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Honky Lips |
Does anyone have a recommendation for a good enough sharpener? Sort of thing you'd use for your high use low cost knives. I'm not looking for razor sharp or worried too much about material retention just quick clean up. ___________________________ The point is, who will stop me? https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...990026293#5990026293 | ||
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Fighting the good fight |
Do you need a true sharpener, or do they just need to be honed? Regular use of a simple ceramic honing rod will keep your knives usable for a very long time. (Like the steel rod that usually comes with kitchen knife sets, just made out of ceramic.) Or to make things even easier, you can get one of the kits with a simple wooden base and dual smaller ceramic rods, to hold the angle for you. Something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Lansky-...rpener/dp/B000B8FW0E | |||
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I use an AccuSharp on my inexpensive knives. Doesn't look like much, but gets the job done with a few strokes. (I also use a honing steel.) I have sharpening stones, but this is it for quick and dirty. It's actually recommended for Samurai swords!  | |||
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Or a good stropping? Leather on a mouse pad with polishing compound. ____________________________________________________ The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart. | |||
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I have an accusharp and they'll do a quick job of sharpening your knife (although I do use one at times), but they will tear the metal up a bit. A better choice (or get both) is the SHARPAL 121N Dual-Grit Diamond Sharpening Stone Knife Sharpener Coarse 325 / Extra Fine 1200 Grit. You can get a 90% decent sharp edge by hand (if you keep it steady) in a few strokes. Amazon at under $20. But it's chinese. DMT makes a US version as well. https://www.amazon.com/SHARPAL...38819689&sr=8-2&th=1 | |||
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| Honky Lips |
Thanks for these, I think that sharpall would be worth the effort to get right. ___________________________ The point is, who will stop me? https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...990026293#5990026293 | |||
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| Music's over turn out the lights  |
I just got a spyderco sharp maker and it works great. David W. Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. -Sophocles | |||
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| Honky Lips |
That's my primary sharpener, and it works great but frankly I just need a good enough edge on my EDC is mostly for tape, zip ties, cords boring stuff I don't really want a razor blade. ___________________________ The point is, who will stop me? https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...990026293#5990026293 | |||
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This Work Sharp Precision Adjust is my good enough sharpener, but I am OK with good enough for all my knives. Kitchen, folding whatever I just need my knives to work well for my ordinary uses, but I'm not gonna shave with them and I'm not a knife hobbyist. For $60 this is easy and does a better than good enough job for me. https://www.worksharptools.com...5OwyrNg5YYlcZyqzfXpGThis message has been edited. Last edited by: kho, | |||
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I've used ceramic sticks for well over 30 years. I used them on my boat where I had an assortment of knives, worked great, used after every trip. I now have a 30 year old set at home and they work fine, keeping up our kitchen knives. My personal knives rarely need anything but a quick pass on the sticks. I'm not abusive and keep them sharp. "Nature scares me" a quote by my friend Bob after a rough day at sea. | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
This would be my choice. Easy. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
https://www.lansky.com/blademedic.html This'll do what you want it to. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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| Cogito Ergo Sum |
Another vote for the Spyderco Sharp Maker. | |||
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I agree with Brailldiver on the stropping because most of the time mine only need a bit of touching up and this seems to be less harmful with my pathetic sharpening skills. Too many SIGs .. ... Nah not really | |||
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I've had an Edge Pro Apex for maybe 20 yrs. as long as you can leave it sort of set up, it does the finest job in a very short time. | |||
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| A day late, and a dollar short  |
Electric Chef's Choice 120 works well for my kitchen knives, steel sharpening rod for quick touch ups. ____________________________ NRA Life Member, MGO Annual Member | |||
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I have a Tormex T8 and boxes of attachments - it does the job. Oh, and costs a small fortune - grin! bumper's formula for man's tool and gun buying (no value can be 0 or negative: Want X Need = Buy! Lots of want and little need = Buy! Lots of need by little want = Still buy! | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
For something good enough: Work Sharp Benchtop Whetstone Knife Sharpener "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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