Home Forums Gear Knives and Blades knife sharpening ~ recommendations needed

I started using a Lanksy in 1983 because I could not keep the angle equal on both sides of the blade, switched over to the diamond hones once they hit the market. I have learned to work with the limitations but I know there are better products.

I tried stropping on a piece of cardboard last year but had limited success, so I bought a 5.00 bag of leather from HobbyLobby, glued pieces to three different Oak 1x4x12's and picked up rouge from Lowes. Stropping seems to help quite a bit.

I would like to build a sharpener similar to this and buy wider and longer stones.