Different knife sharpener

[Lil Doodler]

Howdy, thought I'd share an easy to make tool to making it easier to sharpen. 

The ideal is that you put the stone at the angle, and hold the knife horizontally as you move it. 

 

This one I made is adjustable for many different angles. Move the dowel rods to adjust the angle. Use the angle locator to see what your is.

Most swivel knives I've seen have an angle of 30 degrees. It's easy to move the different dowel rods in the different holes to get different elevations

[Lil Doodler]

It's made of a couple of pieces of scrap wood, a hinge, dowel rod cut to different lengths and a piece of scrap screwed at the bottom to hold the stone in placw

[Lil Doodler]

Just hold the blade horizontal to be at the proper angle for sharpening or stropping 

This one is good because you can adjust it to almost any angle used for sharpening. I made a smaller one to use for stropping the swivel knife. I use rouge on a card, put the card on the little block.

 

[Lil Doodler]

You can adopt this for other types of stones. If you can cut the wood at the angle you use the most  it will be simpler - not adjustable, no hinge or dowel rods.

This one is at 20 degrees for kitchen knives

Edited June 14, 2020 by Lil Doodler

[Grumpymann]

Thanks for sharing!

[chuck123wapati]

Now that's a good idea!

[Lil Doodler]

Oh, I forgot to mention, using this at 15 degrees is excellent for sharpening your head knife. It can be challenging to sharpen the left and right sides at the same angle on a stone that's laying down. Again, just keep the blade horizontal

[Lil Doodler]

Sharpening the outside

 

Edited June 14, 2020 by Lil Doodler

[Lil Doodler]

That Johnson's pitch and angle locator sells for under $7 at Home Depot and on Amazon