touch up tools

[rexromic]

Hi everyone I recently requried small sebenza s35vn,spyderco para 2 m390,muller msp s90v ,benchmade 710 m390 and spyderco gayle bradley in m4.Lokking to find the best tool to maintain the edge.Heard about sharpmaker,lansky,dmt and sharpening stones.Just wondering what would be the best way for me to maintain the edge-touch ups for my knives.I have the stroping belt also.My friend is using simple sharpening rod for his bm 755 to keep the edge so i really need a advice which one is most efective for my needs.Thanks in advance for any inputs.

 

[Komitadjie]

If ALL you need to do is touchup, either a good strop or a Sharpmaker would be a good choice.

 

[rexromic]

Do I need diamond rods for sharpmaker or just medium fine and extra fine rods.

 

[Komitadjie]

For touch-ups, the stock ones (Medium and Fine) plus the additional Ultra Fine rods are a good bet.

The diamond rods (actually tubes that slide over any pair of rods) are the Sharpmaker's attempt at being capable of reprofiling. They sort of work, but if you need to do reprofiling, your money is better spent on a coarse DMT plate. The Sharpmaker diamonds are quite slow, quite expensive, and fairly short-lived.

 

[rexromic]

Thanks I got my answer Il go with sharpmaker

 

[Komitadjie]

I think you'll be quite pleased. It's not good at ALL for working with a blade that is damaged or needs re-profiling, but for just keeping a good blade sharp and ready for use it's hard to beat. Get yourself some Barkeeper's Friend from your local grocery store as well, when the rods start to load up with metal, just make a paste of BKF and a bit of water, then use a rag to scrub the rod. Takes that metal RIGHT off, looks like new again.

 

[rexromic]

Thanks a lot Komitadjie.

 

[Benuser]

Would you ever want to reprofile: strop on sandpaper in the P120-600 range, fast and cheap.

 

[rexromic]

Thanks everyone.