Lansky vs. Spyderco

V10011011:
If you are really determined to get that Lansky at Canadian Tire, then just put your wallet back in your pocket.

Here's my offer. Email me your mailing address and I will send you my used Lansky Deluxe Kit. I purchased one or two extra stones too, but they'll all fit in the case. The stones are used but, as I recall, are still flat with no hollows. (No sense keeping it around, since I never use it anymore).

In return you can post a follow-up for DB's benefit, that TT2Toes WAS telling the truth and had a Lansky, used it, and moved on to a better system.

How's that, fair enough?

Mind you, I have REAL reservations about sending this to you, because I really think it's a bad sharpening system. And, the problems with this system are in its design, independent of how adept the operator is. Like I said, I'd really hate for you to mess up your blade over the long run.

You can pull my email address off my personal profile info on BladeForums and send me your mailing address.

Cheers Bro',
TT2Toes
 
Wow, thanks a lot for the offer. Mailing address has been emailed, after I recieve it and test it out, I'll try to give a good review for it and my opinion after I use it.
 
Well that's a tough offer to beat :)

Lot's a great information in this thread. Good job guys! :)

I like the Edge-Pro System with the 204 for touch-ups myself, but I sharpen more knives on the Norton Tri-Stone set-up than anything else...
 
V10011011:
No worries, glad to help. Someday you'll do a good turn for somebody else.

There's the following 5 stones in the kit: serrated, 120x coarse, 280x medium, 600x fine, and a 1000x ultra-fine. I bought the 1000x stone separately and it didn't come with a guide-rod, so there's only 4 rods. (see pic link below)

Hopefully I can get it into the mail this weekend - - just don't expect it overnight.

Cheers,
TT2Toes
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Thanks again, very generous offer

1000 grit is more than enough to put a razor edge on a blade right?
One less guide rod, what does that mean? All it means is that I would need to take the stone off a rod and interchange it with another stone instead of just swapping rods and stones right?
 
V10011011:
Yep, 1000x is more than fine enough to put a razor sharp edge on your knife. With practice and some skill with honing pressure, you'll be able to hone hair shaving edges with even a 280x. Remember, 1000x is better for push cuts, not for slicing. (IMO)

Yep, with just 4 rods you'll need to swap a rod to use all 5 stones. But, chances are you'll use the serrated stone the least often. (You really only need one guide-rod, just swap between the stones. But when you're sharpening several knives at a sitting, it's nice to have all the rods installed in each of the stones.)

TT2Toes
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That's a great system TT is setting you up with. Great offer TT! With a little time you should be able to put a killer edge on. A tip I do for the Lansky; I hold or clamp the hone so it doesn't move, and instead move the knife across the hone. Almost like you are free hand sharpening. This will help you learn how to free hand sharpen, and in fact I do all my touchups now with a Spydy double stuff hone, or a Ark bench hone. Give it a try if you don't like how Lansky tells ya to do it, the Lan. way was awkward for me..
 
That is a cool thing to do TT2Toes. Since you're not using it, he may as well try to.

You CAN get a wicked sharp edge with the Lansky. Just try using something to hold that clamp steady like a bench vise or something and I think you'll get great results... but I also think you will get tired of setting all that stuff up every single time you want to sharpen a knife and eventually get fed up and buy a Sharpmaker.

Good Luck!:D
 
Thanks guys. Q: On the Lansky, do you move the stone side to side (horizontally) across the blade or up and down (vertically) like how blades are factory ground?
 
V10011011, I uses both directions in a sweeping motion. I start at the choil and push the stone up and across the blade at the same time. Hope this helps.
 
It doesn't really matter how or what direction you grind until you get a bur on both sides. After the bur is formed I do the same as 5.0. For the very last few strokes I pull the edge across the hone just barely going down at all.
 
After the 1000 grit hone, would I be able to see grind marks on the edge at all?
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If you spend enough time on each progressive grit (to make sure all the scratches are removed from the last grit), the 1000 grit hone should leave the edge looking darned near mirror polished. If you use a loaded strop with some rouge or something similar after the 1000 grit, it would be mirror polished.
 
Hi,

I chipped the tip of my small MT Small-UDT, and need to fix it. It used to be my edc. I have the Sharpmaker, and have used it to sharpen all of my knives to hair poppin sharpness.

The chip is about 1/8" I think, or so. I contacted MT, and they said they would re-grind the blade and refit the blade for $50.00. I don't want to pay that.

Do you think I can use my Sharpmaker to somehow re-profile this blade and get fix it so the tip is not chipped? How would I do this? I do not want to ruin the blade, and I love the blade shape of the UDT, so, I want to maintain the same shape.

What do I need to do, using the Sharpmaker, to fix the knife? Or, is it even possible?

Let me know quickly, as I feel I will be up all night, and I feel like doing it now...

Ciao!
 
Lundo,

Depending on what you mean by chipping the tip, you can easily fix it very inexpensively. Fixing chips on the sharpmaker would take way too long. Go get yourself an inexpensive coarse/fine combo hone- they sell Norton combo hones at Walmart here for something like $7! ALternately, you can go get some 180 grit and 400 grit wet/dry sandpaper. Work the bevels on the tip of the knife on the coarse side of the stone, or the 180 grit sandpaper. If you are using the paper, it should be mounted somehow. You can glue it to a flat scrap of wood, or if you have a flat and smooth surface, you can wet the surface and the paper will stay on it. Anyways, the prinicple here is to work out the dent on the coarse material you have. I find that circular movements quickly remove material. Find your bevel angle and do a dozen or so circles on the one side of the tip, flip and repeat. Keep doing this until the tip's chip is removed. With the chip removed, you can go to the fine side of the hone (or the 400 grit sandpaper). Take full strokes along the whole edge this time, to hel even things out and make it all smooth. now you are ready for your sharpmaker! On the coarse stone corners, sharpen on one side only until you raise a burr, then sharpen on the other side only until you raise a burr. Then do a dozen alternating strokes and follow the "normal" sharpening instructions. All you are doing here is putting on a microbevel at the edge. Enjoy!
 
V10011011:
You should be receiving the Lansky kit in about 4 - 10 days. Hope it serves you better than I - - just remember my word of caution.

Be sure to let us all know when you receive it.

Cheers,
TT2Toes
 
I sharpen knives every Sunday at the gun club [ local knife guy ].

I have many sharpening systems, hones, rods, etc.

I basically use two items for all the chores now.

If the knife needs reprofiling on the edge due to neglect/long use I put one of those V-grind hand tools that use the carbide cutters "crossed". I drag this over the blade several times and it hogs steel very quickly. This gives me a primary grind again.

Then I use the 204 [I have a real old one that only has the one angle in the base unit ].

20 passes with the course on both sides, several passes with the white sticks and the knife is done.

If they are hard used, I leave the edge to the course stones only and do not polish it with the whites.

From butter knife to shaving hair in 5 minutes. I make money sharpening so I am not about to put a razor edge on a knife for a customer who only abuses his equipment.

If the customer keeps that particular blade for defensive purposes only I'll take the extra time to make it "scary sharp".

My sharpmaker has to have sharpened well over 5000 knives in the ten years or so I have used it. Doesn't look new but still does the job it was intended to do.

Brownie
 
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