Review: Edge Pro Sharpening System - From Dull to Shaving Sharp 

Imagine a hour long version of this...just listening to skall rambling,with the light sound of sharpening in the background-perfect cure for insomnia

"I'm gonna spend a little more time on this off camera" "Ok i'm back now after about two weeks" "This blade can now cut holes into the fabric of space"

Blade sharpening sounds are so calming

Didnt think skalla would make a video of edging

Skrall, you should get some 3m lapping film for the final edge. I go down to 0.3 micron (about 30,000 grit) and have perfect edges, even under 60x magnification. Forget about merely cutting newspaper when you can literally shave the print off.

It's really the stones that cost the money, you can buy a kit almost identical to this for Kitchen knives for like £20, but of course that does not come with stones of anywhere near the same quality.

i would love to see skalls' old ramblings and philosophical videos while sharpening blades. especially using this system.

I don't have anything against this sharpening system but you really shouldn't discourage people from learning hand sharpening by saying stuff like it's easy to mess up. Hand sharpening is really fun plus you learn an actual skill. Keep up the good work

Are we going to ask for that "Nothing but 10 minutes of sharpening" video?

I've had the same system for the last 2-3 years, I absolutely LOVE IT! My daily use knives to kitchen knives and even friends/ family all end up asking for me to sharpen or "touch up" their blades.

Nice vid! thanx. Some tips i picked up, if you don't mind me saying; 1: fix your edge-pro to the bench! it saves energy and frustration 2: buy a stop collar to compensate for difference in stone thickness 3: please protect your blades with some masking tape.. The scratches are a waste on a nice blade like that 4: buy the 2300 grit diamond stone... it makes a mirror edge!! 5: make a stropping stone yourself with a piece of aluminium and some leather. It makes all the difference! Happy sharpening!

Lovely job Skall :) Was thinking of getting one of these sharpening systems since I felt a bit scared of something like the work sharp, now I can see just how they work.

The intro was like "Hi there neighbor"

I recently picked up the Worksharp Ken Onion model and I love it! I sharpened EVERY knife if the house! I'd been hand sharpening my knives with a simple whet stone for decades and still had some small inconsistencies in my blade edge. Not so with Worksharp, it gives shaving sharp edges every time. However, I too have a few blades that would benefit from the flat grind capabilities of the edge pro AND you don't need electricity so it's 'bug out bag' ready to go!

I want this for Christmas. My collection is tiny since I'm not exactly rich (A sword, a spear, and a knife, ALL of which were bought off a friend who needed to make room in his own collection for the better stuff,) but I like the discipline of training, and would appreciate an efficient sharpening system because I'm not experienced at doing this by hand.

Sharpening is definitely a learned skill. I can still get sharper with a system like this and definitely more consistent.

Hey Skal, I know that stainless steel is no good for a sword, but just how long of a blade would stainless steel be fine for?

Just got a new Arming Sword in the mail today; so I'm in a nice sword-mood ATM.

Turn this into an ASMR video. Also, good review. I might get one of these as it looks quite cathartic and relaxing

It is not nearly as cheap as I thought it would be, hell its more expensive than the worksharp and the worksharp attachment combined.

ohhh yeah! wranglestar showed an earlier version of this a while ago! it's really good!

FOR ANYONE LOOKING, I recommend going with a Ruixin rx-008 sharpener system for $50. It has a clamp to hold the knife so you don't have to with your other hand, and the stones are decent enough. I would recommend it highly over the edge pro and it fits the higher quality edge pro stones or any other stones designed for it.

I really liked this video - it was very informative, and it was fun to listen to you geek out over precision knife sharpening.

I have been sharpening my knife by hand with a stone, and this seems to be a good alternative solution, I will investigate, thanks skall

I get my 9 1/4 inch chef knife to shaving sharp with a whet stone and a ceramic rod lol took a few hours to get the technique down, but I got it much more consistent now.

Ahhh, that could do it lol. Reminds me of the Ontario marine raider. A few throws left it bent around 20 degrees and I didn't even miss. I've been wanting to buy one of those Mexican bowies to make a mean fast back cutter. Although it didn't hold up to the testing I probably still will because it'll be a strictly combat knife. I have a kmg 2x72 knife makers belt grinder so I'll be able to fully sharpen both the edge and the whole clip

I've been trying to sharpen blades for years and am really just now able to make an edge to shave with.

Skallagrim, rub some glycerin underneath the suction cup and then stick it on. it will stay forever. Dish soap also works.

I recommend getting a diamond stone for faster reprofiling and flattening the other stones, and also a drill stop collar for adjusting for variable stone thickness. I think my diamond stone is a 6" DMT 325 grit, works great :)

That is some elaborate and innovative stuff.. can you do longer blades though?

