It's my favorite system, and it's my favorite supplier of the system, kudos!!
And here is my favorite educational videos on using the system (as a first-time buyer).
2 knives from Monday afternoon to Monday midnight:
1 chinese knife from Tuesday afternoon to Tuesday midnight:
2 other knives from Wednesday afternoon to Wednesday midnight:
The Hapstone product is very precise (little play) hence unforgiving meaning you must be precise yourself in setting up the configuration and somehow "save" the settings for the first time. Then you obviously lose all your knife1 settings when you do a knife2, etc. When you eventually get back to knife1 (e.g. after 4 weeks of knife1 usage, for touching up with a 5000 stone), you want to re-set the settings to exactly the configuration before you had lost them for knife2 or do you want to start from scratch with knife1 then? Can you effing believe it, when i was looking up the configuration settings for knife1 and tried to reproduce them (after 4 weeks), i was doing so with a Sharpie, a digital calipers, and various tapes. Kinda insane. Made me feel myself ridiculous haha. I had saved the settings (text + photos) on my phone; i still have them on my phone, wanna see a screenshot? With some practice, it didn't take long to make the device "knife1-ready" but after a year and especially if you do more than 1 single knife per day, it got old/tedious/tiresome/annoying/ymmv/tiring. Point being, i need to budget my time and energy i am no micheal phelps maybe you are. Efficiency is the keyword. For me.
As the above video time series demonstrates, if you follow the natural flow of using the device, you typically woht do more than 1 (or max. 2) knives on a given day, and ahh that's fine (for you as a beginner).
I sold mine after a year with a small profit hehe. Hapstone is the best value you can get, no regrets, worth every cent. And amzn customers seem to keep using (and not selling) it happily for years. Still, i wouldn't be surprised if you, like me, stopped using it after a good while because you learned enough (from/thru it) and moved on. Stuff like Hapstone is certainly no end game (i guess for some cartoony voice/Canadain youtubers it is no offense). To me, sharpening ended up in a long path, an itinerary (even tho i didn't want it to become one). After years of Off and On (sharpening motivation comes in monthly phases, doesnt it - during summer we go to the swimming pool and parties, during winter we spend time on playing with our knives, etc) I finally reached my end of the path, see the RRS thread, happy camper there. Sharpening work has imho to be effortless, fast, light, efficient, and self-attracting, not mentally repelling, a burden. imho. doht you agree?
ymmv
i actually look forward to my next RRS sessions (when i know that a knife needs resharpening or touchup). how many folks (percentage) can honestly say that they are looking forward to their next sweat session with Apex Pro, Lansky, Ruixin Pro, Hapstone Pro, etc? I asked the above Russian youtuber if he enjoys and still uses his Hapstone Pro regularly and he
When i use my RRS , i cant help but laugh at myself\my times\my past recalling how much time energy efforts i spent on getting a silly cheap (dull or sharp) knife supersharp with my guided systems. i doht laugh out loud and I doht mock myself but i just find it funny.
(i like clicking on this emoji)Please keep us posted which one you got (KME or Hapstone)! I kept the Ruixin Pro instead, modding it was kinda my middleschool project lol.
Last edited: