Sharpening

[dragonass]

Good Evening all, can some of you good people guide me to a nice sharpener that will put back a nice edge that my knives came with. I was looking at the lansky system the one that comes with the 5 stones is it worth the money or should I go with the spyderco sharpener.

 

[nozh2002]

Good Evening all, can some of you good people guide me to a nice sharpener that will put back a nice edge that my knives came with. I was looking at the lansky system the one that comes with the 5 stones is it worth the money or should I go with the spyderco sharpener.

IMHO Sharpmaker is ideal for start it is cleaner and easyer and make excellent edge even for beginner with small effort.

Thanks, Vassili

 

[leon.pugh]

Don't by stones, use diamonds, ceramics and a strop. I think for the average person that does not want a large investment or learning curve that you can' go wrong with a blue DMT diamond, a set of 20 degree crock sticks, and a peice of stiff leather such as a old belt, glue the belt to peice of wood, it must be ridgid. The strop does not have to be loaded with abrassive but it works faster if it is. Almost any buffing compound will work. A word of caution I find most people strop to much which will form a very sharp tiny wire edge butt dulls to quickly unless your blade is a very fine grained and very hard steel.

 

[bh49]

I will second Sharpmaker. It is very good tool, easy to use. Watch DVD couple times, use magic marker trick to determine angle of the microedge when you sharpen your knife first time and learn how to remove a burr. "Jeff's Clark method" works very good for me.
Good luck

 

[Cougar Allen]

Welcome to Bladeforums!

 

[Kevin the grey]

Hey ya welcome . I,m a fan of ceramic stones for maintaining an edge . Not sure on price but spyderco has some great stones .

For bringing back an abused edge it is better to listen to experts here . They have been mistreating knives more than me . L:O:L