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jimh0220

jimh0220

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I know that all of you have to own an inexpensive, pre angled sharpener. Even you sharpening purists need a quickie touch up once in a while when your fancy setup is not practical.

So here's the challenge: admit to what you have. I have a 2 slot chef's choice manual sharpener that does a good job putting an edge on most of my knives in about 15 seconds. I love it!
 
Piece of weld tungsten used for tig torches they come in about 6" pieces maybe 1/16"-3/32" piece works fine as a small "steel". Happen to have them around in the shop I work at.
 
I have a aligner clamp I use on my benchstones for special jobs but 99% of my sharpening is freehand. Besides that I have no pre set angle thingy.
 
jimh0220 said:
I know that all of you have to own an inexpensive, pre angled sharpener. Even you sharpening purists need a quickie touch up once in a while when your fancy setup is not practical.
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I have a Lansky mini crock stick sharpener, but I haven't used if for a few months. For a quickie touch up I use a leather strop with green compound - hard to screw up the current bevel angle with a strop and I can use whatever angle suits the knife. My mini crocks stick did a good job on my SAK & LM - but my strop works just as quickly and easily and gets the same blades sharper.

I just don't see any advantage in using the crock sticks - the strop is quick & easy and does a good job.
 
A flat hard rock is good for quick touchups.Those preangled pull through sharpeners mangle edges.
 
I have never owned one of those things, and never will.

If I want to touch my knife out someplace, my sharpener is always with me. A cut down Eze-lap model L is always in my wallet. It always sharpens my knife just fine.

I don't believe in any of those sharpening gadgets of any kind.
 
Pull through sharpeners are a torture for a knife. In ´the field´ I use my Fallkniven DC4 to sharpen it. Gives a fine working edge and I strop it up when I am home.
 
A nice strip of fine grit wet/dry sandpaper on a smooth flat surface makes a great sharpening system.Follow it with a leather strop and it's hard to beat.
 
I reprofile with a Lansky or GATCO. For knives that already have a decent edge bevel, I'll occasionally touch 'em up with a Spyderco DoubleStuff ceramic stone (mostly for removing what's left of the factory burr). For the VAST majority of everything else, I use a couple of strops for maintenance. First with green compound on leather, then on bare leather alone. The strops account for at least 95% of all of my edge maintenance. Seldom need any more than that.

I have two or three different sets/brands of the crock-stick style sharpeners, haven't used any of them in at least 15 years. I bought a Sharpmaker about 8 or 10 years ago, but I've never used it (started freehanding my touch-ups with the DoubleStuff stone around the same time, and never looked back). In fact, I don't remember if I even opened up the Sharpmaker package. It's still stashed away in storage somewhere.

I bought one of the 'pre-angled' pull-through sharpeners with ceramic inserts a while back, just to see what it can do. HATE IT (yecch!). I'll never waste money on one of those again.
 
My quicky touch up is either my ceramic steel in the knife block in the kitchen, or a Spyderco Double Stuff. Only angle gide thing I have is a Lansky clamp and haven't used it in years. Heck I don't even beleive in holding to an angle anymore.Keep the spine down under 20 degrees and don't even think aboutholding an angle
 
Apparently I'm theonly one who uses a pre angled sharpener. You're making me look lazy:mad:. Come on, even the much beloved Spyderco makes one. Am I the only one in this forum??? I feel so dirty...
 
I have one. Use it once in a blue moon. Does OK when you need a really quick and dirty touch up. And they seem to work fine for average non-knife-nut folk.
 
My mother had one of those pull-through things back in the '50s and '60s. Made my dad and I wince in pain to see what she did to blades. I think that's about what they're good for, at least the ones I've seen: destroying blades, and making people who respect knives wince.

There are any number of ways to touch up a blade without resorting to one of those things. YMMV, of course.
 
jimh0220 said:
Apparently I'm theonly one who uses a pre angled sharpener. You're making me look lazy:mad:. Come on, even the much beloved Spyderco makes one. Am I the only one in this forum??? I feel so dirty...
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Well my Dad gave me his old pre-angled goodies some years back , it was two ceramic rods with 4 different holes in a piece of wood for the two angles. I could never get it to work right and it seemed I spent more time cleaning those rods than using my knives.

When I was a kid my Grandpa Reynolds taught me how to use a stone , he flat ground all of his knives and they were not pretty but they cut like nothing else ( he used spit for stone lube by the way ) :D
I lost this skill for a few years , took me a year or so to get it back and I'm not losing it again in favor of those contraptions , no matter who makes them.

There's a certain statisfaction to sharpening with stones. IMO

:)

Tostig
 
I builed my own sharpners. I have been useing it for about 15 years and It get my knifes razor sharp. It does not screw up the blade. I will not use any thing else.
 
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