Knife sharpeners?

[5150]

I bought a wooden cutting board once. What a useless piece of shit. Could not cut anything with it. Blunt as fuck...... Took it back to where I got it from only to discover to my amazement that you cut things on it, not with it. False advertising me thought. Duuh

[The Singing Chef]

What you need is this

Reminds me of South Park, the voice just made the whole video for me haha.

In regards to sharpening the knives, I would never touch one of those hand-held things, from what I have seen they are shit. A stone and steel should be more than sufficient to keep them sharp as long as you are doing it correctly. Especially with a Diamond steel .

Spend your money on the bike instead!

[FJRider]

Now I love my wife but I'm the first to admit she has some annoying habits. Not keeping the kitchen knives sharp as she uses them is one of them. Considering shes an ex chef this is a terrible crime. I hate using a dull knife - it really does my head in..

If I can be arsed I dress them regularly with a good stone and we have a little pull through sharpener BUT it seems to just gaul the edge these days. Problem being Vickster never uses that either,,, grrr....

So I was thinking electric sharpener. Any one have a recommendation on an affordable electric jobbie?

Given the emotional instability of women ... giving them sharp knives might be considered dangerous

If YOU require sharp knives ... get some for your own use. And keep them locked away ... safely (for YOUR safety )

[The Singing Chef]

Given the emotional instability of womem ... giving them sharp knives might be considered dangerous

If YOU require sharp knives ... get some for your own use. And keep them locked away ... safely (for YOUR safety )

Ha reminds me of someone. Definitely +10 this idea!

[speights_bud]

I Use Victorinox Knives at work, the small 3inch blade one i carry in my pocket cuts Aluminum shim and a whole bunch of other stuff on a regular basis (I'm a toolmaker) so it does go blunt over a week or so, i use polishing stones to bring it back to effing sharp again, only takes a minute, start with 400, then 600 and sometimes finish with a 1200stone.

As for the Ceramic style knives, we use the same ceramic stuff of scrapers in the plastics dept the same except with a square edge instead of sharp. they are awesome at holding their edge but drop it or knock it against something hard like a ceramic or steel bench top and they break pretty easily

[Flip]

You can't sharpen a crap knife. I love my svord brand steel knives. Yep they can rust. I can cut up 2 deer without them needing a sharpen. They hold an edge at least 400% better than any stainless steel knife I have ever owned.
My pocket knife is an expensive Buck folder but its only a quarter the knife the svord is.

Buy a fine oil stone and a good butchers steel.

[Usarka]

I use Furi Diamond Fingers and am happy enough with result.

I'm by no stretch a pro, but i cut ripe tomatoes with ease.

http://www.amazon.com/Furi-FUR626-Oz.../dp/B000F8SIOW

[CookMySock]

So I was thinking electric sharpener.

No, don't. Google some docs on proper levelling, bevelling, and micro-bevelling your own knives, and buy yourself a nice stone and do it properly.