Lansky Sharpener

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Outdoorsmn

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I'm looking to buy a Lansky Sharpening system in the next few days and wondered if anyone could give me any feedback. I'm looking at the one with three stones that are used at pre-set angles with the blade being held in a clamp. Also, how is the serated stone on it-good? Any info is appreciated. Smoky Mountain has it for 21.99.


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"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have."
(Theodore Roosevelt, 1903)
 
Hi Outdoorsmn,

I have had the Lansky deluxe 4 hone diamond set for at least 6 years now and I've sharpened hundreths of knives on it.
It still performs alright although the extra coarse diamond stone has smoothened a lot but it still performs OK.
My friend has the 5 stone ceramic version from Lansky and this works also just fine for him.

Take care not to slip over the blade when it's a large one and you reach for the parts of the blade fartest away, I have screatched some blades doing this.
Also there is a possibility that the plastic holder cracks were the metal "leader" is inserted and fastend but this happened to me after 2 years of heavy use and it just gave way without me having noticed fractures.
It happened with the "orange" so fine stone and the knife I did was sharp as ... and I cut my thumb almost to the bone
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Lansky replaced the stone fast and since then "No More Problemos" .

Take care that the aluminium clamp doesn't scratch the blade were you clamp it to the blade. This happens because oil and metal particles can get between the clamp and the blade and also because during sharpening it can loosen somewhat and movement of the clamp scratches the finish.

Otherwise, a very neat handy dependable sharpener.

Keep Sharp,

Regards from Holland,

Bagheera

PS Almost forgot, the triangular stone for sharpening serated blades works fine as long as the serrations are wide enough for it, your out of luck with Cold Steel serations (Lynn Thompson doesn't even sharpen these serated blades himself
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[This message has been edited by Bagheera (edited 04-18-2000).]
 
I have to say it is a great sharpening system. The only problems I have found with it is on blades with a distal taper. The clamp cannot tighten down good enough on this type of blade. If anyone has solved this I would love to hear it.

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Lee

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Outdoorsmn,
I have one and, frankly, don't like it very much. I much prefer crock sticks or my old bench stone. If you're interested, I wouldn't mind selling it.
MN
 
MichLee-

Maybe this seems ignorant, but what exactly is a distal taper?

MnBlade-


What don't you like about the Lansky? I a am attracted to the pre-set angles.

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"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have."
(Theodore Roosevelt, 1903)
 
I too have a Lansky I've used twice and would sell. I have just the one you are talking about and even bought it from Smoky. To be honest, I hate the thing but I'm not exactly the greatest knife sharpener in world.

1. Scratches blade as mentioned.
2. Takes a long time to do a big blade (ie: K-bar).
 
Proximal is the part of the knife closest to the body and distal is further away from the body. These terms are generic and can be applied to body parts or other things as well but they are commonly used in anatomy and biology. Proximal really means "nearest." Anywho, a distally tapered blade is a blade that gets thinner and thinner, the further or more "distal" you go towards the tip of the blade. Some sharpening tools have a hard time clamping blades like this because they are not "square."



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The low, hoarse purr of the whirling stone—the light-press’d blade,
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I have been using a Lansky system you several years, I started with the "deluxe" set, 5 hones, but I use a Diamond set now. I have a small sharpening business, mostly for fellow LEO's. I suggest that you get at least the 5-hone set and a pedestal. Good luck!

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I have the Deluxe 5 piece set too. I like it, but I had to buy a Sharpmaker 204 to go with it. The only thing that I don't like about the Lansky is that it takes a while to set up (compared to the Sharpmaker) and I have had a hard time cleaning the stones (especially the extra coarse).

I have never had any trouble with it scratching my blades. Here's a trick you might try... Take a small piece of napkin or paper towell about 1 1/2 inch square. Fold the napkin piece over the spine of the knife and then clamp the knife in with the napkin attached. you can tear off any excess napkin and the whole part of the blade under the clamp will still be covered. This works for me to sharpen my folders up to 3.5" because I can do the entire blade without un-doing the clamp. If you have to move the clamp I'd suggest not tearing off the excess and just loosening the clamp enough to slide it to the next part of the blade and then clamp it down and off you go. It's really quite easy and I haven't scratched a single blade since I bought the thing a year ago! I guess you could also use a bigger piece of napkin that covered the entire spine of the blade if you were sharpening a larger knife and it would be just as easy to move the clamp along as it is without the napkin.

I like to use the Lansky for reprofiling or sharpening very dull knives, but I use the Sharpmaker for light touch-ups because it's easy to set up. The other thing I like about the Lansky is that the stones are easy to use free hand too if you need to if you just need to use one quickly and don't want to set up the whole thing.

Oh yeah, one more thing... the stones (x-coarse to med.) seem to get gummed up pretty quickly and need to be cleaned more often than I'd like. The diamond stones might not have that problem, but I don't know.
 
Frag-

Thanks for the info--you said that the stones gummed up easy--how was the best way to clean them?

Outdoorsmn

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"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have."
(Theodore Roosevelt, 1903)
 
Hey Guys...

I've had the same problem with Tapered blades..

What I do is use small pieces of duct tape on the spine to shim up the blade a little..

The clamp won't hold quite as well but if you tighten enuf,,it will hold for the job..

You can also tape the blade partially with masking tape to protect from scratching.

ttyle

Eric..

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