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Hello everyone,
I recently joined this forum and have been lurking and reading quite a bit of information on sharpeners. I don't have anything close to what the vast majority of you have as far as knives, two hunting knives; a Gerber folding gator and a Browning fixed blade, a Browning filet knife and just the run of the mill kitchen knives. Although I must admit that after reading your posts, my interest in the finer version of knives has been perked. I currently have a bench grinder with an expanding drum with 400 grit and a paper polishing wheel on the other end. It does OK but I'd like to take the next step and get a good sharpener. And yes, I have done a search of the sharpeners. From reading all your posts, I know that I'm going to get either a Sharpmaker (along with a set of ultra fine stones) or the Edge Pro Apex (with the polishing tapes). It appears that most of the members seem to use the Edge Pro for more initial rework and resetting the bevel angle and then use the Sharpmaker for routine touch up resharpening. My concern or dilemma is that I don't want to spend all the extra money on the Edge Pro just to use it once or occasionally on a knife and then have it sit there and end up getting the Sharpmaker to resharpen/touch up with.
I appologize for the long winded explanation but I did want to let everyone know I did the search thing and just need a little guidance from the much more informed forum members based upon my situation.
Thanks in advance,
Art
I recently joined this forum and have been lurking and reading quite a bit of information on sharpeners. I don't have anything close to what the vast majority of you have as far as knives, two hunting knives; a Gerber folding gator and a Browning fixed blade, a Browning filet knife and just the run of the mill kitchen knives. Although I must admit that after reading your posts, my interest in the finer version of knives has been perked. I currently have a bench grinder with an expanding drum with 400 grit and a paper polishing wheel on the other end. It does OK but I'd like to take the next step and get a good sharpener. And yes, I have done a search of the sharpeners. From reading all your posts, I know that I'm going to get either a Sharpmaker (along with a set of ultra fine stones) or the Edge Pro Apex (with the polishing tapes). It appears that most of the members seem to use the Edge Pro for more initial rework and resetting the bevel angle and then use the Sharpmaker for routine touch up resharpening. My concern or dilemma is that I don't want to spend all the extra money on the Edge Pro just to use it once or occasionally on a knife and then have it sit there and end up getting the Sharpmaker to resharpen/touch up with.
I appologize for the long winded explanation but I did want to let everyone know I did the search thing and just need a little guidance from the much more informed forum members based upon my situation.
Thanks in advance,
Art