Thread: Knife sharpeners you’d recommend

My brother and I are thinking knife sharpening for Father’s Day this year
What ones are worth the time and effort in this area?


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scary sharp - made in Hawera are very good but expensive for a fathers day present - but will last for years and you will have a lot of mates wanting to use it - why not a decent oil stone -if one of you were good with wood make a nice box for it - I use an oil stone every now and then on my knives and just touch up with a diamond lap - or just a diamond lap a nice size one are around $50-60 -mind you if you were filthy rich a proper Swedish electric sharpening system with wet wheel and leather polishing wheel - yeah hah real nice - warning there is a lot of gimicky ones out there especially those cheap elertric ones with a V slot

depends if the old fella is any good with an oil stone or not....
one of the diamond/oval steels is a good idea,you can spend serious money on a scarey sharp of warthog system...or smaller amount on lanski
probably the simplist to use is the ceramic rods in wooden holder from lanski
Ive got both of the lanski systems but since putting oil stone in wooden holder in the vice..they havent been used.

the V you drag through are simply diabolical when get worn.....I sharpen knives for a few mates and when they have used those plurry things....it really shows.

Scary sharp is bloody good.

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Originally Posted by Micky Duck

the V you drag through are simply diabolical when get worn.....I sharpen knives for a few mates and when they have used those plurry things....it really shows.

My old man had one of those, I called it the knife fucker lol. Turned a Muela bowie knife into a stiletto.

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

scary sharp - made in Hawera are very good but expensive for a fathers day present - but will last for years and you will have a lot of mates wanting to use it - why not a decent oil stone -if one of you were good with wood make a nice box for it - I use an oil stone every now and then on my knives and just touch up with a diamond lap - or just a diamond lap a nice size one are around $50-60 -mind you if you were filthy rich a proper Swedish electric sharpening system with wet wheel and leather polishing wheel - yeah hah real nice - warning there is a lot of gimicky ones out there especially those cheap elertric ones with a V slot

I have the Sweedish Tormek you mentioned. Yes was expensive, but its the only one that caters for everything & my grand kids will still be using it long after I'm gone.
Never a dull blade in my house! Tomato sharp every time easy.

I have the Lanski. Seems to be ok. Although I have noticed one or two for sale on here lately which maybe dosn't support my opinion lol.

Originally Posted by Bill999

My brother and I are thinking knife sharpening for Father’s Day this year
What ones are worth the time and effort in this area?

My suggestion is to decide on your budget first.

Originally Posted by Allizdog

I have the Lanski. Seems to be ok. Although I have noticed one or two for sale on here lately which maybe dosn't support my opinion lol.

putting them in a vice makes HUGE difference as you can put some weight onto stones to cut better/faster...I used mine to get blades back to proper angles

I'm pretty happy with mine as it is MD. But I might try that method too.

My experience with the following.
Lansky is ok on smaller knives, not so good on larger knives
Scary sharp is good on larger knives, straighter the better. Gets fiddly with smaller blades.
Tormek is hard on your wallet. Does most other edged tools in addition to knives, although requires purchasing extra jigs. A real legacy tool though.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

the V you drag through are simply diabolical when get worn.....I sharpen knives for a few mates and when they have used those plurry things....it really shows.

Ha ha I use this and love it, have used it for around 5 years on 2 different knives and it still works fine however it's not to say your experience is wrong just I am getting good results with mine and I hope it continues, very quick and easy to use.

when its worn..throw it away and buy new one.....whiltshire made a straight edged black handled,kitchen knife in orange and white holder with the V bit built in....it eventually created a 45 degree type edge hopeless for anything but lettuce .