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I have been giving these pocket sharpeners a trial.

So a bit of a run down.
The big yellow one I have had for a while it gets the dodgy knives You know you when go to someone’s place and they hand you a $5 kitchen knife and ask you to touch it up. It works well enough but I just don’t like tungsten carbide drag sharpeners they just rip the blade up to much.
The smaller Black, Smiths one with the fold out diamond rod works the same but is a better buy, one from the compact angle and with the diamond rod for serrations.
The large black thing to the left is a double sided diamond paddle it has a small tool platform and a hook groove. I really like this, being double sided allow the quick removal on better quality knives that have had a hard life. Coupled with my ( Spyderco) 204 these two do most my away sharpening.
The little Pen at the top is the Victorinox Pen sharpener. I like this. It is not for thicker blades but for SAKs ( Swiss Army Knives) it is perfect ( funnily enough).
It has a ceramic drag sharpener in the short end. The ceramic is much gentler than the Carbide versions. The other end has ceramic “steel” on the other end it is oval cross section for serrations and has a hook groove down either side. Small, light I like it.
The small stone with the groove is a Smiths Diamond plate. A bit coarse for my liking but it does go into the stone pouch on my Ontario USAF survival knife.
The final stone is the Fallkniven dc4 I like this as well. The Diamond particles are smaller and seem very consistent I use a small piece of that non-slip matting cut to size on a flat surface for the diamonds then free hand with the ceramic back. The ceramic seems to have almost a grain on the surface but it doesn’t affect the performance at all.
So sum it up. Don’t use the big yellow any more.
Small black one is good, compact, it does serrations and now rides is the bag of tricks for those cheaper knives that haven’t been sharpened since the battle of Hastings.
The pen is good but I use it more for the steel now and travels with the kitchen roll for quick touch ups. I did use it on one kitchen knife ( a Six inch Mundial Chefs) exclusivly for about 6mths and couldn’t fault it.
Big paddle does the heavy jobs on the good knives.
Small diamond plate lives in the pouch on the USAF knife.
Large Fallkniven is for good quality small blades like a normal stone.
Ps the smaller Fallkniven plate DC3 will also fit in the USAF pouch.

Carl

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