stones and even more leather hones, why ? Because I don't need to set it up and it works great, plus its easy to change the angle of your edge, bad point, well for me all my knife finish with a convex edge, not because I want to because I am unable to hold a constant edge, but that doesn't bother me as long as I can shave with my knives. But that said, the lansky system will work great, its just the setup hassle in my opinion.
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thanks, I've been worried that it would not work to clamp it in properly. now all i got to do is wait for my knives and sharpener :grumpy:
 
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Have heard a lot of good things about the Lansky Puck from guys that know about knives and axes.

I hope to be trying out a new mechanical type sharpener, it is called the
FireStone 2-Stage Hand Held Sharpener. Should get one in the next month.
Will try it out and let everyone know.
 
if anyone is interested I've used the lansky clampsystem fairly much now and I must say that i love it, it's great! I haven't had any problems with the clamp on any of the knife I've tested it on, and all of them are shaving sharp now :D. and that is just with the standard system that has the coarse, medium and fine hones. I'm probably going to buy the ultra fine and/or the super sapphire just to see if I can get them even sharper.
 
nothing beats learning how to sharpen on a stone or strop free hand... practice with cheap knives.... the sharps maker works pretty good as well.... i never felt right useing a lansky...

avoid pull threw sharpeners... and theres a differnce between sharpening and honing a blade.... mainly the purpose and the amount of material removed...

i would say pick up some cheap knives and learn how to free hand on a stone till then a sharps maker is nice. once you get it down move on to learning to strop too... there are may economical and compact ways to keep your blades nice and sharp.
 
My vote is the Spyderco Sharpmaker. If you have some scandi blades, buy a couple flat diamond or arkansas stones also for thos knives.
 
might have to look into the sharpmaker for my rc3. I haven't had to sharpen it yet. I was always awful at sharpening, my Spyderco Native has been sitting in a drawer for a year because I dulled it while trying to sharpen it....

However I've been practicing with diamond stone on some Mora blades, and have been able to maintain a decent edge on them. Can't quite achieve as shaving sharp as when I got them, though...

Too scared to go free hand on the RAT quite yet...
 
No one else tried the EDGE PRO Apex? Looks interesting. I, myself, have not tried it...but just checked out their website.
 
I convexed my knives using sand paper method, then i just maintain the edge using leather strop from KSF. It's easy to get the edge back to hair popping sharp, just give it a 10 seconds strop on green compound(or black if necessary). don't have to worry about angles, just need to decide how much "meat" you gonna put on the edge.
 
I thought I was ok with sharpening, but now I feel like my head is going to explode. I hope I don't screw up the nice RATs I ordered.
 
I have the sharpmaker, the dmt guided system, and I have freehand stones (diamond and natural). the dmt gets things sharp fast once you get it set up (which isn't much of a pain once you get used to it. ther sharpmaker is awesome for a quick sharpening (and reprofiling if you get the diamond hones). I like the small ez lap diamond stones for fast freehand sharpening, and for taking the stone to the blade on my bigger blades (machetes, axes, khukuris etc.)
I just got the otterbox for field use (just to try it out) but when I'm out and about I have a diamond rod and a few small diamond stones.
 
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