Razor-Edge Products.... Comments??

steve-in-kville

steve-in-kville

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I have both the Lansky sharpener and Sharpmaker. Both seem to have their place (more so with the Sharpmaker), but I remember seeing Razor's products being mentioned every once in a while here.

I searched the subject, but the only applicable post involved a few guys who are now banned (TTO I think was one of them :rolleyes: ) so I don't know how reliable that content would have been.

Anyway, I'd like to hear some feedback on Razor-Edge products, customer service, etc. I am seriously considering getting one of their kits. Thanks.


steve
 
I have the deluxe professional super duper or whatever it is called kit from them. Their service is wondeful. I have no idea how it could have been any better. The company is a family owned business and it is run with the honor you would expect from such a company. I would readily do business with them again.

I first learned of the company from the book they published about sharpening. I highly reccomend it. You will get much more out of their products with the book. I don;t think you can go wrong with them.
 
I bought their guides and hones several years ago. After doing a web search on sharpening, I came across Joe Talmadge's article on sharpening, hones, ect. In that article he talked about the Razor Edge Book of Sharpening. I bought the book. Great information. Afterwards I bought their guides and hones. They honestly do a very good job of sharpening, when you follow the advice given in their book.

Customer service is excellent. A couple of years after owning their products a screw stripped in one of the guides. They promptly replaced it....I can recommend them and their products.
 
They're a good company and reputable folks, but I'm not to keen on their product. The hones are good, very good, but expensive. The guides are the key to their system and could be used with any hones, so consider getting just the guides and trying them out on less expensive hones.

But its the guides themselves that just don't do it for me... They are relatively difficult to mount on the knife, and very difficult to mount in exactly the same place every time. They don't have <b>any</b> multi-angle option. If you don't like their angle, tough. Finally, the guides get ground down by the hone just like the knife. After a while, the their angle must keep getting shallower. This is especially a problem on the corner of the guides which you hit when doing the knife's tip area...

That being said they do work, and will handle the thicker knives like the 1/4" thick Busses, and others, which is not the case with many of the other systems...
 
Do another search with the key word as passaround or justrazor because there is a Razor edge system passaround going on right now. I just passed it on and I feel the same way as matthew does. Btw I have a Lansky and like it better, but I only use it to reprofile an edge. Most of my sharpening is done free hand on a bench stone.
 
I have the pro kit (second best) and like it alot. I find that the coarse hone cuts FAST and the fine hone leaves a nice shaving but toothy edge. The guides do take some time to learn how to use. I almost sent my kit back because I was having troubles. But now I like 'em. The kit did improve my freehand sharpenign abilities, just like Joe Talmadge said it would in the FAQ.

What I really like about the kit is how portable and fast it is. I end up sharpening knives for family members a lot, and I sharpen knives for a group home that my fiancee works at. I use predominantly my Razor's Edge kit for these jobs and it does them fast with great results.

Cons? Guides take a while to learn to use, not as versatile angle-wise as other kits out there, and the guides wear down.

Pros? Great for improving freehand sharpening, I love the stones- they work fast and put nice edges on blades. Folding steel is a genius idea. Very portable.
 
I second the above comments on the Razoredge Book of Sharpening. It contains a wealth of knowledge on sharpening in general and edge geometry--whether you use their system or some other sharpening devices or methods.
 
I bought the deluxe kit a few years ago. With the book, which is excellent, I was finally able to consistently sharpen for the first time.

I also now have the 204 with the ultrafine stones and the diamond rods.

I rarely use the RES fine stone, but the course one gets regular use. I lean it inside one of the rods of the 204 to maintain angle consistency with the 204 when a blade needs to be totally re-profiled. Works great.

I quit using the RES guides because they do wear down, meaning you'll get progressively thinner edges.

I still use the edge tester quite a bit. It's great for checking an edge without damaging it noticeably.
 
The razor edge system works great for me.

The razor edge guy can sharpen a axe so good that he can shave his face with it!

What else is there to say?

The hones are not cheap, but they work!
The hones wear down and do not last forever, but they work!

It takes sometime to clamp the guides onto the blade, but they work!

The book is not the best book I have ever read, but everything he say's in it is true and works!

The system will not work on every type of knife out there, but it works on every knife I have and that's all I care about.

Anyway did I say how well the razor edge system works :)
 
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