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May 29, 2011, 04:22 PM
So I was browsing guns at Turner's Outdoorsman yesterday and ended up picking up a cheap knife sharpener on my way out.
Those of you who shop/browse there a lot might even know or have the one I"m talking about. It's by Lansky, and it's a small, red, two-sided sharpener that has both a medium-sharpener and a fine-sharpener. It has this oval rubber grip area, and then above that it just has a long-x shaped setup where one side of the x is the medium sharpener and the other side is the fine sharpener.
The problem is, it doesn't have any markings on it to indicate which one is the medium sharpener, and which one is the fine sharpener, nor does it say anywhere in the box it came in or anything.
All I know is just that one side has two little bone-white colored cylindrical sharpener beams, which have the look and texture of chalk more or less
and then the other side has two rectangular edged dark-gray beams that feel a little less rough to the tough when I scratched at them with my fingernails.
So, at first I assumed that the dark gray part was the fine-sharpener and the white part was the medium sharpener, since the blade seems to run very smoothly across the dark gray part, but feels like more resistance when it passes against the white part, and since the white part feels rougher to the touch, but then when I looked on amazon for similar sharpeners, it seems like they showed ones that had similar looking dark gray sharpener beams that were supposed to be "medium" carbide sharpeners, and that the white ceramic type ones seemed to be listed as the "fine" sharpeners, so now I'm starting to think i had it backwards.
Which one is which?
Also, I assume I am supposed to use the medium sharpener first, and then the fine sharpener, right?
Or, should I not even use the medium sharpener at all, unless my knife is just OBSCENELY absurdly ridiculously dull and only use the fine sharpener?
Oh, and also, I noticed that just from a few passes, the white ceramic sharpener side already is blackened with metal dust. Does this make it less effective, like, will the microscopic metal particles plug up the microscopic holes in the ceramic and make it less abrassive, or, will it take an extremely huge number of passes before I ever have to worry about that happening? And also, if I do need to worry about that, then, would it be a good idea to put a drop of oil on it to loosed the metal dust up and be able to wipe the metal dust off to make it like new again, or would that be bad, cuz, I just vaguely remember someone doing something like this in some unrelated video I saw on youtube with some ceramic file he had been using for polishing work on a triggerjob video, and wasn't sure if the same concept applies here or not.
thanks!
Those of you who shop/browse there a lot might even know or have the one I"m talking about. It's by Lansky, and it's a small, red, two-sided sharpener that has both a medium-sharpener and a fine-sharpener. It has this oval rubber grip area, and then above that it just has a long-x shaped setup where one side of the x is the medium sharpener and the other side is the fine sharpener.
The problem is, it doesn't have any markings on it to indicate which one is the medium sharpener, and which one is the fine sharpener, nor does it say anywhere in the box it came in or anything.
All I know is just that one side has two little bone-white colored cylindrical sharpener beams, which have the look and texture of chalk more or less
and then the other side has two rectangular edged dark-gray beams that feel a little less rough to the tough when I scratched at them with my fingernails.
So, at first I assumed that the dark gray part was the fine-sharpener and the white part was the medium sharpener, since the blade seems to run very smoothly across the dark gray part, but feels like more resistance when it passes against the white part, and since the white part feels rougher to the touch, but then when I looked on amazon for similar sharpeners, it seems like they showed ones that had similar looking dark gray sharpener beams that were supposed to be "medium" carbide sharpeners, and that the white ceramic type ones seemed to be listed as the "fine" sharpeners, so now I'm starting to think i had it backwards.
Which one is which?
Also, I assume I am supposed to use the medium sharpener first, and then the fine sharpener, right?
Or, should I not even use the medium sharpener at all, unless my knife is just OBSCENELY absurdly ridiculously dull and only use the fine sharpener?
Oh, and also, I noticed that just from a few passes, the white ceramic sharpener side already is blackened with metal dust. Does this make it less effective, like, will the microscopic metal particles plug up the microscopic holes in the ceramic and make it less abrassive, or, will it take an extremely huge number of passes before I ever have to worry about that happening? And also, if I do need to worry about that, then, would it be a good idea to put a drop of oil on it to loosed the metal dust up and be able to wipe the metal dust off to make it like new again, or would that be bad, cuz, I just vaguely remember someone doing something like this in some unrelated video I saw on youtube with some ceramic file he had been using for polishing work on a triggerjob video, and wasn't sure if the same concept applies here or not.
thanks!
