Re: Sharpening with an electric knife sharpener
From what I hear and read those electric sharpeners work really well.
Personally am never in a hurry to get a knife sharp, am with Ds J on that, it is something I sit and do some evenings and I find it very relaxing.
There is a Warthog sharpener in the kitchen for the general kitchen knives, great to quickly touch up an edge before using a knife.
The rest of my knives, the quality kitchen knives, utility knives and hunting knives I sharpen either using a Lansky I have had for many years, or wet stones which belonged to my father (a skill he taught me over many years as a young boy), finishing with a strop I made.
When I go hunting and I feel I will need to sharpen knives somewhere during the hunt, I take extra knives although I do have some ceramic thingimbob to touch up in the field if need be as well as a small wet stone.
On my 'from dad to dad' gift list is a KME sharpening system, soon.
Re: Sharpening with an electric knife sharpener
I have the Work Sharp (belt sharpener) and the Spyderco Sharpmaker.
Work Sharp for kitchen and knives I don’t care too much for.
Sharpmaker for my EDC’s and more expensive knives.
It is in my inexperienced view more difficult to make a mistake with the Sharpmaker.
I’ve just acquired a strop which I intend testing soon.
The first thing that I do whenever picking up any knife, whether mine or someone else’s, is to test the edge. If it is yours and has a dull edge I will tell you ...
PS- my kids know when I’m sharpening knives it is time to leave dad alone because he has some stress issues to get rid of.
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Re: Sharpening with an electric knife sharpener
Sharpmaker for the win. But then I only sharpen to a functional edge, not to see my own reflection in...
Re: Sharpening with an electric knife sharpener
I own a Lansky, Spyderco Sharpmaker and a Work Sharp electric sharpener. I can only echo what has already been said. I use the Lansky to reprofile (change sharpening angle) of a edge, should it be necessary. The Spyderco Sharp maker is used for maintaining my knives and 'touching them up', a task at which it excells in my opinion. The Work Sharp electric sharpener is used on kitchen knives, bait knives and other less expensive knives. I've used a Lansky for the last 16 years, having been taught how to use it by my father originally, but since I bought a Spydeco Sharp Maker, the Lansky has been very seldomly used. If your blade is already on the correct edge, touching it up on the Sharpmaker is a quick and easy excercise.