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I'm looking for a cheap pull-through sharpener with preset angles,this will be for in the field sharpening and until i get a sharpmaker.
I've been looking at the Smith's 2 step sharpener and the case xx pocket sharpener.
 
your home built model seems to have around 60-70 degrees inclusive or is it just the angle of the photo?
 
wreckager said:
I'm looking for a cheap pull-through sharpener with preset angles,this will be for in the field sharpening and until i get a sharpmaker.
I've been looking at the Smith's 2 step sharpener and the case xx pocket sharpener.
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Save your edges from ruin and buy yourself a small pocket stone or stash some wet-dry sandpaper and use that.They are both cheap and will do the job. Pull through sharpeners suck and will mess up your knife.
 
I have been using it for about 12 years and I have always had razor sharp knifes. you dont know what you are talking about. I bought a factory one then copyed the angle and put the closer so you just have to pull your knife through and not having to worry if you are holding you knife at the right angle. I made my blocks about 2 inches longer to made the platform more stable when you are using it too.
 
The Case XX sucks. IMO the Lansky Quick Fix is the best pull through I've ever used.
 
wreckager said:
As another alternative,are lansky croc sticks any good?
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The lansky croc sticks are good but will often give you a micro bevel rather than matching up to the full edge angle due to the fixed angle.

I use them alot on kitchen knives. They shouldnt rag up the edge like smaller cheap pull through sharpeners because youre using the length of the croc stick to actually sharpen the blade rather than scraping it through a tungsten or ceramic V shaped slot...
 
Stay away from pull through sharpeners, its a quick way to a bad edge.

DMT makes a product called the diafold..... check it out.
 
richard thurman said:
I have been using it for about 12 years and I have always had razor sharp knifes. you dont know what you are talking about. I bought a factory one then copyed the angle and put the closer so you just have to pull your knife through and not having to worry if you are holding you knife at the right angle. I made my blocks about 2 inches longer to made the platform more stable when you are using it too.
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No offense but you may not know what you are talking about. What you have shown is not what everyone calls a pull thru sharpener. A pull through sharpener is hand held and quite small and have 2 pieces of carbide that scrape the edge into a terrible somewhat serrated edge.

What you have copied is similar to the Lansky crock sticks V sharpener or the Spyderco Sharp maker. Very different than a pull thru sharpener.
 
DMT makes a product called the diafold..... check it out.
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I bought these x-coarse, coarse, fine, x-fine, xx-fine and have 3 good strops now. Best money I ever spent on sharpeners.

That reminds me to put my SharpMaker with all the extra rods up for sale this weekend. Get the Dia-Folds and never look back. :thumbup:
 
Pull through sharpeners just make a big messy burr, I don't consider them a sharpening tool at all.
If you want a cheap way to sharpen, get a 6" or 8" dual grit aluminum oxide stone from your local hardware store. They usually cost about $10, are rough enough to put an edge on quickly, and the fine (or "less rough" by my standards) side of the stone can produce a shaving edge once you learn how (lots of strokes with very little pressure).
I clean them off with a toothbrush intermittently to keep it from clogging up.
 
FlaMtnBkr said:
No offense but you may not know what you are talking about. What you have shown is not what everyone calls a pull thru sharpener. A pull through sharpener is hand held and quite small and have 2 pieces of carbide that scrape the edge into a terrible somewhat serrated edge.

What you have copied is similar to the Lansky crock sticks V sharpener or the Spyderco Sharp maker. Very different than a pull thru sharpener.
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if that is so then why is all of my knifes are razor sharp??? first of all my handles are much bigger that what they have. every one that i have sold too has brought friends back to me to buy them. if it is so bad then why is every one that I have sold too is so happy with them???
 
richard thurman said:
if that is so then why is all of my knifes are razor sharp??? first of all my handles are much bigger that what they have. every one that i have sold too has brought friends back to me to buy them. if it is so bad then why is every one that I have sold too is so happy with them???
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You are missing the point, re-read what I wrote. What you have made is NOT a pull through sharpener. You have made a sharp maker clone except with round rods and there is nothing wrong with what you have made. The sharp maker is well loved for a reason and, like yours, uses ceramic rods.

A pull through sharpener is different and uses pieces of carbide and are terrible. Here is what a typical pull thru sharpener looks like:


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wreckager said:
so would a croc stick work? or is it a waste of money?
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IMO, Lansky Crock Sticks are an excellent investment. The kit is small enough to take on a hunt, yet is capable of giving a hair popping polished edge to your knives with little fuss. Along a similar vein, Spyderco's Sharpmaker is an excellent system as well.
 
I use pull-through sharpeners all the time. I see good and bad points.

Good: Quick, easy, fast, create a serviceable edge, inexpensive, light, compact, easy to carry, the abrasive ceramic puts on a new edge in addition to straightening the old wobbly micro-edge. They are readily available in two different angles. The yellow Walmart sharpener ($3-4) has an edge (I measured) about 22 degrees, good for general purpose pocketknives. The red plastic ones that come packaged with those fishing knives from Finland have a finer edge, about 16-18 degrees, better cutting but not as durable or long lasting Which I don't find to be a problem because the edge is so easy to touch up with these little sharpeners.

Bad: The little ceramic rods fill up rapidly with steel, and cleaning is not easy. I use those well-advertised"scrubbing Bubbles" foam cleaner on all my ceramic sharpeners, and it floats the pores pretty clean. As was mentioned here previously, these sharpeners will round the points, so you need to use a flat stone to keep the points pointy.

My Lansky diamond set is a wonder, but I find myself using these little draw-through sharpeners most because I can just grab one, slide the knife through a few times, and I'm good to go.
 
FlaMtnBkr said:
You are missing the point, re-read what I wrote. What you have made is NOT a pull through sharpener. You have made a sharp maker clone except with round rods and there is nothing wrong with what you have made. The sharp maker is well loved for a reason and, like yours, uses ceramic rods.

A pull through sharpener is different and uses pieces of carbide and are terrible. Here is what a typical pull thru sharpener looks like:


byers_knife_sharpener.jpg
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so you are talking about the sharpner like the one in the picture then. I have seen those and I can get them really cheap but I think that they are a peace of junk and I will not sell them.
 
I don't like those pull throughs. This site....edgemaker.com has: sharpens Benchmade & Spyderco knives (and a lot more) I tried it on my BM and put a ding in my edge when the rods chattered! :eek: It took a lot of work to get that edge back straight again..

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BTW: Is anyone NOT getting email confirmations on subscribed posts or is it just me? :confused:
 
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