Lansky stones and quality control

TheChunk91

TheChunk91

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I bought some arkansas stones to play around with on the lansky to see how I liked them before forking out the cash for the more expensive arkansas stone options for the edge pro.

I really do like the arkansas stones so far but the quality control from lansky is horrible. On two of these the glue set up while the end of the stones weren’t even clamped down properly. The stone that was glued to the base properly is much thinner that the others, and all of these have a different thickness than the regular aluminum oxide stones. With the lansky you have to make up stone thickness difference in how deep you set the rod on the stone holder, which is not an exact procedure so that makes consistency with these a bit harder.

I did contact the place I bough these from so they should swap me for some good ones, I’m not worried about that, but I was curious if anyone else had seen this kind of poor QC from lansky. Really kind of surprising. These inconsistencies could give someone a real headache who hasn’t yet learned much about sharpening and doesn’t get why their consistent angle lansky sharpener isn’t sharpening very consistently.

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The black and red are the standard alum oxide stones. These aren’t lined up perfectly but the varying thickness of the arkansas stones is obvious.

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Those stones and plastic holders in general look very badly made, without mentioning varying thickness.
At least for me they are below any standards.
I would return the whole Lansky thing together with plastic box and buy something else.
 
I’ve had the lansky for years and have used it with good success, it is a good budget sharpening system. Definitely imperfect but works well if you know what you are doing.

I bought the arkansas stones as an add on but was just surprised with the poor quality control. I haven’t had that issue with lansky products in the past and wanted to know if others experienced similar issues.
 
TheChunk91 said:
I’ve had the lansky for years and have used it with good success, it is a good budget sharpening system. Definitely imperfect but works well if you know what you are doing.

I bought the arkansas stones as an add on but was just surprised with the poor quality control. I haven’t had that issue with lansky products in the past and wanted to know if others experienced similar issues.
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Your originals were probably made in USA when their quality was good, now made in China.
 
cudgee said:
now made in China
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Only Lansky is responsible for the quality of products they sell. Makes no difference where they are made. If Lansky get those stones and holders from wherever they are, Lansky should have quality check of those parts before they use them in final product and sell them.
 
TheOne45 said:
Only Lansky is responsible for the quality of products they sell. Makes no difference where they are made. If Lansky get those stones and holders from wherever they are, Lansky should have quality check of those parts before they use them in final product and sell them.
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I agree, the point i was trying to make is that when they were made in USA they did seem to be of better quality.
 
I know Lansky as a well reputated brand. Those stones look really bad.
I bought 3 Lansky sharpeners recently (my family gifted them to me as a Christmas present). Medium and fine ceramic hones for serrated knives (dark red and tan stone holder) and a diamond retractable sharpening pen. All three are ok. The fine stone has some minor chips at the end (looking from the cross section). It is not glued perfectly flat (other than the medium hone).
But that's ok.
If I had seen your images before I ordered mine, I don't know if I bought them anyhow.
That they sell stuff like this is surprising.
 
cudgee said:
when they were made in USA they did seem to be of better quality.
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I don't doubt that.
Still, it's a difference which company you choose. For example, a Chinese company is making some compression moulding tooling for us (made of carbide hardness) and it's top quality.
Could also be they just buy them from Aliexpress and they use what they get. Much simpler.

Papilio said:
That they sell stuff like this is surprising.
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Yes, it is, but I guess they significantly cut expenses buying from China. This is what counts these days.
The question is are they doing this only to make more profit and selling those sharpeners at the same price as when they were made in USA or they lowered the prices.
 
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