Lansky Diamond deluxe sharpenercentering problem

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Hi All,
Kinda new to really sharpening a knife and started slow with a Sharpmaker but realized I needed to re-profile most of my old, over sharpened knives so I bought a Lansky Diamond Deluxe setup. Worked great & all my old knives are like razors. Well now it's time to touch them up and I am finding from using the Sharpmaker that the Lansky always has a different angle on one side than the other so the Sharpmaker isn't as effective. It seems that the clamp of the Lansky is flat to the blade on one side and cants a bit on the other so your always off 5 -10 degrees on one side. I hope this makes some sense. I tried a few different ways to put the blade in with and without rubber or paper to hold the blade square but none were very effective and even tried doing one side shifting the cant and doing the other but it seems like a lot of work and I must be missing something. Any help would be appreciated. Considering a large 3 stone setup but sure seems like the long, hard way to do it. Thanks for any input
 
It would help to know what knives you are sharpening. Pictures would be a great help. Does the knife you are clamping have a flat sided spine?

I had a similar problem with my Benchmade 580. The spine was not flat but angled. When I put pressure on one side of the knife the blade would shift in the clamp and change the angle. Yet another reason why I am going free hand instead of the Lansky.
 
I had the same problem at first. I was screwing down the screw as tight as possible and not really using the red handled screw. Try screwing the screw and the red handle in tandem to make the gap between the two clamp halves equal distance. This solved the problem for me.
 
A pic of the knife in the clamp (viewed closely, from the side) would be a huge help, and likely would help solve this pretty quickly. Almost everything comes down to the blade grind (maybe asymmetric), and proper mounting in the clamp (clamping faces not flush with blade's sides, for example). A pic will usually make obvious what's going on, and therefore make it easier to recommend a fix.


David
 
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