Totally Impressed, but probably need more bandaids.

[Autumnarcher]

My KME sharpening system arrived today,and I mmediately went to work on a fw older hunting knives that needed some work.

It lives up to every positive review Ive read on here over the last couple years, and in no time I had touched up several blades to better than factory sharpness.

The  knife I got my son for Christmas came out of the ox with a very unimpressive edge on it.
About 15 minutes of work and it peeled hair off my arm with ease.

I can't wait to tinker with some of my Zwickeys on it.

[MTArrowLauncher]

thats great to hear, i am hoping to get it soon

[karrow]

i got one for xmas as well. it is a well built tool did you get the diomond or stone model? igot the diomond. what angle will you use on your zwickeys

[Autumnarcher]

I got the stones. Havent played with it with the broadheads yet, I'll match whatever angle theyre at now. I should keep busy with it, I have all our kitchen knives to do, all our hunting knives, my fillet knives and broadheads. Im gonna need to pick up honing oil by the gallon.

Good thing I got a refridgerator for the man cave, I might get thirsty doing all those blades.

[NoCams]

Just finished two more fillet knives, two pocket knives, all while sitting in the recliner watching TV. I had bought some extra course stones to compliment the extra course diamond I had and they seem to work very well too. The extra course diamond is a metal hog, love it !

Autumnarcher, I dumped that rotten stinking honing oil out of the bottle and put olive oil back in it. That honing oil stinks about as bad as the high sulphur thread cutting oil I used to swim in everyday in the machine shop....nasty ! I only use a few drops of oil on my regular stones and swirl it around to, "clean " , them now and then. I run my extra course diamond dry.

Done for now, not a dull knife in the house.... may go sharpen the disposable razor blades in my utility knife in the garage....  

[Autumnarcher]

I have afairly good assortment of hunting knives. Today I was able to restore 2 of them to service. Both, through several "shaprpenings" at my hand over the years, had become so dull, the bevels on them were so rounded over I could never get them to that level of sharp I wanted, and even if I got close, they wouldnt hold an edge.

One wa my old Buck Crosslock. I've gutted and skinned a lot of deer with that one, but it fell by the wayside. I was never very good with a stone, and as Ive learned real fast, I needed a lot mor tiime with course stone than the assortment of fine stones I have.

The other is a special knife to me, its small fixed blade, and was my Dad's old hunting knife.
While Dad never was much good at huntin, and gave it up when I was but a lad, he hated dull tools. This old knife had been hangin arouund for years. The sheath for it disappeared many years ago, and the edge was in bad shape.

I clamped it up, and due to the narrow blade, it was difficult to get the stone to lay on the edge and not the clamp. I raised the angle way up, and went to work. It took me some time, but Im happy to say Dad's old knife now sports an edge he'd approve of.

Now I just gotta find someone who makes sheathes to see if I can get one made for it. its a great little knife, I'd like to see it back on my belt.

My only regret in purchasing this kit is that I didnt do it sooner.