Stumbled on Lansky catalogue!

[JediKnight86]

I found a small fold up Lansky sharpener catalogue in a drawer. I know nothing about these things but they look interesting enough. I don't need the Pro one because I'm totally happy with my Japanese water stones. Though, I would love to try one just to see what it's like.

I'm interested in getting something portable for field use. But there's far too many to choose from so I need advice. What style, diamond or not, what coarseness etc? And do the ones designed for serrated knives work better than a Spyderco Sharpmaker?

 

[nc527]

I would simply take a fine stone with me in the field. At home i simply touch up my rat-6 everynight after ive been bushcrafting.

 

[Lazydog1]

The Lansky system works well, if a little fiddly. I generally use the 'rods' by hand to touch up the edges. When needing to re-profile or really cleanup a blunt blade then the system works really well. I would not recommend it for field use, though, unless you're going on safari for weeks. Just take along one of the small handheld ceramic 'rods'. Lansky make a couple of models.

 

[JediKnight86]

The Lansky system works well, if a little fiddly. I generally use the 'rods' by hand to touch up the edges. When needing to re-profile or really cleanup a blunt blade then the system works really well. I would not recommend it for field use, though, unless you're going on safari for weeks. Just take along one of the small handheld ceramic 'rods'. Lansky make a couple of models.

That's what I meant, I'm looking for one of the portable models. There's quite a few that are flat or rods that fold up, just don't know which to get. I also like the keychain ones. There's one designated for Spyderco serrations specifically.