Sharpener Recommendation

[fireant911]

My wife ordered one of these recently during a sales promotion:
https://www.tumblerware.com/products/tumbler-rolling-knife-sharpener?srsltid=AfmBOop31De9lrISSIctK15AJ9gspGl5 pdE2BwJNTnUh_P9GLr5Pjjcu

She loves the simplicity and the results are amazing!

[masraum]

Originally Posted by fireant911

My wife ordered one of these recently during a sales promotion:
https://www.tumblerware.com/products/tumbler-rolling-knife-sharpener?srsltid=AfmBOop31De9lrISSIctK15AJ9gspGl5 pdE2BwJNTnUh_P9GLr5Pjjcu

She loves the simplicity and the results are amazing!

This guy knows how to sharpen a knife He gets knives SHARP. Here's his 15min video or the rolling sharpeners.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by masraum

Be careful of the powered versions. It's really easy to end up grinding one spot of the blade down to nothing. I was a member of a knife sharpening group on FB, and they were always showing photos like the one below where hamfisted folks had used the powered pull-through sharpeners and ended up with wonky edges.


Lansky is greatish, but not exactly fast.

Basically a fancy version of a Lansky. I think those are often called "fixed angle sharpeners". They work well.

If it is already sharp, the strop or steel. If it is mostly sharp, then the honing stone and strop.

If it isn't sharp then it is time to stream a few shows and sharpen.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by masraum

I have a cheap on of those guides that I got from Amazon. It's OK. I'm sure there are better versions out there. But I just do it free hand. My bevel isn't perfectly flat. It's slightly rounded, but I can shave arm hairs with them when I finish. I usually do course (325), fine (1000-1200), and then strop. The stropping really makes a difference.

Free hand mine also. Usually wet sand with the fine.

[vash]

I cant stand taking the time to pull out gear to sharpen knives. for me, when I discover a knife is dull, it is usually me standing at the kitchen counter staring at a pile of veg that needs to be chopped. so out comes a DMT hand thing.

if I have time, maybe. I usually sharpen my Japanese fish knife afterwards, wipe it lovingly with a silk diaper, coat it with a molecules thickness of oil and put it away in a fur line, hermetically sealed box.

[vash]

not that I dont have other knives I could use in a pinch..but once I chose one, I am usually committed.