KME, Gatco, Lansky, Sharpmaker

[elknut1]

KME for life here! I haven't come across a knife or blade including Silver Flames I couldn't sharpen yet!!! I can even sharpen my wifes 12" Cutco kitchen knives down to the bleeders on a magnus stinger head.
  I've also tried out a Lansky, the KME is better suited & my choice!

  ElkNut1

[Sharpster]

Originally posted by Kingwouldbe:
Curve, I've used 3 out of the 4 the gatco and the lansky are about the same thing.

I think KME is by far the best construction and precision, the stones are the week link, so after I wore out the stock stones ( they beveled ) I replaced them with higher quality stones.

The KME jig is the best.

I just got the KME broadhead sharpener, but I have not mastered the thing yet LOL ( I need wider stones 4" wide )

Dave,

Which stones bellied out? With the exception of the extra coarse silicon carbide, all our stones are guaranteed for life. (all SC stones cut fast but also wear fairly quickly).

The coarse and medium are aluminum oxide, and the fine is a hard Arkansas. None of these should belly out unless you sharpen 8 hrs a day for years.

Again, the blue/black silicon carbide X-coarse will belly but, its a grinding stone that's basically an "extra" we throw in for occasional use to get  very  dull blades started.

I have been using the same coarse, medium, and fine stones for a couple of years and have never been able to belly one even slightly. My brother sharpens knives for people at the shows/shoots we go to and has sharpened close to a thousand knives over the same time period... his are still going strong too with no sign of wear.

Part of the reason that our sharpener costs more than the the others is because we insist that every component is the absolute best quality we can get, including the stones. Everything is American made and unconditionally guaranteed.

Do you still have the original stones? I'd like to see them because, while I have no reason to doubt you, I've never received a single complaint about the stones bellying before.

As for the BH sharpener, heck get it out and give me a call. I'll walk you through sharpening a BH right on the phone.

Ron

[Pat B.]

Ron, I would really like to see you offer a high quality file that would fit in the stone holder of your knife sharpener.. This would be for either reshaping or reworking broadheads.. What do you say ?

[amar911]

For those of you who say that the KME stones are not the best and that you recommend replacing them, what replacement stones do you recommend and where do you get them?

Allan

[Kingwouldbe]

Originally posted by Sharpster:
 

Originally posted by Kingwouldbe:
Curve, I've used 3 out of the 4 the gatco and the lansky are about the same thing.

I think KME is by far the best construction and precision, the stones are the week link, so after I wore out the stock stones ( they beveled ) I replaced them with higher quality stones.

The KME jig is the best.

I just got the KME broadhead sharpener, but I have not mastered the thing yet LOL ( I need wider stones 4" wide )

Dave,

Which stones bellied out? With the exception of the extra coarse silicon carbide, all our stones are guaranteed for life. (all SC stones cut fast but also wear fairly quickly).

The coarse and medium are aluminum oxide, and the fine is a hard Arkansas. None of these should belly out unless you sharpen 8 hrs a day for years.

Again, the blue/black silicon carbide X-coarse will belly but, its a grinding stone that's basically an "extra" we throw in for occasional use to get  very  dull blades started.

I have been using the same coarse, medium, and fine stones for a couple of years and have never been able to belly one even slightly. My brother sharpens knives for people at the shows/shoots we go to and has sharpened close to a thousand knives over the same time period... his are still going strong too with no sign of wear.

Part of the reason that our sharpener costs more than the the others is because we insist that every component is the absolute best quality we can get, including the stones. Everything is American made and unconditionally guaranteed.

Do you still have the original stones? I'd like to see them because, while I have no reason to doubt you, I've never received a single complaint about the stones bellying before.

As for the BH sharpener, heck get it out and give me a call. I'll walk you through sharpening a BH right on the phone.

Ron [/b]

As has been said before, the KME comes with RON.

Ron, I believe it was the extra course stone that believed.

I went to diamond for the x course and finish with the hard Arkansas.

Ron I'm sure it was opporator-err

  I did mis-speak it was the one stone that beveled, and you still don't have a compliant.  I did mis-speak it was the one stone that beveled, and you still don't have a compliant.

I am editing my first post as I mis-spoke and it's not fair to KME to have said what I said.

As I have said:  I think KME is by far the best construction and precision,

[Sharpster]

Originally posted by amar911:
For those of you who say that the KME stones are not the best and that you recommend replacing them, what replacement stones do you recommend and where do you get them?

Allan

Thanks Allan,

I'd like to know that too.  If  there are "better" stones available, I'd like to try some myself.

Ron

[Curveman]

Thank you so much guys-this was very helpful! That you as well for the PM's. I remember as a scout I needed to master the old flat stone etc. and there are those who will berate me now I suppose for even using a guide, but a knife is just a tool for me at this point and I really just want the ease of a perfect sharpening system.

Thanks again,

Steve

[amar911]

I'm with you Ron!

Allan

[Craig Schoneberg]

My experience is exactly what 'Kingwouldbe'said -except for the KME broadhead sharpener.  Have had mine for quite a while, and still haven't mastered it. Know it will work too, just have to give myself more time to work with it.

[Doc Nock]

If you're trying to re-bevel a hard laminated broadhead with Ron's KME Broadhead sharpener, CALL HIM!

I've run across several people who gave up on hard laminated heads like Griz & a few others.  It is a tough roe to hoe if you don't get the inside skinny from Ron.

Put on a pot of coffee and call him. He'll get you lined out soon enough. At least he'll get you to where you know WHAT you have to do and how long to do it...so you don't just spin your wheels!

Signed: Chairman/CEO--- International Assn of Sharpening Impaired Persons
Doc (can't sharpen nuttin w/ a file or stone)Nock