Thread: Knife Questions

Originally Posted by whanahuia

As an aside on sharpeners. I just picked up a warthog sharpener. So far im impressed and what I like about it is because it does both sides at once and is guided, My partner can quite happily sharpen kitchen knives etc, without waiting for me to do it.

They are quite a good 80% solution for knife sharpening. I have several daily use knives that come razor sharp with 2 or three passes through the warthog, and some that just will not sharpen well at all. Must be the knife's blade taper dimensions.

Originally Posted by XR500

They are quite a good 80% solution for knife sharpening. I have several daily use knives that come razor sharp with 2 or three passes through the warthog, and some that just will not sharpen well at all. Must be the knife's blade taper dimensions.

The scary sharp and similar are good for that - set what angle you need and go forth. Once sharpened, the Cambrian type steel is the go to - one or two passes each side and shaving. The lansky setup is good at angles, I just found them painfully slow with the smaller size of stone especially on a bigger knife.

I think the Warthog setup is ok as well, but what I have found is certain types of stainless blades just will not come up on those type sharpeners. My experience is you really need a guided stone for those, or some form of guided mechanical sharpener. I've got a stainless filleting knife here that was quite expensive, imported German I think and it is a good example. It won't play with hand stoning, diamond hones get laughed at and even the flash diamond stones don't achieve a lot. I don't know what it is, I've only had success with it with the guided stone sharpeners. Steels even the Cambrian type aren't much use either.