Sharpmaker ok for Shun Classic (Santoku) kitchen knives?

[warpdrive]

I want to sharpen my kitchen knives but I was wondering if I should use my Sharpmaker on my Shun (Kershaw) Santoku knife. Should I use the 15 degree setting for all my sharpening? 20 degree?

 

[Keith_H]

I see no reason why not. and yes it is 16 degrees according to the video with alton brown.

 

[Jeff Clark]

I would use the 15-degree setting or lower.

 

[FoxholeAtheist]

I use 15 degrees with mine and it seems to work fine.

 

[planza]

Ditto on what FoxholeAthiest said.

I use my Sharpmaker to sharpen my Shuns at 30 degrees. I only go to the coarse side of the brown for my Chef's knife so that it keeps a little rougher edge for slicing. It still chops really well too. I go all the way down to the flat edge of the white stones for my paring knife.