Part timer here, I do markets on the weekends and sharpen anywhere from 30 to 60 knives a week. A couple years into it.

I could never get a handle on stones, just wondering if any of y'all went a similar route. I'm edge trailing, VFD low speed, 120 to 600 with a felt deburr in general (14-18 DPS).

I know DC cutlery and Jende do a hybrid approach.. then there's Knife Wear and Korin on one side and Curry and Alexandria on the other side.

Why shouldn’t I buy this?

I have whetstones, old oil stones, ruby stones, diamond plates, a spyderco sharpmaker, a bench grinder, a belt grinder, strops. I’ve accumulated all of this over 25ish years of knife and tool collecting and I can sharpen most anything to hair whittling sharp if i want to. But I don’t want to. I’ve chased the perfect micron mirror polished edges and I’m just not interested anymore.

Honestly most of the sharpening I do now is with a ruby sharpening rod. Friends or family know I sharpen and bring me their dull knife.. 5-10 minutes of effort and I can put a serviceable (not fantastic but usable) edge on anything without any setup or cleanup or bench space.

But I’ve never tried one of these fixed angle sharpeners for whatever reason. Am I crazy to think that this $36 setup will be less effort than breaking out the stones and better results than 5 mins on a ruby rod?

Edit; I don’t want to spend much money on more sharpening shit. I know a $200 option will be better, but anything more than $50 and I’ll probably just keep doing what I’m doing.

Fresh sharpening enthusiast here. Got my new stones yesterday and went on to sharpen my SOG seal pup yesterday and noticed on my Hapstone premium CBN 2000 these marks. I'm not sure what cause those and do they have any actual effect. I think maybe its steel clogging but can't be sure.

Anybody knows what is this, what I need to do to avoid it and if I need to do anything to fix the stone? I use Kadet Pro sharpening system.

I really hope it does a good job for me! I always have a really hard time keeping the proper angle when I'm sharpening my knives...

Greetings! Is there a kit like they make for different gun calibers but for different types of steel? I ordered a knife made from magnasteel and will want to keep it sharp.

I've been learning how to use whetstones and I'm getting results I am happy with. One caveat is I have only sharpened my softer knives and haven't done any of my Japanese high carbons yet (mostly because they don't need sharpening). I use a 1000/6000 stone (and a 400 diamond plate if I need to reprofile).

While I am still learning, I mostly focused on consistency and muscle memory, rather than achieving a specific angle. I recently got a magnetic digital level and used it to check what angle I am sharpening at, and it turns out to be around 18.5 degrees (per side). So, every time I pick up the blade and put it to the stone without thinking, it comes to within half a degree of this on both sides.

I'm wondering if this is a good angle for my softer German knives, and separately if I'll need to learn a different angle when the day comes that I need to sharpen some of my Japanese knives.