So I checked out this sharpening system through your link but $255 is too expensive to buy on impulse. The next day I'm browsing Wish and I see a more or less identical system for ~$25. It came in today. Knobs are less ergonomic and the clip isn't as robust, but it works really well.

Ay another Skallagrim video. Just a quick question, have you thought about making videos on other types of weapons (e.g. guns)? Don’t get me wrong, your videos on melee weapons are great. But, you’ve in a lot of videos that you have an interest in guns, so I dunno I guess you could do a Top 10 guns video :D maybe you could even judge the accuracy/realism of guns in some animes or movies. It’d be cool to see you talking about other types of weapons and maybe weapons from different regions/eras (e.g. I’d like to see your opinion of the kanabo)

Last time I was this early,Skall liked pommel jokes

used my sharpener for the first time today! Put a textured rubber mat meant for cabinets underneath the feet. It wont slide at all!

I've started using the slidey thing as a clamp on mine. so instead of resting the blade on the edge of the slide bit i loosen it and slip the spine of the blade underneath and tighten it down. much easier than holding the blade in place.

Hi Skal :) Hope you are doing well. Your videos are a still a fun watch and it makes me happy every time I see that you've uploaded. Please keep it up. I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you though. Hand sharpening is in my opinion better than these expensive systems. I've only been regularly sharpening and honing some small blades for about a year now (I'm in the UK and a student hence small blades) and even 7 months ago I was getting my knives to shaving sharp quickly and without much effort. I even got a knife back to shaving sharp with the bottom of a tea mug. Plus a small fine stone is more than you need and is portable. When you demonstrate that the knife is indeed shaving sharp you can see your skin being moved by the force you are pushing down with. That may be that you just have really soft skin but personally I think my results are better with freehand sharpening. Anyway please don't think I'm having a go I'm just putting my opinion and experience out there. Again I love your videos and hope that you still enjoy making them. Have a good one! :)

When will you have the video of sharpening a longer blade?

I get the impression your measuring tool was measuring total angle and the edge pro's settings are per side so the value you set should be 1/2 the reading from the measure. I could be wrong, but looks that way and thought that might be helpful if you hadn't seen the possibility.

This video is really putting me on edge...

I bolted mine down to a plastic cutting board. Works well. It needs to be steady.

Hey a video with wranglestar shows him and the creator of the edge pro and how to modify for different angles that aren't factory set. It's a few years old

Got a stainless Chinese knock off for $30. Works great, no plastic to break, and you can stick magnets to it.

I have been using the same model for a few years. I found out that some slight mods make it much better. 1. Get a large glass flat baking tray and mount the device in there, this way the water and muck does not get everywhere and your suction cups hang on much better. 2. Buy a drill-collar with a grub screw and mount it on the vertical shaft under your bed. Then when you get your angle adjusted you can bottom the stone on it and secure it in place. Now when you change stones you loosen the top screw and position the new stone on the collar, and readjust your bed and tighten it back down. This gives you a datum point that is relative to the thickness of the stone and doesn’t mean that you have to re-adjust the angle each time you go to a new grit (Thicker or thinner stones). Takes all the guess work out. There is a great demo here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HoHW3TUdz5s.html

You may be interested in the wicked edge system. It would be cool to see a comparison video.

As far as my experience goes, I only used three rectangle draw/water sharpening stones. If you don't skip one it's smoother. The cut , I mean. It feels better to use especially for high quality kitchen knifes.

This is therapy, really.

I usually don't like fantasy or middle eastern blades, which this looks like, but this one looks really good.

Seems like you'd get an uneven grind due to only a small portion of the blade being ground at a time... More suited for small knives...

I like it. I've been afraid of sharpening with belt sanders and grinders ever since I bitched up a hunting knife (which was a gift, so I was a bit distraught over that).

Looks like a good product, might just take the design and make one for myself.

I guess I'm old school. I don't find keeping the angle by hand is hard, just takes practice and the marker trick you showed is how I taught myself. You don't have to adjust any knobs or anything if you do decide to change the angle either. I just use the cheap diamond stone from Walmart and the edge it leaves on my cheap CRKT Minimalist (my EDC) cuts through cardboard boxes at work better than a fresh box cutter and last slightly longer. I always freshen it up every week whether it needs it or not, or if I hit a staple or something I'd fix it later that night.

this kinda remind me of a tool made for chiesel sharpening, it had basically a guide and some roller where you held the chiesel and just runned it up and down the stones

I see what Wranglerstar meant when he mentioned the little things that you had to do to make the other edge sharpening systems work.

