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Posted: 12/16/2016 9:57:12 PM EDT
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Bought my wife a calphalon set for her birthday. They're the nicest set of knives we've owned
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Posted: 12/16/2016 9:59:56 PM EDT
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Seems a little gimmicky to me. Are there any quality brands or brands to avoid? they suck give her a ginzu if she cant sharpen her tools |
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Posted: 12/16/2016 10:01:41 PM EDT
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never buy a wife s sharp knife
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Posted: 12/16/2016 10:03:48 PM EDT
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Tormek.
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Posted: 12/16/2016 10:06:51 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/16/2016 10:08:13 PM EDT
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Dibs on OP's stuff
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Posted: 12/16/2016 10:17:43 PM EDT
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Get her a set of GI machetes with the sharpeners in the scabbards.
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Posted: 12/16/2016 10:27:22 PM EDT
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Tormek. I want one! |
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Posted: 12/16/2016 10:46:26 PM EDT
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Buy her a quality set without the self sharpener. Then buy and teach her how to use a Chef's Choice correctly. It is an excellent sharpener.
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Posted: 12/16/2016 11:12:09 PM EDT
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Self-sharpening knives are bullshit. (I think)
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Posted: 12/16/2016 11:20:23 PM EDT
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Work Sharp WSKTS-KO Knife and Tool Sharpener Ken Onion Edition.
New tool for you and sharp knives for her or so I've been told.....I haven't changed me off the money yet to get my own. |
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Posted: 12/16/2016 11:27:26 PM EDT
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Get her a Kiwi knife and tell her to be careful.
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Posted: 12/16/2016 11:35:40 PM EDT
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never buy a wife s sharp knife <img src=http://www.ar15.com/images/smilies/anim_nono.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=http://www.ar15.com/images/smilies/anim_nono.gif border=0 align=middle> Always buy sharp knives. Dull knives (and cutting tools) are dangerous. A.W.D. |
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Posted: 12/16/2016 11:42:14 PM EDT
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https://www.amazon.com/SunrisePro-Knife-Sharpener-patented-Original/dp/B00RW7OYCO/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1481945774&sr=8-4&keywords=knife sharpener&tag=vglnk-c102-20
$21.95 from Amazon. I use it followed by a diamond embedded "steel" to freshen the knives I use whenever they get a little dull. Been using it for 8 years and it's still going strong. Buy this, and spend the rest of the money on things she likes. |
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Posted: 12/16/2016 11:42:58 PM EDT
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Dull edged tools require more force, and mor eforce means a higher probability of a deflection or a slip.
There is a reason for the saying "Let the knife do the work." It can't if it isn't sharp. |
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Posted: 12/16/2016 11:45:09 PM EDT
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There's a difference between honing and sharpening.
Honing corrects the edge of the blade. Sharpening removes material from the blade to restore a damaged edge. A knife that is properly honed after use does not need to be sharpened very often. Nor do knives that are not abused with incorrect cutting surfaces and bad technique. |
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Posted: 12/16/2016 11:46:18 PM EDT
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I want one! Me, too. I gotta make do with a Makita horizontal water stone. 
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Posted: 12/17/2016 12:00:05 AM EDT
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Tormek. One of my best purchases ever. Bought a 4000 grit Japanese water stone with it. Holy shit ... my knives are like razor blades. |
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Posted: 12/17/2016 12:02:08 AM EDT
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Spider-co sharp maker
Buy the additional ultra fine stones /thread |
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Posted: 12/17/2016 12:14:10 AM EDT
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Spider-co sharp maker Buy the additional ultra fine stones /thread This.... My old lady cuts hair for a living, she was paying some guy 40 bucks every 2 weeks to sharpen her scissors?? Needless to say all the ladies in the salon stop over here with a case a beer when there scissors need a touch up...  ... If I were single, I would go into sharpening scissors full time.. 5 mins on the sharpmaker and they are razor sharp, cash or ass 
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Posted: 12/17/2016 12:29:16 AM EDT
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One of my best purchases ever. Bought a 4000 grit Japanese water stone with it. Holy shit ... my knives are like razor blades. One of these years, I need to buy a set of water stones up to that grit. I've used a couple knives sharpened with one, and holy fuck. I usually stop at 800, but every few months I think about it. 
