Quote Originally Posted by Alucard73 View Post
Sharpening aids come and go if they were as good as they say everyone would use them ask anyone who uses knives to make a living and most will tell you a good stone is the best way to sharpen guess you could say the same with the old barbers shaving people day after day as for a twenty degree angle on each bevel you end up with a fourty degree edge which may be good for an axe but not much else and for the cost you can buy some great full sized stones that will last a lifetime
I'm not sure where you get me placing a 40 degree bevel but oh well. this will never do an axe as it will not fit. As for sharpening a knife on stones, very few people are good at it and fewer still can make a consistent bevel of any kind. Even when stones were the only and common way to sharpen, the average person sucked at it. That's why the neighborhoods had sharpener carts going around doing your knives. I have never found anyone that could free hand hone or use any of the multiple systems such as the Lansky, that could come close to the sharpness level and consistent bevel reproduction that I am able with this.
Is it what I use on razors? No. Is it expensive? Yes. Would I buy it again? HELL YES! I have sharpened everything from a small MT blade to a 18" machete. Razor sharp everytime. Once you use it or see how well and fast it is it sells itself. All my friends that hunt/guide/do cook offs now own one or have me sharpen their blade. It works. Don't hate on it or claim you can do a better job free hand. In 5-10 minutes it's done. Dead no bevel to 0.0125 micon.