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Tri-angle sharpmaker

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2001 12:00 am
by bznthor
Can be use Tri-angle sharpmaker for big blades?Knives with 8 inches or more?Thanks.

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2001 3:12 pm
by Clay Kesting
IIRC Sal once said that the Sharpmaker worked well with blades up to about 10" long. After that the stones cut along the blade rather than up and down and performance suffers. If I get a chance, I'll try to find the original post on BladeForums.com and post a link.

Clay

Don't worry that the world might end tomorrow, in Australia it's tomorrow already.

Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2001 12:46 am
by Clay Kesting
I spent about an hour over at BF and couldn't find the original post. The seach engine doesn't seem to go back past the change in forum software. The more I think about it the more I think that 10" might be on the conservative side of Sal's recommendation, one of the problem's of relying on an ageing memory <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>. It may have been more like 12" or 14" but we'll have to hope Sal sees this thread and helps me out. Anybody else remember seeing the thread in question?

Clay

Don't worry that the world might end tomorrow, in Australia it's tomorrow already.