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Posted: 12/17/2016 12:30:34 AM EDT
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A self sharpening knife is a bit counter intuitive.
A good set of knives, a wood cutting board ( not bamboo) and a decent stone work great. |
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Posted: 12/17/2016 12:31:34 AM EDT
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One of these years, I need to buy a set of water stones up to that grit. I've used a couple knives sharpened with one, and holy fuck. I usually stop at 800, but every few months I think about it. <img src=http://www.ar15.com/images/smilies/smiley_abused.gif border=0 align=middle> Amazon has kings super cheap. Great stones for the price. If you want shaving sharp grab a strop and go to town. |
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Posted: 12/17/2016 12:45:11 AM EDT
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https://www.amazon.com/SunrisePro-Knife-Sharpener-patented-Original/dp/B00RW7OYCO/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&&tag=vglnk-c102-20;qid=1481945774&sr=8-4&keywords=knife sharpener&tag=vglnk-c102-20 $21.95 from Amazon. I use it followed by a diamond embedded "steel" to freshen the knives I use whenever they get a little dull. Been using it for 8 years and it's still going strong. Buy this, and spend the rest of the money on things she likes. Yeah, just get something like this. Basically cannot screw it up and takes a few seconds. Will be perfect for her. They do a decent enough job of keep knives sharp. Won't be shaving sharp, but it'll be MUCH better than a dull knife. |
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Posted: 12/17/2016 12:57:07 AM EDT
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Amazon has kings super cheap. Great stones for the price. If you want shaving sharp grab a strop and go to town. Good to know, thanks for the heads up. A strop is on my list of of knife sharpening gizmos on my list. It probably won't get used often, but I know how well they can refine an edge into 'fucktardedly sharp' with a few passes. 
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Posted: 12/17/2016 10:43:41 AM EDT
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A self sharpening knife is a bit counter intuitive. A good set of knives, a wood cutting board ( not bamboo) and a decent stone work great. An end grain wood cutting board is best. +1 for not bamboo. |
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Posted: 12/17/2016 11:23:32 AM EDT
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Another frigging oops.
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Posted: 12/17/2016 12:47:51 PM EDT
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I have a Chef's Choice sharpener, and do not like it. It is easy to use, and gets knives reasonably sharp, but it has a fatal (to me) design flaw.
It limits how far into the sharpener the blade can go, and it doesn't sharpen all the way to the heel of the knife when bolsters are present. After a few sharpenings, it can hollow the blade enough that it can't cut completely through items, as the hollowed area doesn't make contact with the cutting board. I have a Tormek and it works well, but it is inconvenient. It lives in the shop, so I have to haul the knives out, swap out the wheel, mess around with the jig and finally get to the sharpening, then clean up all the water mess. I found myself putting off sharpening because it was a hassle. I currently keep a coarse, medium and fine stone in my kitchen drawer along with a sink bridge (Kramer), and can put a shaving sharp edge on my knives in 2 minutes. We keep scrap paper and newsprint around because my daughters love cutting it up and are very quick to point out a "dull" knife that would be screaming sharp in many other kitchens. I'd get your wife a Tojiro DP or MAC knife, pick up a King 1,000/6,000 combo stone and a strop and she'll be in heaven. Pull through carbide sharpeners are better than nothing, but I would not use one unless I had no other options. |
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Posted: 12/17/2016 12:54:25 PM EDT
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I'd get your wife a Tojiro DP or MAC knife, pick up a King 1,000/6,000 combo stone and a strop and she'll be in heaven. This. +1 for Tojiro DP. Get a good ceramic hone, use it regularly and properly, and don't do stupid things with the knife. You will be amazed at what a decent Japanese knife will do. Oh, and keep it in its box, don't throw it in the drawer with all your other shit. |
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Posted: 12/17/2016 3:30:44 PM EDT
