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<blockquote data-quote="Lefty7mmstw" data-source="post: 937161" data-attributes="member: 48043"><p>I've got to say I've never had a need for an electric sharpener.</p><p> </p><p>I sharpen a lot of knives, both at work and at home; I've got a 16 knife set at work and 50+ knives at my house. I use a multi step process to re sharpen and it depends on how bad the knife edge has been damaged as to where I start. Let's say I have a heavily used blade with a bit of rounding; I'll take an aluminum oxide, coarse or medium diamond, or soft Arkansas after the knife until it has a good rough edge. Then I'll take a ceramic sticks or diamond steel after it to hone the edge then finally take a kitchen steel after the knife to take it to a razor edge. </p><p> </p><p>If the edge isn't that bad I'll often go straight to the diamond steel and the kitchen steel. I hesitate to touch a knife with any powered or carbide sharpener as they will both eventually damage your blade; either through heat transmitted to the blade edge or excess steel removal. </p><p> </p><p>As to field sharpening, I usually have a fine diamond at the truck in my range box for edge touch ups and a diamond pad on my Leatherman in case I blunt the edge cleaning a critter. Diamond sticks the size of a pen are also sold that work well in the field and are rather easy on your blade.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lefty7mmstw, post: 937161, member: 48043"] I've got to say I've never had a need for an electric sharpener. I sharpen a lot of knives, both at work and at home; I've got a 16 knife set at work and 50+ knives at my house. I use a multi step process to re sharpen and it depends on how bad the knife edge has been damaged as to where I start. Let's say I have a heavily used blade with a bit of rounding; I'll take an aluminum oxide, coarse or medium diamond, or soft Arkansas after the knife until it has a good rough edge. Then I'll take a ceramic sticks or diamond steel after it to hone the edge then finally take a kitchen steel after the knife to take it to a razor edge. If the edge isn't that bad I'll often go straight to the diamond steel and the kitchen steel. I hesitate to touch a knife with any powered or carbide sharpener as they will both eventually damage your blade; either through heat transmitted to the blade edge or excess steel removal. As to field sharpening, I usually have a fine diamond at the truck in my range box for edge touch ups and a diamond pad on my Leatherman in case I blunt the edge cleaning a critter. Diamond sticks the size of a pen are also sold that work well in the field and are rather easy on your blade. [/QUOTE]
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