Review on Professional-Grade Finishing 🔪 Sharpening Tool: Spyderco Tri-Angle Sharpening by Chris Drury

This is the missing part of the sharpener. Brown stones do not cut aggressively enough to remove nicks or change the angle of the edge profile. What would take an hour with brown stones would take a few minutes with these. I use large DMT diamond blades for sharpening woodworking tools, so I'm used to not applying too much pressure. Some reviewers say the diamonds are falling. Nothing for me with light pressure. Once you've worked with diamonds, you'll quickly get bored of anything else for coarse sharpening. I use diamonds, then some brown stones, then some white stones. I don't use edges for anything other than jags when they fit, or sometimes a hooked blade. It's true that you can get a good diamond plate and 4000 grit Shapton glass stone for about the same money as this plus a sharpener, but for ease of use I'd recommend this for knives (certainly not chisels or other woodworking tools ) . It's much easier to keep the knife vertical than trying to maintain the angle on a horizontal board. Some people have built coasters to hold their rocks or plates at the same 15 or 20 degree angle to the vertical if you like. sharpening kit and buy an extra ceramic stone for it if you need a polished edge. Besides feeling the burr and maintaining a constant angle, it helps to have a 10x triple loupe and look at the edge after each sharpening step. I see a lot of videos on You Tube of people going through the ritual of six water stones to get the benefit of a few more hits on the half removing all the scratches in a much shorter amount of time. Watch videos made by knife makers, not users - they don't waste time.