Knife Sharpener

[sagan47]

Can anyone recommend a good knife sharpener for custom knives as well as production knifes and cutlery?:confused: :confused: :confused:

[John R. Fraps]

Spyderco Triangle Sharpmaker is a very good unit for production and using custom/handmade knives.
As to "collecting only grade" custom / handmade knives, honest recommendation is to not sharpen them beyond original sharpening by the maker.
Personally I use my 2x72 grinder running real slow to sharpen anything I make or use, then strop on leather with green chrome rouge, or wool wheel with green chrome rouge, or lightly on a tightly sewn buffing wheel with green chrome rouge.

Would recommend not using a sharpener where you draw the blade through
a V shaped pair of stones/rods on valueable knives....one maker of that type of sharpener even used to , and may still, print it right on their box or included documentations that the sharpener may scratch the blade (where you don't want it)....only use it for inexpensive, I mean inexpensive, knives if at all...haven't used it in several years...it does sharpen, and it has scratched the blade where you don't want it.