Lansky Delux System

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phillip50

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One more question sorry, stinks to be a new guy. Any way I just bought a Lansky Delux with five stones off ebay. Friend of mine said his dad loved his and they were easy to use. What does one need to know in order to effectively use a Lansky system?

Thanks again, Phillip
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To keep from scratching your blades put a small piece of rag under the clamp jaws. Make sure that the two halves of the clamp are parallel or slightly narrower at the jaws when tightened. Get everything good and tight, the jaws and the guide rods. Make sure that the guide rods are straight, level with the stones, and in line with the stones.

Be patient, especialy when initialy profiling a new blade. I usually do a few passes on each side then switch sides but the closer it gets to being done I go down to one pass per side and I start to decrease the pressure being applied.

Good Luck and Welcome to the Forum
 
Originally posted by phillip50
One more question sorry, stinks to be a new guy...
Thanks again, Phillip
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Don't worry about it. Ask as many questions as you have to. A lot of us are wondering the same thing often enough!

Ditto on Big Deeee's suggestion for using a rag so you don't scratch up your blades (unless you don't care). Slightly moistening the rag will help prevent slipping too.

I suggest practising on a POS knife first (ahh finally, those cheap $10 "made in India" or "made in China" knives are good for something!). You may notice that if you don't clamp the blade at a symmetric area, you may get uneven bevels. That is you'll have steeper and wider bevels on one end of a knife than the other. This is prone to happen if your blade has excessive curves and recurves.

I noticed Emerson Knives just put some basic honing tips on their website (although he doesn't cover Lansky type systems).
 
What is the best angle to use when sharpening for a spyderco's or how do you find the right angle to use? Thanks again, Phillip
 
If you want to keep the same edge it came wth, use the good ol magic marker technique. Take a black marker and color the entire edge. Choose an angle you think is close, and VERY lightly move the stone over the blade. If the marker is completely removed you have the right angle. If not, pick a new angle and repeat.
 
I love my lansky, since I have a tought time keeping a constant angle with a bench stone. I like the magik marker trick.:)
 
About the angles and the magic marker trick, if you find that none of the 4 pre-made angles covers the angle properly (and it often doesnt), you can change the angle slightly by adjusting the angle slightly by changing the distance that you insert the guide rod into the hones..

for example, inserting the guide rod deeper into the hone (well, not the hone itself but the plasticky hone holder)you get a shallower angle, and if u pull it out a bit you get a bigger angle. Lansky suggests lining up the rod to the botton of the hone for the angle that is specified on the system, so u can work from that.
 
Thanks guys, I touched a old xikar knife/cigar cutter first and got it back to shaving and then I tackled my Spyderco Shabaria and it took a little getting use to with the curved blade, but slicing good as new now. This is a nice little system IMHO. Thanks and God Bless You All, Phillip
 
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