The Sharpmaker works well for maintaining and touching up an edge as long as the knife bevels match the Spyderco pre-set angles. Seriously dull knives, dinged up blades or reprofiling an edge are a lot of work on the Sharpmaker as it comes straight from Spyderco.

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