Lansky Deluxe 5Stone Sharpening System Simplified

If you own a Bowie knife, you’ll certainly want to know how to sharpen that blade. While Bowie knives are certainly larger than most other types of knife, sharpening them is really not very different. In fact, you will be able to use the same whetstone as you use for many other types of blades.


The process of sharpening a knife is all about removing metal from the blade, but doing so in a controlled pattern. The angle at which you hold your knife will determine some of how much metal is removed, as will the duration of the sharpening process. If you choose to use a sharpening system, make sure that it offers several different angles in the guide, so that you can achieve the sharpness and blade shape that’s right for your knife.

Once you have ground down one side of the blade and raised a burr, you will need to flip the knife over and grind the other side. This will raise a burr all the way down the blade (including the tip of the blade). Once the burr has been raised, you should use a fine whetstone or a strop to remove the burr and reveal the true edge of the blade. Further stropping or honing will polish the edges, as well.

Think about chainsaw sharpening tools and your mind will start making a sketch of a round file because it is the earliest and most popular tool used for sharpening cutting chain blades. And it is surprising to see that the round file is still used by saw users. It is used for giving the touch ups to the edges of a cutting chain.Round file is certainly not the tool we are talking about because it has no safety features and above all it can’t do a quick job. For instance you need the saw; you take it only to find that its blade has become blunt. Certainly you will want to sharp the blade b

But then, with this situation in mind, a question now arises, where and who should sharpen the already dull hair shears?