walmart lansky clone

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40swg23

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Hi, I have a few questions about sharpening. I bought what appears to be a lansky basic clone from walmart. Made by smith's I believe. I have a spyderco native and benchmade mini-grip that need sharpened. The sharpener offers two angles, 20 and 25. What would be a good sharpening angle for these two knives? I want them as sharp as I can get them. Also if anyone knows any techniques that would be greatly appreciated. Like how to reprofile for the desired angle if need be, and how to make them "scary sharp".

thanks
 
I think your knives are high enough quality to go with the 20 degree setting without any problems as far as edge holding goes. I own both the regular Smiths set and the diamond set as well and I don't recommend using their "sawing" back and forth method. I get better results by starting at the base of the blade and doing one stroke along the entire length of the blade. The edge comes out much more polished looking and even. The process can be long and tedious for reprofiling but it depends on how much metal you take off. How I determine the edge angle setting is clamp the blade in the clamp and insert the rod/stone on the underside of the blade and see how much of a gap there is between the stone and the edge of the blade. Staying closer to the original edge will be faster and are both fairly sharp angles-especially if your mini-grip is the chisel ground tanto blade. Those can be made SCARY sharp with the 20 degree setting but it might take up to 3 hours to do like one of mine did. Bearing down hard on the stone might seem like it will speed things up but it does more harm than good. A medium pressure works best for me, and keep the stones oiled and wiped down when they clog up-which happens fairly quickly. Godd luck-it took me some time to get the technique down and consistent but it can do a good job sharpening.

Oh BTW does your username stand for .40 S&W Glock 23? If so I had one and it is great. Adding a steel recoil guide spring and "decal grips" from Glockmeister.com helped a lot-you have good taste in knives and guns
 
Hey thanks for the advice. I will give that a try. I was kind of wondering about the sawing too, didn't seem like a good idea. A friend of mine reprofiled my crkt m18 with the sawing technique and it is sharp, but doesnt look very good. Yeah that username stands for my g23, love that gun. I have a hogue grip on it, and did the steel rod too.
 
Yeah the long single stroke across the blade really help keep the edge evened out, it took me awhile to figure it out. I had my G23 taken away unfairly, but when my tax check comes in I think I'll get another. I still have the other clip from the first so I will have three-can't have too many bullets...
 
I was able to put a hair popping edge on my black bladed Spyderco Native with a Smiths diamond sharpener that I bought recently. I was surprised that I was able to put a pretty good edge on the serrated portion with a Smiths pen sharpener, but even more surprised that I could put a razor edge on the PE portion. I can't sharpen to save my life, but I was surprised. Only about five strokes on each side, on the coarse sharpener, and three sides on the fine sharpener.
 
My diamond Smiths kit is about 10 times better than the regular kit for only $10 more. I used too much pressure on mine and wore the diamond off in the center of the stoness. Also I noticed they dont dish out like the regular stones do becaue I think the "stones" are actually made out of some kind of metal. I put rubber friction tape around the clamping area to keep the blade from moving around and scratching any coating it might have. Its not a bad setup but I wish you had more angles to choose from
 
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