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Good to know, thanks for the heads up. A strop is on my list of of knife sharpening gizmos on my list. It probably won't get used often, but I know how well they can refine an edge into 'fucktardedly sharp' with a few passes. <img src=http://www.ar15.com/images/smilies/anim_beer.gif border=0 align=middle> I also have a piece of glass about 8 inches long x 2 inches tall epoxied into a groove cut in a foot long piece of 2x4 wood. I had it cut at a glass shop to order. They rounded the edge into a half-round for me. After sharpening my hunting knives and other tools requiring SHARP edges, I make a few passes on the edge of the glass. Man does it ever finish a blade. Cost me about $10 and a little time. Well worth it. |
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Posted: 12/17/2016 3:32:40 PM EDT
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Self-sharpening knives are bullshit. (I think) Totally. Plus unsanitary how they show it in the commercial - 'oh, just discovered my knife is dull while cutting food, let me just swipe it back into the storage block and sharpen it back up'. Gross. |
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Posted: 12/17/2016 3:39:02 PM EDT
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Hand her a wet stone tell her you already have one.
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Posted: 12/17/2016 3:53:45 PM EDT
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An end grain wood cutting board is best. +1 for not bamboo. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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A self sharpening knife is a bit counter intuitive. A good set of knives, a wood cutting board ( not bamboo) and a decent stone work great. An end grain wood cutting board is best. +1 for not bamboo. Why?  I have not heard about this!!! I thot bamboo was GTG? 
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Posted: 12/17/2016 3:59:56 PM EDT
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Get an electric kitchen knife sharpener. Knives need sharpening for every 10 minutes of use. A kitchen knife gets that in no time.
Knife sharpening is slow and tedious. She doesn't want to, whether she knows it or not. |
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Posted: 12/17/2016 4:01:55 PM EDT
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One of my best purchases ever. Bought a 4000 grit Japanese water stone with it. Holy shit ... my knives are like razor blades. A knife can feel extremely sharp purely from the burr. If it really is like a razor blade, it probably dulls much faster and you would have too take off a lot of metal because of the pitches. |
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Posted: 12/17/2016 4:02:54 PM EDT
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Buy her a few Wusthof Classic pieces, buy yourself a Ken Onion Worksharp.
Problem solved. Problem staying solved. |
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Posted: 12/17/2016 4:08:26 PM EDT
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It is gimmicky. Buy a nice set of knives and one of these. You just need to run it over the knife once or twice and it is GTG. The purists here will tell you it won't put as good of an edge on as some 4 gazillion grit stone handmade by monks and imported from Kathmandu, but it literally takes about 2 seconds to make it sharp enough to lop off your finger.
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Posted: 12/17/2016 4:09:01 PM EDT
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I want to choke out my MIL who "sharpens" our knives with the edge of another knife when we have a honing rod in the block.
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Posted: 12/17/2016 4:09:09 PM EDT
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Why? I have not heard about this!!! I thot bamboo was GTG? Bamboo is: a. hard b. abrasive c. contains significant amounts of silica. (most of the reason for a. and b.) None of these is a property of anything you want near your knives' edges. |
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Posted: 12/17/2016 4:10:33 PM EDT
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Why? I have not heard about this!!! I thot bamboo was GTG? It's a grass technically and is pretty abrasive. Dulls knives quicker than true wood. |
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Posted: 12/17/2016 4:14:23 PM EDT
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Spider-co sharp maker Buy the additional ultra fine stones /thread 
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Posted: 12/17/2016 4:39:09 PM EDT
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We have used this for a couple years now and it works fantastic. Use it on all my blades (except serrated).
Presto Knife Sharpener |
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Posted: 12/17/2016 5:19:50 PM EDT
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NVM
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