New to Blade Sharpening - Australian

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huskie

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G'day guys,

I'm new to blade sharpening, looked through a few forums watched alot of videos, and have a bunch of kitchen and fishing knives that need sharpening. I was wondering if there are any aussies on here that may be able to point me to a good supplier of sharpening tools in AUS, however would still take recommendations for any USA based suppliers that ship internationally.

Also, would love some recommendations for a good starter kit that i can build up as time goes on.

Cheers.

Andy
 
Andy, not from OZ and don't know which folks ship internationally, but I can recommend the Work Sharp Ken Onion edition sharpener. With that and an ultrafine Arkansas stone and a strop, all my desires to sharpen are met. I don't really need anything beyond the Work Sharp to get really keen edges, but something about me can't resist stropping or polishing up on my translucent Arkansas even if a given knife is already sharp. You can expand on the WSKO by adding the blade grinding attachment and whatever belts you wish, I would actually recommend the leather belt they offer for the blade grinding attachment.

Best wishes, and keep 'em sharp!
 
great thanks for the advice! just to confirm is this the device that you are referring too?

Only prob witht electric is that we are on 240~ here, and the plug is different (not a huge concern but all the same),

Pref looking into hand sharpening with stones.

But thanks again! :)
 
Yes brother that's the one that I'm referring to. But if you're more interested in non-powered methods, I will strongly recommend that you look at the KME sharpening system. I feel that one can be more precise with a guided system, and the KME I feel like is the best value in guided system systems out there. http://www.kmesharp.com/ I would recommend the diamond kit, and a really fine stone, I like the translucent Arkansas.

Regards--Don
 
huskie

I bought a Worksharp in Australia. There is an importer in Queensland who does appropriate power conversions and sells with full warranty etc. You should be able to find them via Google. They don't have the Onion model as yet but are working on it. As for non powered stuff KME sells internationally and there are no restrictions on importation of this type of gear. DMT make good stuff and the Spyderco Sharpmaker is handy to have - both of these brands are not hard to find in Australia.
 
If your willing to free hand you can just pick up a sharpening stone and some compound and we try to get you started there. I imagine that should be widely available to you, if so could you tell us what you have available and we try to sort through it for recommendations. Though off hand for starting out a Norton Cystolon and/or India combination stones are quite a good start. With any luck that will be available to you quite easily.

In fact I am using their lower end versions of those, their Economy version and can get some good results coming off those and using some of the cheapest green compound known to man which probably makes some people on this forum cringe at the mere thought of using. And I am using the compound on a piece of 3x5 notecard and latter on plan on building my own leather and denim strops. So I imagine once we acquire the basic equipment like stones and compound the other stuff you can easily build yourself on the cheap and won't be hard to acquire the parts to do so.

If your just starting out I highly recommend giving free hand a try if it doesn't scare you. There is a very big perk to this as it is far more versatile and far less limitations to free hand sharpening in comparison to guided setups. Guided setups such as lanskys, kme, etc usually have issues concerning the lowest angle you can put on a knife as well as how big or small of a blade it accept and there may or may not be work around to such issues.
 
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