Worksharp Knife and Tool Sharpener

If you're a person that works with your hands. Like I am, I'm guessing you're also a person who likes to have a pocket knife in your pocket. There's probably spots in your life where you're frequently using knives, plus other cutting tools like scissors and other stuff. What's really good news for us is that work sharp has a new addition on their sharpener and it works really, really well and really, really easily to keep that stuff crazy sharp. And in my woodworking video, as I've said, frequently, a doll tool is way more dangerous to use than a sharp tool.

And that's even more true. I think with any kind of a knife implement you might use in the shop, camping, hunting, whatever it is you're doing. So, first off, let's talk about what we can do here really, regardless of the shape of the blade, whether we are convex, concave, filet knife on a hunting knife with a gut hook. You can also sharpen the gut hook, serrated blade. That's really good news for the person in your kitchen knives.

At our folders often have a thumb tab and a belt hook on them even with the thumb tab and the belt hook, we can sharpen and then of course, scissors, a variety of other stuff can all be sharpened on this. When you start your sharpening, just like you would on a woodworking project, you can choose the grit you want to start at, depending on what condition the blade is in. So we can start course, work our way up to fine starting course if you need to take out nicks or anything. Great news is that the owner's manual that comes with it is really, really, really good. And what we need to know from this is depending on the use of the knife.

What angle you would sharpen it at? Is it a kitchen knife? Is it a hunting knife? And then also what grit they recommend you start at what speed you want you to run the machine at? So this is crazy cool.

It's got variable speed. Now, what I like about this is especially when you're first getting started, run it on low speed because at low speed, you're going to take off less material. So as you're going through the learning curve of how do I use this device, there's less chance you're going to make a mistake because we're using low R PM. Again, the owner's manual is going to give you the recommendation for depending on what sharpening operation you're on. Where should the speed be?

It's all very well laid out now on the sharpener itself. We've got a couple of things going on. I've talked about depending on the blade you're going after we're gonna want to change the angle. That's what this is all about. So I can finesse the angle at which I'm sharpening based on hunting knife, kitchen knife, again, whatever the application is, I can dial that and the effect of this is changing these guides.

So you'll see when I sharpen a blade, the blade is going to rest against that guide. And that's why then as I dial this, you can see these move in and out. So let me get where I know I want to be for my first knife on this side, we've got another guide. And if you're sharpening a longer knife, we can use that guide to take advantage of resting there, starting the sharpening process. And again, I'm going to hold that against the guide there.

Pull through, come to the other side, rest there, get against the guide. Start, pull through on a hunting knife. You may not need to take advantage of that. So I'm going to take you through the sharpening of this blade right here. Now, the way this works is I've already taken this through the course of grits.

I'm on the fine grip on the fine grit. We're gonna do a pass here, get against the support, do a pass here and not only is work sharp defining for you what grits, what speed? It's also telling you how many passes per side you should typically make in order to get the edge that you need on that knife. So the way this will work is I'm going to rest against the guide, get to my starting point, turn the sharpener on, pull through, stop and do the same. On the other side, speed is preset.

One of the things I like about this is it's subtle, but you may have noticed the belt flexes slightly around that edge. It's given me a convex cutting edge. And what that means is that there's a lot of support behind the edge. So especially on a knife that I'm going to use under tough circumstances, that shape is going to help us hold its edge for a long time. There's a very cool attachment for this that I want to show you as well.

And let me do just a couple of changes here of the cassette. That's what this component is called. And we'll have a look at that other attachment. I really love the grinder attachment. I like that.

I can stand here and I can see exactly what's happening when I'm using a course or grit. You're developing a burr on the top side of the blade, I can see that bird develop. So I love the control that this gives me as with the original attachment, the original cassette that was on here, a variety of grits are available so you can grind, you can hone, you can change the angle depending on what knife you're working on. In this case, it's a little bit different. There's a knob on the back side.

When that knob is loose, I can adjust here in order to change the angle and set it to whatever it is I'm working on. You can see easily here too. If I wanted to do a hatchet or a machete, it would be very easy to bring that blade and do the sharpening on this grinder attachment. The way we maintain the angle you saw me doing this a second ago is this is my leveling surface. I'm gonna come here.

I'm going to get my point of reference for the mechanical repeatability I need. Then I'm gonna come here and do the hone. Yeah, this provides just such an easy way to keep knives sharp. And what I like about that is that if this is easy to do, you're going to do it, how many times have you like not wanted to go through a pain in the butt process of sharpening because you just don't want to go through the process. So having it simple means you're more likely to do it.

And that means you're going to keep your stuff sharper. And again, the the variety of stuff that we can sharpen on this convex concave serrated gut hooks, there's a huge array. The owner's manual is great. It's a lot of positive benefits to having this sharpening set up in your shop.