What sharpening method(s) do you use

Depending on the blade and use, I use either WEPS, Tormek or belt sander. Just started playing with paper wheels but I suck at it so far.
 
I use quite a few different methods, depending on the circumstances. Chisels and plane irons get sharpened on DMT bench stones, usually with the help of a home-made angle block. Knives get sharpened on the EP or belt, more commonly the belt (that's what I use when I'm sharpening at the local sporting goods place). I have a WEPS on order as well, should ship yet this week... fingers crossed, and I use the Sharpmaker for the occasional touch-up or for serrations.

If I could only pick one method, it would probably be the belt. It's tremendously versatile, and puts a great edge on very quickly.
 
I do all free-hand, and have so many options that my bin is mounded with 'em.

Diamond stones
SiC stones
AlumOx stones (my current favorite)
A three-line Swaty barber's hone
Arkansas stones from Wachita to surgical black and translucent
Sandpaper
Strops from 120 grit - through 1/10 micron diamond lapping compound
Beltsander
Sanding belts glued to brass plates for doing machetes
Spyderco Ceramic Fine benchstone
Crockstick
three different steels
waterstones
 
Same system for all my knifes. 220,1000, and 6000 Japanese water stones. I also flatten the 6000 with a Naniwa stone. Then I move to a green compound on leather strop and call it good.
 
I am by no means a spectacular sharpener. I'm still learning a lot and I generally only go for a working edge. If it will slice paper and shave hair I'm pretty happy. No fancy mirror polishes here.
For folding knives and small/medium fixed blades I will almost always use my sharpmaker. I have the medium, fine and extra fine rods. A light touch is important with these. If the edge is really really dull I will use a coarse DMT diamond stone to bring it back before using the sharpmaker. I also have a set of strops that I use when I want a very keen refined edge. They are just thick leather glued to a piece of hard wood. I use one with green compound, one with black one with white and one bare.
For machetes and axes I will generally start with a Nicholson double cut bastard file to get a good edge then if I'm not in a hurry I will use my coarse diamond stone. My machetes are pretty soft steel so I don't see any reason to refine the edge very much since I end up sharpening them every day when they are being used, the same goes for my axes, tomahawks.
For convex edges I use 400, 600 and 2000 grit sand paper placed on top of a strop. And then I may use the strops as well.

Sharpening is not a difficult thing to do well, but it is a difficult thing to excel at, in my experience anyway.
 
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