I've got a Lansky Tungsten Carbide sharpener sitting here with me. It seems to me like it would be a good way to very quickly reprofile an old knife so I can use the sharpmaker on it effectively. However, I cannot seem to find any information that tells me what angle the sharpener sharpens at. Does anyone happen to know? Here is a link to the product:
http://www.lansky.com/products/tungsten.html
Lansky Tungsten Carbide Sharpener Angle
TC puzzled
I also have a couple of TC sharpening units. It seems to me like they are set up to literally "whittle" steel off the blade. I do personally believe that a diamond sharpener would be better to "re-profile". I have the following that I use to reprofile:
Norton Diamond Benchstone 325 grit
3M Diamond Benchstone 225 grit
Cerahone Tri-Angle "hand held" sharpening unit
With one of the 3 I can usually do all of the "re-profiling I need to do before I implement the 204 Sharpmaker. That is the ONLY gripe I have about the 204. I can't imagine for the life of me why they don't come up with a stone which would do rapid "stock removal" like a coarse diamond would do. The Diamond stones that you can buy for the kit are all right for taking out a nick or 2, but they are just a little too fine to do serious re-profiling. :confused:
Norton Diamond Benchstone 325 grit
3M Diamond Benchstone 225 grit
Cerahone Tri-Angle "hand held" sharpening unit
With one of the 3 I can usually do all of the "re-profiling I need to do before I implement the 204 Sharpmaker. That is the ONLY gripe I have about the 204. I can't imagine for the life of me why they don't come up with a stone which would do rapid "stock removal" like a coarse diamond would do. The Diamond stones that you can buy for the kit are all right for taking out a nick or 2, but they are just a little too fine to do serious re-profiling. :confused:
Don't tell me you haven't got an angler lying around somewhere ?
One of these: http://discountoffice.nl/pimages/KAN4120200.jpg
or
http://discountoffice.nl/icimages/550524.jpg
One of these: http://discountoffice.nl/pimages/KAN4120200.jpg
or
http://discountoffice.nl/icimages/550524.jpg