Lansky Deluxe Sharpening System

One of the best sharpner tools in the market, fair price ... The reason why I rate it only 3 stars is that I received my order with 2 prices ( medium and fine) weren't well fixed so I had to use a super glue to fix them well, I used them to sharpen my buck 110 and another Damascus blade knife and all of them works perfect

Ce set et vraiment super pour afuter les cuteaux. Les deux angles d'alluminium pourais etre un peux plus costeau, mais ca functione bien. Par contre pour faire un bon finish a la lame, il faut completer ce set avec la pierre Saphire (bleu) apres c'est impec!! Mais surtoux PAS utiliser l'huile pour la pierre Saphire!!!!

If you are looking for a sharpening system and reading these reviews, you have probably been fooling around with stones and gizmos, like me, for years; I own a Chef's Choice model 110, Smith's Tri-Stone, crock sticks, etc. and I have never been able to consistently achieve a sharp knife edge without lots of trial and error. The "secret", of course, is maintaining a consistent, repeatable blade-to-stone angle while sharpening; one slip and all of the previous honing can be ruined. I was looking at the motorized belt sharpeners and surmised that instead of screwing up a knife's edge in hours, with a motorized system I could do it in mere seconds ! I was surprised that I had never come across this Lansky system before now, but once I saw it, it immediately clicked - the simplicity of a system where the knife is held in a clamp and the stones are at the end of a rod which pass through slots thereby allowing the user to repeat the same angle of hone through all of the different grits was what I was looking for. The system itself is not "over engineered", i.e., not fancy, but adequate. The stones are only 1/2 " wide and 4 " long, at first blush this seemed kind of undersized, but once I used them it made sense. Because the stone moves over the blade ( not the usual knife moving over the stone), the narrow stones more easily conform to curved blades. View the Lansky video to learn the correct technique; YouTube is filled with videos on how to do it wrong: sawing action on blade's edge, using oil on the diamond stone. I wouldn't expect to have perfect results on your first attempt, like anything else worth learning there is a learning curve. After a few knives you will start to get the feel of how much pressure to use on the blade ( as the grit becomes finer, you will use less pressure: on the finest stone you will use a very light touch to just dress the edge ). Based on other's reviews I opted to buy a stand ( clamp on model ). I tried to use the knife clamp without the stand and it was awkward; nothing to hold onto. While the stand doesn't hold the clamp rock solid, it provides sturdy enough purchase of the knife and keeps it off the table when you flip it over. I had to put thread locker on the clamp's rod's end stud to keep it in place and then a lock washer to hold it firm to the base to keep it from loosening up - if you buy one you will see what I'm talking about. One last thing, I thought I separately ordered the ultra fine honing stone - yellow holder - but inadvertently ordered the leather stropping hone instead. What a dummy. But, after using the finest diamond hone, I daubed a little red rouge from the Dremel polishing kit, onto to leather strop, and the strop did an excellent job of polishing the edge to a mirror-like finish along with a touch more "keenest" to the blade. All and all I am quite satisfied with the whole Lansky system, and for the first time ever I have an entire knife block full knives that are as sharp as they were new and the means to keep them this way. 11/29/14: Like I always say:" Anything worth doing is worth overdoing". I've since purchased the yellow and Sapphire stones to see if I could squeeze out that last little bit of edge. In my opinion there is a small, incremental improvement so I've added these extra steps when I want an especially sharp blade. Also, I purchased a set of extra wires to accommodate these additional stones. And not leaving well enough alone, I switched out the thumbscrew clamps for Phillips head screws. I discovered that one-inch self tapping sheetmetal screws have the same thread pattern as the thumbscrews; I cut the screws to about 3/8" (shaft length ), dressed up the threads, and permanently attached wires to each stone. The main reason I did this was to regain almost 1/2" length of usable sharpening stone surface and to have the stones all set up and ready to go without any assembly. Now, I need to gin up some kind of storage/carrying case for the these things...It never ends.

とにかく簡単に切れるようになります。 刃渡り10cm程度のナイフしか削ってませんが、よく切れるようになりました。 削った面を拡大して見たことがないので、以下はあくまで印象です。 目の細かい砥石で研磨したような滑らかさは無いような気がしますが、 実用上まったく問題のない切れ味になりました。

I read through some of the unfortunate circumstances where others had faulty stones in the plastic moulds - definitely seek a warranty claim via amazon. I can only say positive things, as I've used this system today, and I've spent about 20 minutes sharpening my santoku kitchen knife - which is now exceptionally sharp - tested it on paper and a tomato. Prior to sharpening it wouldn't cut through the paper and was blunt on the tomato. I'm very happy and it was easy to learn how to use by reading the instructions and watching a quick video online.

Excelente calidad: Ya llevo más de dos años con el y compre dos versiones. La Version que más me gusta es la de las barras con aleaciónes de metales (SOLO 4 AFILADORES, PLATA, MORADO, NARANJA Y DORADA) te duraran toda la vida. Con respecto a la versión en donde los afiladores son de piedra, encuentro mayor desgaste y aun es mas lento el proceso. Sin duda en ambos casos si deseas adquirir un LANSKY es importante tener la prensa o la base para sujetarlo, o hacerte de algo que te ayude, es costosa pero si no tienes en donde sujetar todo sera imposible que lo hagas bien y se convierte en un tema desesperante. Adquirí la piedra de cerámica por separado, la verdad no es nada del otro mundo y el acabado espejo en realidad no es indispensable, la he dejado de usar. El mejor producto es el de solo cuatro piedras con aleacion de metal. ( OJO ESTE SISTEMA ES PARA UN AFILADO ARTESANAL Y DE MUY BUENA CALIDAD PERO LLEVARAS ENTRE 15 y 25 MINUTOS PARA UN AFILADO PERFECTO) Si eres desesperado y deseas afilar con tres pasadas, Lansky no es lo que buscas, pero si tienes cuchillería fina y disfrutas de tus cuchillos y de un afilado perfecto, adquiere. Puntos a mejorar o deficiencias: Las pestañas del sujetador del cuchillo o navaja son muy pequeñas, si presionas mucho las piedras contra la hoja del cuchillo puede ser que se salga la hoja y tengas que estarla acomodando. El tornillo requiere de más fuerza para sujetar cuchillos más grandes y pesados para que no se salga (como un cuchillo de supervivencia). Así que comencé a usar unas pisas para apretarlo mejor y con el tiempo la perilla plástica del tornillo del sujetador se ha ido desgastando. Este sistema es eficiente y perfecto para navajas, cuchillos chicos y medianos. No lo recomiendo para cuchillos de campo de tamaño mayor que la hoja supere los 15 centímetros.