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Hi all.
I thought I'd share something that might be useful to somebody with older Sharpmakers. I have an older model I purchased quite a few years ago. It doesn't have the cool self containing case, has one set of stones, and only one angle setting to sharpen. I've not really paid attention to sharpeners until recently, and of course learned the Sharpmaker has evolved and changed over the years. When I discovered Spyderco sells diamond and ultra-fine stones I was interested in adding them to my set up. However, when I called Spyderco customer service to ask if the current stones would fit my version of Sharpmaker, I was told that they would not work and were a different size. I would need to buy a new Sharpmaker. Anyway, I don't know why but I decided to order ultra-fines anyway just to see if they would work. If they didn't, I was going to order the current version of Sharpmaker, so I could use them. I was pleasantly surprised to find the new ultra-fine stones fit perfectly in my older sharpener. They are the same size as the stones that came with mine. See the pics below. As you probably know, the stone with the red marking is the ultra-fine. They do not wobble or move around any more than the original stones that came with my sharpener.
So, this post isn't to dis Spyderco for the answer I got, but it's to share with other folks that have a Sharpmaker like mine that they can buy the newer stones that weren't available in the past and you don't have to buy a new unit. Now, I don't know that this will be true for all of the Sharpmaker revisions, but if you have one like mine in the pictures I posted, you are probably in luck.
Stay sharp!
SD
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I thought I'd share something that might be useful to somebody with older Sharpmakers. I have an older model I purchased quite a few years ago. It doesn't have the cool self containing case, has one set of stones, and only one angle setting to sharpen. I've not really paid attention to sharpeners until recently, and of course learned the Sharpmaker has evolved and changed over the years. When I discovered Spyderco sells diamond and ultra-fine stones I was interested in adding them to my set up. However, when I called Spyderco customer service to ask if the current stones would fit my version of Sharpmaker, I was told that they would not work and were a different size. I would need to buy a new Sharpmaker. Anyway, I don't know why but I decided to order ultra-fines anyway just to see if they would work. If they didn't, I was going to order the current version of Sharpmaker, so I could use them. I was pleasantly surprised to find the new ultra-fine stones fit perfectly in my older sharpener. They are the same size as the stones that came with mine. See the pics below. As you probably know, the stone with the red marking is the ultra-fine. They do not wobble or move around any more than the original stones that came with my sharpener.
So, this post isn't to dis Spyderco for the answer I got, but it's to share with other folks that have a Sharpmaker like mine that they can buy the newer stones that weren't available in the past and you don't have to buy a new unit. Now, I don't know that this will be true for all of the Sharpmaker revisions, but if you have one like mine in the pictures I posted, you are probably in luck.
Stay sharp!
SD
Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk
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