scandi grinds and the sharpmaker

Sure. Just use the feature where you put the two stones together to make a convential hone.
 
brownshoe, I guess I'm not following you...so you can't use the V sticks in the conventional manner? Are you talking about laying the rods down flat?
 
The scandi grind is made at a different angle than the Spyderco stones.
 
If it's a zero grind Scandi just lay the bevel flat against the rod and go for it. One of the benefits of that zero grind is that it's very easy to sharpen because it eliminates any guess work about the angle of the secondary bevel. There is none, so lay on the primary bevel and go to town!
 
Alternatively, you could use the Sharpmaker in the recommended fashion. This will put a double bevel on the edge, which is, after all, the part you want sharp. Who cares about the rest? As usual, if the edge, not the scandi bit, is not at the recommended (by Spyderco) angle, then reprofiling will take time, but it is perfectly possible. I have done this with my Mora Companions, and they came up a treat, fairly quickly. Let us know how you go, and what the specific knives were.
 
Insipid Moniker said:
If it's a zero grind Scandi just lay the bevel flat against the rod and go for it. One of the benefits of that zero grind is that it's very easy to sharpen because it eliminates any guess work about the angle of the secondary bevel. There is none, so lay on the primary bevel and go to town!
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Exactly this.

Scandi knives have like a 1cm wide bevel, which makes it super easy to sharpen on anything flat.
 
I have two Mora companions I am wanting to touch up. Can you recommend some stones I may need to buy for this?
 
mannysdad said:
brownshoe, I guess I'm not following you...so you can't use the V sticks in the conventional manner? Are you talking about laying the rods down flat?
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Take the rods out of the base and turn the base over. Lay the rods side by side in the two grooves and use them like a conventional stone.
 
Using a Sharpmaker for maintaining the whole flat face of a Mora is probably a bad idea. Numbersman's notion of using the SM in the regular fashion would get a sharp edge much faster, with a minimal microbevel. If you're super picky about maintaining a "true" scandi grind all the way to zero, full size bench stones would be faster.
 
For my Mora's, because they didn't really need reprofiling, I pretty much just used the fine stones. If they were pretty blunt, or were further away from the Sharpmaker angles, you would go to the medium stones. If you were sharpening away with the fine stones, and not getting much sharper, then check your technique and consider going to the medium stones. But mine sharpened up quite easily.
 
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