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What is a good machine/tool/process to buy in the market today?
Wide range of knives... some quality, some less so.
Pocket, Leatheramn, fixed and kitchen type blades.
Thanks
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1x30 grinder. 800 grit belt, and a leather strop belt. Cheap and sharpen anything you want to with it.
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Turn loose some of that cash and just get the Edgepro Apex and be done with it.
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I have had excellent results with a edge pro. Easy to use, I sharpened using stones for years, has a old hunting knife that I lost the edge on and couldn't get it right with a stone. Fixed it with a edge pro.
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Any of you fellas use KME? That’s where I’m leaning.
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If you start with a quality knife I have found using a set of ceramic crock sticks and a pass on a strop after using the knife maintains the edge and it rarely needs anything else.
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1x30 grinder. 800 grit belt, and a leather strop belt. Cheap and sharpen anything you want to with it. I have seen these in action, but had no idea you could get all the way to 800, 1000 grit. You can also buy a leather strop belt. Did not realize. I have done OK with a 3x21 belt sander (Ryobi has a flat topside... flipped over) and the 240 grit... finish with a stone or 600/800 grit sandpaper rounds stuck to heavy plate glass etc. Built a 25 degree jig for block planes and chisels. Thanks for that info. If you start with a quality knife I have found using a set of ceramic crock sticks and a pass on a strop after using the knife maintains the edge and it rarely needs anything else. I am terrible on maintenance of a keen edge now-a-days... but I did just what you said years ago when I only had one or two knives... It is sound advice. Never tried a Edge Pro or Chi-Com knock off... But I can see the value. Thanks to all for the opinions... I really do appreciate your thoughts and time.
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Any of you fellas use KME? That’s where I’m leaning. I got my dad a KME last year for father's day, and I've got a TSProf K03 (similar to the Edgepro, uses the same stones). He loves the KME (he used a lansky for decades before, and its the most comparable system out there I can think of) and can put a great edge on a knife, but I personally prefer the additional flexibility, better stone selection, and ability to set and measure precise angles and do convexed edges with my TSProf. If you're more interested in a benchtop setup with a heavier/sturdier base than the KME or Edgepro offers, starting at about the same price as edgepro and going up from there, I'd also recommend checking out Hapstone! You can get a magnetic table for the knives similar to the edgepro, as well as a rotating clamp like the TSProf and swap them out depending on what you're doing! They have a pretty nice black friday sale going on now, but I dont know how long it will last. They're also made in Ukraine as opposed to Russia, so you're helping out some people that need it as well as avoiding paying a huge premium of mainly punitive tariffs that have been imposed on the TSProf products through no direct fault of their own.
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