New Sharpmaker fan

[lambertiana]

Well, after some unexplained wandering, my Sharpmaker showed up on my porch today. I ordered it specifically to get my sons into sharpening. I have been using bench stones since the early 70s, but my sons have never sharpened a knife, and have not been very confident when I told them that it is simply a matter of controlling the angle. My younger son, the one who is a knifeknut, always expresses amazement at the edges I can get.

I pulled the Sharpmaker out of the box, and my younger son pulled out his Native, which someone had borrowed and left with a pretty bad edge. I showed my son how a few strokes with the coarse, followed by the fine, would bring up a good edge (he really likes how he can control the angle just by keeping the blade perpendicular to the table). After a minute he took over, and likes it. So now he can sharpen his own knives.

Then I showed him how to use the strop to finish the edge and get it to the true hair popping stage. Maybe he will get good at sharpening after all.

 

[rbc]

After I used my sharpmaker to sharpen the kitchen knives of my Mother in law during one of our visits, she always looks forward to our visits for me to sharpen her knives.

I was able to make a new fan but not a new user.

 

[Maarten]

As a beginner with the sharpmaker i sometimes made the mistake slipping the tip on the corners of the rods. This will cause the tip to get blunt. Watch this interesting video ;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSG_W5BSwcw

I didn't come on the resharpnin of the tip in the base of the holder which as shown in the vid.
It actually resharpened the tip on my native which i dunked in a steal sink cleaning it

All credits to Dr. Snubnose for finding this usefull footage:thumbup: