Precision Adjust Knife Sharpener Review

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Good Review,

I absolutley love mine, I will most likely gett the upgrade kit and a new set of the 320/600/ceramic that it comes with as I am using mine a lot and the worn set of stones may be a usful mid grit set between new and the super high grit upgrade set.

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JonTerry wrote: Sun Nov 27, 2022 2:53 pm Good Review,

I absolutley love mine, I will most likely gett the upgrade kit and a new set of the 320/600/ceramic that it comes with as I am using mine a lot and the worn set of stones may be a usful mid grit set between new and the super high grit upgrade set.

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Glad you like it, do you have any trouble with small pocket knives, i have seen reviews where this can be as issue. And how much do they cost in Sterling.? With the exchange rate, particularly at the moment, any thing from overseas is out of the question over here. Thanks, have a good week. :)
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cudgee wrote: Sun Nov 27, 2022 8:35 pm
JonTerry wrote: Sun Nov 27, 2022 2:53 pm Good Review,

I absolutley love mine, I will most likely gett the upgrade kit and a new set of the 320/600/ceramic that it comes with as I am using mine a lot and the worn set of stones may be a usful mid grit set between new and the super high grit upgrade set.

JT
Glad you like it, do you have any trouble with small pocket knives, i have seen reviews where this can be as issue. And how much do they cost in Sterling.? With the exchange rate, particularly at the moment, any thing from overseas is out of the question over here. Thanks, have a good week. :)
I have had to re-adjust a few times with small stockmans, and a Laguiole due to the thin blades, but as long as you don't want a shallow angle for the edge it seems to just about cope with the smaller blades, I have more issues with the lower grit settings when taking off lots of metal to get a new angle, if the blade is bigger then I find that I have to support the tip with my spare hand to stop the knife being pulled down a little an not maintaining the angle. It's not really a problem just little hacks you learn along the way with it.

I think everybody will have thier own little ways to use this but tbh it's hard to mess anything up....

Overall I love it and have not use a stone since buying.

I think it cost me £65.00 on Amazon, and when the Mrs is not looking I might buy some after market gadgets for it, there seems to be lots comng out.
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cudgee wrote: Sun Nov 27, 2022 8:35 pm Glad you like it, do you have any trouble with small pocket knives, i have seen reviews where this can be as issue.
You’ll not have that problem using another similarly priced Work Sharp product, the Work Sharp Guided Sharpening System. It has angle guides, but no clamps. It’s more limited in choice of angles (the standard version comes with 17 and 20 degree guides) than their Precision Adjust System, and it can also be used freehand if you prefer. The great feature it has is a tilt base feature which takes the difficulty out of sharpening curved blades. But best of all IMHO is there are no cumbersome, limiting clamps! Sharpening blades of all sizes and shapes is easy.

The angle guides provided with the Guided Sharpening System are just that - guides. They place your blade at the chosen angle on the provided diamond stones of varying grits (plus ceramic rods and leather for finishing if you prefer). If you’re unable to hold the blade at that angle for the 4-5 inches required to draw it across the stone, then by all means get a system with clamps. Otherwise why bother?

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I was a lucky guy this Christmas,

The Mrs got me the elite upgrade kit, I have not used it yet but think the extra fine grits and the leather strop will get some good results.

She also bought me the electric Worksharp kit (Mark 2)

Thats going to take a little getting used to, I'll let you know how it goes.

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JonTerry wrote: Thu Dec 29, 2022 2:12 pm I was a lucky guy this Christmas,

The Mrs got me the elite upgrade kit, I have not used it yet but think the extra fine grits and the leather strop will get some good results.

She also bought me the electric Worksharp kit (Mark 2)

Thats going to take a little getting used to, I'll let you know how it goes.

JT
I purchased one of these sharpeners based on your comments.
It just arrived today. It’s a nicely made device and I’m looking forward to trying it out!
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Jeffinn wrote: Sun Jan 08, 2023 10:23 pm
JonTerry wrote: Thu Dec 29, 2022 2:12 pm I was a lucky guy this Christmas,

The Mrs got me the elite upgrade kit, I have not used it yet but think the extra fine grits and the leather strop will get some good results.

She also bought me the electric Worksharp kit (Mark 2)

Thats going to take a little getting used to, I'll let you know how it goes.

JT
I purchased one of these sharpeners based on your comments.
It just arrived today. It’s a nicely made device and I’m looking forward to trying it out!
Jeff
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts. :)
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I had a chance to try out the knife sharpener this morning on a couple of different knives. The process is pretty straight forward, clamp the blade, grind with 320 grit, then 600 grit and finally with the ceramic stone. I started wit a couple of 34ot’s that I put new factory blades in. These blades have the factory bevel but have not been sharpened so I spent a little more time with the 320 grit to get the edge I was looking for. The 34ot blade clamped up in the fixture just fine:
34ot main blade
34ot main blade
And the sharpening at 25 degrees went fairly quick. You do have to be careful to clamp the blade a bit forward in the clamp otherwise the stones might hit the clamp but this was a small matter. When I finished the main blade I clamped up the smaller spey blade to see if I could get enough clearance to put an edge on it. Again, if you’re careful with the blade placement in the clamp there’s enough clearance to grind the edge of even these smaller blades:
34ot spey blade clearance
34ot spey blade clearance
I moved on to a slimline hunter that I’ve been working on. It’s made of 1084 steel and had been given a preliminary grind on the belt grinder of 25 degrees. The blade was then polished. I wanted to clean up the edge and “re-sharpen it. It clamped up nicely in the fixture:
1084 slimline hunter
1084 slimline hunter
Because the blade was already previously ground to 25 degrees, re-sharpening it went fairly fast and I was able to put a really nice edge on this blade in about 10-15 minutes.
It might be a bit hard to see in this picture because of the reflections but it’s got a very nice edge:
1084 slimline edge
1084 slimline edge
All in all I think it’s a really nice sharpener and for the small amount of money paid it’s well worth the price. It’s my personal opinion (and only my opinion) that it’s a bit easier to use than the Lansky and possibly a bit more accurate as well. Additionally, I find the blade clamp mechanism to hold far better than either of my Lansky clamps.
The only negative would be the plastic construction. But even that is a minor fault as the materials used seem more than sturdy enough for the job at hand.
A cool little tool to add to my already over-crowded work bench!
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Jeff,

I'm so happy you like it, and you have got some good results there !!! Blades loook great ::tu::

I am very interested to hear that you found it a touch more accutate than the Lanksy and I suspect that as you already have a gist on how to use the Lanksy this would of been easy for you to set up and use efficiently.

I agree that if this was made of metal then it would be better, I am also thinking of getting one of those after market Clamp brances, which eliminate the up and down movement of the clamp with heavier blades, or when really grinding down with the lower grits.

Have fun

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1) Thanks for the review. I have a Gatco sharpener that works by a similar method. I bought it used, and the clamp has a tendency to hold the blades crooked. I had wondered if other systems worked better, and glad to know that this one does.
2). That slim blade hunter is gorgeous! I admire your work, Jeff.
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Reverand wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 12:54 am 1) Thanks for the review. I have a Gatco sharpener that works by a similar method. I bought it used, and the clamp has a tendency to hold the blades crooked. I had wondered if other systems worked better, and glad to know that this one does.
2). That slim blade hunter is gorgeous! I admire your work, Jeff.
Thanks for the kind words Rev!
That slim hunter was from one of the first batches of knives that I did (I believe it’s in 1095 carbon steel). I didn’t like the bevels and there were a few other issues with it so I set it aside. That was 4 or 5 months ago. I just recently saw it laying in the corner of the bench and decided to regrind the bevels, reprofile the blade, polish it all up and give it some new stabilized silver wattle hard wood handles. I still have some work to do on it but I’m hoping to finish it up this month.
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Jeffinn wrote: Mon Jan 09, 2023 4:47 pm I had a chance to try out the knife sharpener this morning on a couple of different knives. The process is pretty straight forward, clamp the blade, grind with 320 grit, then 600 grit and finally with the ceramic stone. I started wit a couple of 34ot’s that I put new factory blades in. These blades have the factory bevel but have not been sharpened so I spent a little more time with the 320 grit to get the edge I was looking for. The 34ot blade clamped up in the fixture just fine:
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And the sharpening at 25 degrees went fairly quick. You do have to be careful to clamp the blade a bit forward in the clamp otherwise the stones might hit the clamp but this was a small matter. When I finished the main blade I clamped up the smaller spey blade to see if I could get enough clearance to put an edge on it. Again, if you’re careful with the blade placement in the clamp there’s enough clearance to grind the edge of even these smaller blades:
95144B4C-EF4B-4AFD-A0D2-04D403F3FC4F.jpeg
I moved on to a slimline hunter that I’ve been working on. It’s made of 1084 steel and had been given a preliminary grind on the belt grinder of 25 degrees. The blade was then polished. I wanted to clean up the edge and “re-sharpen it. It clamped up nicely in the fixture:
074CCE4B-A0D3-4E4C-B0FF-AE6FB764E296.jpeg
Because the blade was already previously ground to 25 degrees, re-sharpening it went fairly fast and I was able to put a really nice edge on this blade in about 10-15 minutes.
It might be a bit hard to see in this picture because of the reflections but it’s got a very nice edge:
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All in all I think it’s a really nice sharpener and for the small amount of money paid it’s well worth the price. It’s my personal opinion (and only my opinion) that it’s a bit easier to use than the Lansky and possibly a bit more accurate as well. Additionally, I find the blade clamp mechanism to hold far better than either of my Lansky clamps.
The only negative would be the plastic construction. But even that is a minor fault as the materials used seem more than sturdy enough for the job at hand.
A cool little tool to add to my already over-crowded work bench!
Jeff
That is a nice looking edge on that slimline. Glad you like your new system. You are on the same page as many of the reviewers i have read about the plastic construction, but metal would make the cost so prohibitive they would not sell many i suspect. But love that bevel on the slimline, nice one. ::nod:: ::nod:: ::nod::
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