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Lansky Deluxe Knife Sharpening System

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Totally different from the other sharpeners on this list, the Tormek T-4 is more a piece of industrial equipment and less a hobbyist sharpener. The T-4 uses an 8” Aluminum Oxide sharpening stone that rotates on a 120w/230V electric motor. The bottom of the stone rests in a water trough that keeps the edge of the stone lubricated while it’s turning, which both cleans the stone and cools the item being sharpened (avoiding overheating it and ruining the tempering.) The standard stone with the Tormek is approximately 220 grit; using the stone grading tool (including) smooths it out to around 1000 grit for fine finishing. Once you’ve got a clean edge grind, use the built in leather strop wheel to straighten out the burr, and you’ve got a scary sharp knife. The Sharpmaker is what made Spydercoa household name in the cutlery industry. Not their knives, but this simple portable sharpener. Simple is the key word: it’s portable, easy to understand, and easy to master.

This is the first electric sharpener on our list, and one of only two that I think are worth looking at for real knife enthusiasts. Many electric knife sharpeners are just sort of glorified pull-through sharpeners – they create a lopsided burr that will tear up a steak for a few cuts – but the Work Sharp is more akin to a powered Sharpmaker. It uses a 120V/1.5 Amp electric motor to drive a flexible belt in a triangle shape, and a guide fits over the belt. The angle of the guide is adjustable between 15 and 30 degrees per side (so 30-60 inclusive) and you place the blade in the guide, sharpening one side then flipping to the other, leaving a convex edge bevel (as opposed to most of the rod sharpeners which do flat edge bevels) which Work Sharp and Ken Onion claim is more durable than a flat edge. Guided angle sharpeners in a lot of cases are glorified jigs, a device that you mount the knife in and can then apply an accurate angle on a stone to the edge bevel of the blade to create a consistent edge. Obviously there are many ways to skin a cat, and knife sharpeners vary wildly in construction, design and price. 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. Want to go nuts with your sharpener? How about an electric powered wet-stone with a built in leather strop wheel to boot? That wraps up our list of the best sharpeners on the market for knife enthusiasts. Did I miss your favorite sharpener? Get in touch.

Lansky was born in 1979 from the frustrations of Arthur Lansky Levine the founder of the company, when, as a medical student he was dissatisfied with the sharpness of his surgical equipment. This led him to create the “Controlled Angle” sharpening system - a sharpener anyone could use to attain a razor sharp edge.

The Ken Onion Edition is a variant of the standard Work Sharp electric power knife sharpener, developed with input by the man himself – surely you’re familiar – to work specifically on knives.

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