Recommendation? S110v sharpening stone recommend?

[Pasteur291]

Hello guys,

I just bought a Manix 2 S110v but I got trouble to sharp this steel. I'm looking the Lansky Deluxe Knife Sharpening System but I'm not sure it could sharp s110v steel or other powder steel like CPM20V?
So have you guys got any trouble to sharp powder steel with general stone or have to use diamond stone?
Thank you for your attention.

 

[Insipid Moniker]

Ceramics have done fine for me for sharpening. Standard Sharpmaker stones have worked on M390, K390, S110 and S90V. I definitely want diamonds for reprofiling any of those, though.

 

[Knife Outlet]

The Lansky will work just fine. Use the coarse stone to grind the edge to one of the set angles. Then go through the various grits until it gleams.

 

[abbazaba]

Ceramics have done fine for me for sharpening. Standard Sharpmaker stones have worked on M390, K390, S110 and S90V. I definitely want diamonds for reprofiling any of those, though.

+1 Sharpmaker. I have a Lansky but much prefer the Sharpmaker. The Diamond rods were a good investment as well.

 

[Jason B.]

For steels with this much Vanadium you really want to be using diamond plates and stropping compounds. My personal favorite is the DMT Coarse followed by a good firm strop with 1 micron diamond compound.

 

[James w]

http://www.bladeforums.com/index.php?forums/maintenance-tinkering-embellishment.794/

Try asking here

 

[Yo Mama]

+1 Sharpmaker. I have a Lansky but much prefer the Sharpmaker. The Diamond rods were a good investment as well.

Same here, love my Sharpmaker, sold off the Lansky because I couldn't ever get it to work. I don't ever really use the medium rods, just the fine.

 

[91bravo]

DMT

 

[Pasteur291]

Ceramics have done fine for me for sharpening. Standard Sharpmaker stones have worked on M390, K390, S110 and S90V. I definitely want diamonds for reprofiling any of those, though.

+1 Sharpmaker. I have a Lansky but much prefer the Sharpmaker. The Diamond rods were a good investment as well.

Thank you for the opinions. Is the spyderco sharpmaker easy to use? I'm worry I can't use it correctly because I can't fix the angle like lansky system. Thx.

 

[Insipid Moniker]

Thank you for the opinions. Is the spyderco sharpmaker easy to use? I'm worry I can't use it correctly because I can't fix the angle like lansky system. Thx.

It's very simple to use, but it only has two set angles, 40° and 30° inclusive. One of the benefits, as I see it, is that once you're comfortable with the system and reasonably confident it's easy to move to freehand sharpening with knives that have been reprofiled or came with a different edge angle from the factory.

That said, even with the diamond stones the Sharpmaker wouldn't be my first choice to do a major reprofile.