short life lansky?

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I have been using lansky sharpeners for close to 2 decades. About 6 months ago I finally bought a diamond stone (corse) to go with my new Benchmade with D2. I have sharpened this knife with this stone maybe 5 time and the stone seems almost smooth (not "crisp"). Could it be the black coating on the blade? The stone does not seem to be turning black. The smith brand honing oil seems a little watery, but the bottle says its good for diomand stones. I clean and lubricate the stone every few strokes.

Does anyone have a clue as to what has happened, and if I can get the crispness back in this stone. It was kind of pricey and my wife is not a knife person, if you know what I mean.
 
I bought a diamond Lansky sharpening kit, a few years back. The diamonds on mine did not smooth out. They just fell right off of the hone. :jerkit:

That was my last Lansky purchase.
 
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My gerber diamond sharpener smoothed out pretty quickly. It's not as agressive as before, still good for touch ups though.
 
I have the lansky diamond corse stone and it went smooth real quick on hard steels.I went back to using the Extra Corse black stone instead of the diamond. I used my lansky for about 5 years till recently without any problems other than the one diamond hone I bought for it.
 
This is a known problem with diamond abrasives in such systems. It is also worse with the poly vs mono diamonds. If you contact Lansky they may replace it.

-Cliff
 
Give it a good scrub with an abrasive cleaner (Vim, Comet etc) - will bring back some bite.

Works with my DMT hones, but it is a small improvement, nothing amazing.

MAT
 
Someone (wish I could give credit) told me not to press too hard with the diamond stones. Wears off too quickly this way. Hope this helped.
 
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