Edge Pro Apex 4 Knife Sharpening System

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The Knife sharpening jig consists of a new back plate with a raised wear plate attached, a universal arm, a choice between a small or large knife holder and a set of instructions. Ideally the angle would not be so shallow near the tip, but a lot of that was because of the past damage. How in the world do two things get an edge sharp, but one of those edges doesn’t last as long as the other edge. Diamond particles are precisely graded to give a long-life solution and are excellent for sharpening the most difficult of materials.

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First, the edge of the blade faces you while you’re sharpening, which allows you to see the edge forming. See, there are three basic types of sharpeners – guided angle sharpeners (like this guide will cover), freehand sharpeners (like Japanese water stones) and pull through sharpeners (like your uncle uses on his kitchen knives but all they do is remove tons of metal and create a toothy burr. There’s a large group out there which simply says the best way to maintain and actually sharp knife, is by stropping it with a leather strop and compound.

The guided rod is a two piece setup, where the vertical rod slots into the base and the horizontal rod holds the stone. One commonality all sharpeners have – they start at a coarse (low grit) abrasive to remove metal the fastest and set the profile of the edge, and gradually progress to higher grit (fine) abrasives to refine that edge as accurately as possible, including leveling out the burr that develops when you sharpen one side at a time. The bevel on the blade had become very convex, the tip had been poorly reprofiled by me, and generally it was a really inconsistent angle across the blade. It is a guided rod sharpener but it works different in principle than the Lansky or KME-style sharpeners. Even if you're already a sharpening professional, our staff is available to answer your tough questions.

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We’ve actually reviewed this kit from Lansky here if you’d like a more detailed breakdown, but the Lansky is an affordable guided rod kit that will get you decent results if you have good technique, but is not without its drawbacks.

size will sharpen to two microns (the same sharpness as a disposable razor blade) and provide a factory finish on all steels. Often you can use this to touch up a blade to field sharp, which is why I just carry a ceramic hone now with me in hiking gear. Edge Pro knife sharpening system offers two sharpener variants, The Edge Pro Apex and the Pro models. Hugely versatile, this industrial strength machine is built to last and delivers astounding ‘factory finish’ results without fail. Let’s start with my Chris Reeves Small Sebenza 21 — it was dull as hell when I started this process and add to that I chipped the very tip off a long time ago the blade was a trainwreck.

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We spend a lot of time talking about knives here, and not a lot of time talking about knife maintenance. In use the Edge Pro produced an excellent edge that equaled the original sharpness on my Global knives and the best part is that it is 100% repeatable.

With the platform set and the angle selected, you place the knife on the sharpener with the edge facing you and run the stone across the edge, sliding the blade along the shelf to reach the entire edge. Teamed up with Edge Pro sharpening stones you can achieve incredible results on your Edge Pro apex sharpening kit and Edge Pro Professional model. Watching this video, I really got thinking about whether I was getting a good edge on my knives or not — I suspected not. I don’t use those stones enough (nor have the time to use them enough) and thus I can’t get a good consistent edge.

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The Edge Pro Apex stones in our wet stone sharpening kits have been custom formulated to free you from messy, gummed-up oil stones. In the video a bunch of sharpeners are tested to see how sharp they are right after sharpening and how well each retains the edge after a very consistent amount of wear is put on each blade. So I tossed away the Spyderco — and I know I have been recommending it for a while so apologies, I am in the same boat. After a full introduction on the ProEdge with all its optional jigs and accessories the DVD is split into chapters for easy reference. It’s cheap – a name brand kit that’s about what a knockoff Edge Pro goes for, and Lansky invented the basic concept of a guided rod jig sharpener.The colored rings on the vertical rod indicate 3 degree increments starting from 15 degrees, allowing for easy angle setting. I reached out to Wicked Edge for feedback on their system and what puts it a cut above other setups, and got a very detailed response back from Clay.