Knife Jig

Feb 28, 2024 Last reply: 2 years ago 5 Replies

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Just bought this guy, and it works great. I sharpened my pocket knife and it just glided through an Amazon Bubble Mailer. I took a kitchen "spatula" knife, sharpened it to about 19 degrees and it's now wicked sharp. I've got a good consistent angle the whole way through and it just glides through food.



The instructions are pretty good, too. They were only in one language with no warning messages in sight. The stroke takes a little figuring out, basically you want to keep the stone moving side to side while it goes up and down. Setting the angle is a little funny, the holder is at



15 degrees to the jig, so when you put a protractor (I'm using the Ridgid Level app on my phone) on the stone, you add 15 to whatever the reading is.

Spend your time on the lower grits and get everything nice and flat and even. I spent most my time on the lowest stone, then when I got to the higher stones it took less and less time to remove the scratches from the last pass.



I'm not sure how I'm going to reestablish the angle when the knife needs touched up. They do show marking the edge with a marker then taking a very light pass to see where the marker is removed. If the whole mark is removed, the angle matches. I guess if I do that on both ends I'll have it close enough.



Puckdropper


In reply to "Puckdropper" who wrote the following:

I've seen these advertised for over $100, so I passed. For $34, I might just give it a shot.

I've kept this jig in my kitchen for years. It's a 25 degree angle guide. You just lay your stone on it and keep the knife straight up and down, which is easy to do with the naked eye. It works great, but maybe this device is the next thing.

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Looks great, good you like it.

I was looking at the first picture though why did they mount the knife blade cutting side in for that pic?

Look at the handle grip shape if you can't see the sharpened blade edge.

Take a close look at the first picture on the Amazon ad, the back bone of the knife is ready to be sharpened.

It does look wrong until you look at the handle .. The shape of the knife looks like a flat bladed Santoku -

- they probably could have chosen a better style for their illustration.

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John T.

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