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Pros & Cons

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Pros

Each time one of the kids in our scout troop achieves eagle scout i give him a lansky. Easy to use and setup. Great little starter kit.

But shoving the rod in further made it better. Unless you have a robot like hand and 20 years experience, this is the best sharpening system available, period.



Cons

It's as if some of these parts werent put through any kind of qc, and if they were, they shouldn't have passed.

The clamping device for the sharpening system though, rubbish. When you attempt to use the two lowest sharpening settings (17 and 20deg), the stones physically drag on the jaw of the clamp. If you don't keep your grips completely dry from oil (potenti...  Read More

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Quality


It works great and ive gotten all my knifes very sharp


Fixed an edge and sharpened the knife nicely


Works almost as good as the older set i have just not the same build quality


You can operate the lansky by holding it in your weak hand and moving the stones with your strong hand but i find it much easie...  Read More

Competitiveness


You can find imported copies cheaper but i prefer to support the us company that designed it and still builds it

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    sharp, great, new, set and made.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 1,900 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 10 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Read the instructions carefully and check some of the videos out there and you’ll get extremely sharp edges with your first knife


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    If you have knives made of the newer high speed steels you should probably get the basic diamond set


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Honing or stropping will give you an even sharper edge but it’s not really necessary for most uses


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    If you don’t have a vise i recommend the lansky stand or clamp


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The lansky is the original rodtype knife sharpener the one everyone else copies


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    You can find imported copies cheaper but i prefer to support the us company that designed it and still builds it


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Ordered two more stones to complete the set


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    As i had scrap wood and a carriage bolt i made my own holderstand

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