Gatco Sharpeners: Any Complaints?

[BerettaNut92]

Thinking about picking one up...I like the idea of the Spyderco kits but it's too big.

 

[dfariswheel]

I like the Gatco.
I also had a Lansky, but the Gatco has much better stones. The Lansky's wore very fast, and quickly developed dished out stones. The Gatco seems to last a long time, and still have a flat surface.

 

[hksw]

I agree, I like my GATCO diamond set better tha nmy Lansky diamond set. Much wider working area and I haven't accidentally overstroked the stone and cut my fingers with the GATCOs (yet). The corners of the Lanksy, due to the narrowness of the stones (IMO) get scraped to the plastic more easily.

 

[Quartus]

<sigh> Okay.... I'll do it for you and get it out of the way.




There.

Alright, here is where I tell you what can be done with a Lansky (or Gatco, i presume) system , and everyone reading rolls their eyes and says, "Yeah, right."


I had a Swiss Army knife, the small blade of which would shave peelings off the side of a human hair.

I once sharpened the filleting knives belonging to a boss of mine, for his annual fishing trip with a surgeon fishing buddy. They came back with stitches in the bosses hand, and the surgeon's comment was that those knives were sharper than the scalpels he used in surgery.

I took a cooking class with a couple of friends back in my bachelor days. "Cooking for You or Two" I sharpened the teacher's Chicago knives for her, and returned them before class one night. She used one to show us a technique for dicing onions. Looked down to see her long red fake fingernails laying on the cutting board. She hadn't felt them get cut off.


No brag, just fact.


I don't know of a better system for knife sharpening, and you won't go wrong with it. A feel for steel, some patience, and a Lansky, and you will amaze yourself.

Don't forget to finish up with a good stropping on clean leather.


I agree about the Lansky stones wearing too fast. I hope to get a Gatco diamond set one day....

 

[Sir Galahad]

Who cares about the Gatco sharpener (and here's your awaited )! I want to know more about the "Cooking For You or Two" class! One would think that cooking for two, that is, if it were a meal as a prelude to, say, candlelight and soft music afterards, one would not want to use diced onions (or diced fingernails) in the meal. Of course, oh wait, I better not say that.

 

[C.R.Sam]

...A feel for steel,...

Key.

Sam

 

[Quartus]

Yup. Them whut's got it can get a good edge even with just an old fashioned bench stone. But it's a lot easier with a Lansky or Gatco type device.