Spyderco Sharpmaker Techniques
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On the triangle rode there are three sides. duh.
But you use the point on the triangle and the flat side.
What is the side with the line down the middle?
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The secret of the Sharpmaker is to maintain the blade perpendicular to the Sharpmaker's base at all times, period.
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My brother bought one of these for sharpening his (entirly to vast) array of production knives, he has kershaw spyderco wolfrt( never heard of it untill he pulled a slide scallop switch blade made by them out of his pocket. (meaning one of the handle scallops rotates down as a switch) alot of torronto knife co. Knives and this thing zips them sharp. I cut an rf-id tag off of a flashlight i just got and it dulled my kershaw, took ten seconds and its razor again. Though im not toughing it with my
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@Tradja I can't remember what the question was. lmao ;: )>
When you are remaking the tip, is the blade tilted at at angle or perpendicular?
MrBobsagget420 8 months ago
@MrBobsagget420 The spine is perpendicular. Tilting the blade off-axis when re-shaping the tip would create a weird asymmetrical swedge.
Tradja 8 months ago
how do you help that with the edges?
PCRedman 9 months ago
@PCRedman: when using the edges of the triangular rods, slow down as you get to the tip of the blade and don't roll the tip off the edge. I mostly just use the flats anyway.
Tradja 9 months ago
Can my Zero tolerance 0200 work on this sharpener its got a fatty re-curve blade on it
Darkstar2520 1 year ago
@Darkstar2520 Yes. In fact, the Sharpmaker is one of the best things to sharpen a deep recurve on, using the corners of the rods. I've sharpened my old ZT301 on it.
Tradja 1 year ago