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Who has over 50 knives but no knife sharpener..??
- Thread starter Wavester
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As soon as I bought my first real knife, I dove straight into the sharpening world. Picked up a nice Arkansas stone, combination medium / extra-fine so I could practice. Now I keep a set of EZE-Lap Model L's and a ceramic stick to keep my knives nice and sharp 
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Everyone who carries a knife should know how to sharpen it. Do some reading over on the Maintenance forum. I've been fussing with knives and sharpening for a long time and still learned a bunch over there.
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If you don't want to scuff up your knives sharpening, you can always practice on a beater. My Victorinox Spartan is so beat up that it's missing the red scales and the blades are all scratched up. However, it's probably one of the sharpest knives I've got at the moment.
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500 plus knives,and rocks whetstones,edgepro,wickedsharp.
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I've had knives all my life and finally ordered a sharpmaker last week. Way over due
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I'm sort of in the same boat. I have a collection big enough and I use them enough that I should have something to sharpen them with...but I'm afraid to try. I say sort of because technically I do have a sharpening stone. When my grandfather passed I got a real nice stone he had...even came in a sweet collectors box. He was a magician with the stone...like a frickin samurai blacksmith...he even had the blades on his mower like razors. I spilled blood on more than one of his razor edges over the years.
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I only had a simple low quality sharpener when I only owned and carried one folder. After I starting buying more knives I kept holding out only because the cheapest sharpening system that I was interested in was going to cost a big chunk of the next knife I wanted. 
I held out until about my 8 or 9th purchase and then ordered an inexpensive knife I wanted as well as a decent sharpening system that was much better than what I had. The only thing I really did not want to do was use my old low quality sharpener on my new knives. There has been no hesitation to use the new sharpener on any of my knives when they need it.
I held out until about my 8 or 9th purchase and then ordered an inexpensive knife I wanted as well as a decent sharpening system that was much better than what I had. The only thing I really did not want to do was use my old low quality sharpener on my new knives. There has been no hesitation to use the new sharpener on any of my knives when they need it.
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"Paper wheels" are actual wheels that are used on a grinder. I'll try to find you a link. :thumbup:
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Here you are........... http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=656333
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here is a thread i started on the wheels http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=578787
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Get a Sharpmaker from Spyderco. It is about as idiot proof as they come. It is a very nice sharpener.
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+1 on the Spyderco Sharpmaker. Great sharpener and it comes with a video that demonstrates how to use it.
You should instead, view your knives that have lost their edge as "messed up", and take some of the good advice you've been given in this thread to get yourself a sharpening system. Have some fun with it. You'll feel proud when you've learned to restore a sharp edge to a dull knife.
Rob