Lansky and higher quality steels.

Rykjeklut

Rykjeklut

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I've searched a little around, but it is entirely possible I've missed something.

Now, I have a pretty basic Lansky kit, with 3 different stones (coarse, medium, fine) and it's worked perfectly fine for me so far.

But recently I've picked up quite a few knives with much better steels than I've sharpened so far.
Haven't had to sharpen any of my M390 or Elmax knives yet but the day will come..

So. Am I in for a world of hurt with my basic Lansky? Should I spring for some diamond?
 
World of hurt? No. Lots of time? Most definitely.. I have the “deluxe” which is 2 more stone, one T either end. It gets to a point where it just takes too dang long. I picked a 600 diamond which helped out but need one around 3-400. I also picked up a 2000 stone and a leather strip for mine. A decent d2 or 154cm or better will convince you to go diamond for better steels and keep your stones clean!
 
Lots of time and maybe some more wear and tear on the stones. A coarser diamond to reprofile will go a long way. Than maybe one or two diamond stones after that and your good, personally I like the edge off my DMT coarse (320) or Sharpmaker diamond (400) so there is definitely nothing that says you can't finish it on a coarse grit.
 
sickpuppy1 said:
World of hurt? No. Lots of time? Most definitely.. I have the “deluxe” which is 2 more stone, one T either end. It gets to a point where it just takes too dang long. I picked a 600 diamond which helped out but need one around 3-400. I also picked up a 2000 stone and a leather strip for mine. A decent d2 or 154cm or better will convince you to go diamond for better steels and keep your stones clean!
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Bob6794 said:
Lots of time and maybe some more wear and tear on the stones. A coarser diamond to reprofile will go a long way. Than maybe one or two diamond stones after that and your good, personally I like the edge off my DMT coarse (320) or Sharpmaker diamond (400) so there is definitely nothing that says you can't finish it on a coarse grit.
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Yeah, kinda what I expected. Thanks, guess I'll spring for some diamonds :thumbsup:
 
I was in the same boat. Purchased the diamond & ceramic stones & turned one of the AO stones into a leather strop by gluing a piece of an old leather belt to the stone. Works like a champ.

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Yeah better add the 2 or 3 low grit diamond stones otherwise your 3 basic stones will be worn out.pretty soon by those super steels. I mean you can still use the three basic stones to sharpen and achieve reasonably sharp edges but its gonna take much much more time.
 
I sprung for the all diamond Lanksy so I know how it works. You don't need to get better stones, you need a better system. Lansky is dog sh*t for modern alloys. The other cheap system, the sharpmaker, can handle every modern alloy I threw at it plus it helped me learn wrist memory for when I do free hand at work and sharpening to a bur to get rid of flats/chips.
 
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