Which divice would you actually recommend for recurve blades?

Iv always sharpened by hand on stones. Some stones are splash and go like what you did here but some stones do require soaking. It just depends on the stone type.

I know this system and it's a good device indeed, however still the best way is to learn to sharpen by hand, because that removes all limitations and issues with blade size or shape, and makes sharpening axes a non issue as well, or all the longer blades. I would agree convex is harder to achieve by hand, but not impossible either if you use a sponge like base for sand paper on top.

I thought from the thumbnail you were attaching blades to a drone, damn...

So I have found that 3M 3350 tape is awesome for knife prep. Actually, bought some for an A/C job and it's worthless for that because it is not foil tape(though it does look like it it is metalized mylar), but for knife prep it is amazing just because of it's excellent waterproof adhesion, toughness, and it is super thin to boot. Oh and it's also easily applied to the blade, and it pays to take it past the blade all the way to the handle for protection of the handle...again, this is not aluminum foil tape it is like metalized mylar and so super thin and easily formed it rocks! win win give it a shot

you're quite sharp.

You could always fix the feet of the sharpener permanently on a flat base that also catches the dust. Also these are a little expensive, so I would suggest work sharp and one of those V shaped sharpeners and one sharpening stick for the bur

Do a video on who's sheild is better a Vikings or a Spartans

I was surprised at the price. I got something that looks exactly the same (if less good quality) for a tiny fraction of that price, and even then I was considering just making my own version.

hope there will be a tac force knife review in the future

This looks really good and effective. But i have to say i still prefere handsharpening. You just have to learn it once so i think it is worth the effort. It took me litterally years to get it right i started as a kid age 9 or so. My Uncle showed me how it was done and than it took me dozens of ruiend knives and maybe 4 years until i could at least get a knive remotely to "cut" paper. It was such a painfull proces... Now 15 years later i am very very confident of getting any blade as sharp as i want. I dont even need all the fancy whetstones i bougt ... If an edge is not damaged just moderatliy dull i use a natural stone(belgium couticle) and a leather strop with some diamond paste. Tere is not a single opinel in my posetion i couldnt very comfortably shave my face with.... Sorry for rambeling so long. If you shy away from practicing sharpening an rely on those system for years upon years you face some pretty big disadvantages in the long run. First of all a liftime supply of old fashioned (but top notch performing)handsharpening utensils can be had for well under 100 Dollars. You dont rely on a big apparatus you have at home but nowere else... Chances are if you have acces to any sutable abbrasive material you can sharpen any knife anytime anywhere. And you dont rely on the shape of the knife beeing compatible whiht the mountig mechanism on your aparatus...

If you want a really smooth sharpening stone, you should leave it in oil overnight. I do this for my woodchisels and it makes sharpening them a whole easier task.

Also, I think this one is better for "shave sharp" edges. So it is not required for swords. Notice that the belt sanders drag the dust along the belt, so the 80-90% of the dust goes on the surface

since i use my fallkniven dc4 and cc4, i really have a hard time to acknowledge the usefulness of most sharpening systems. in the time you setup most of them, i'm done getting the blade back to shape, in the time you got started sharpening, i'm done polishing. i just use a kitchen carbide sharpener for super damaged blades and that's it. 5-10eur for a cheap kitchen sharpener, 20-25eur for each stone, and that's it. i take those two stones anywhere, go 8 time each side of the blade on each side of each stone, then go a few time on the leather sheath of the stones, and that's it, i can shave with it... the only downsides are that you may not be as precise, and need to hone your skills before honing anything else.

I wish I could justify it's cost. Although it's not the same quality the Chinese have copied this device as well. He sells a glass disk to mount the suction cups to but I bet a ceramic tile or a piece of lexan will do the job for less.

Is this good for swords though? Knives are easy but free handing my pride and joy is too scary, no other sharpening system that I've looked at seems to be better suited to sharpening swords than this but here you say it would be difficult. What do you use?

Never knew that the GREAT AND POWERFUL skallagrim would make an edgy video...

can't you do convex edges by constantly adjusting the angle ? of course you wouldn't be able to do a smooth convex edge, but if more "squared" convex edge is not a huge problem I see this tool doing it.

I use a Lo Ray sharpener for my pocket knifes. Don't know if he has systems for blades that big though

you should do a review of the TSPROF Knife Sharpener

"Some people like to soak the stones for a little while, but it doesn't seem to be necessary." Reminds me of my old music teacher regarding a cleaning agent and the recorders. "Once it's wet . . . *ITS WET*"

how long does it take to sharpen one average kitchen knife on such system? Sorry, I could not watch the entire 18 minutes, you may have mentioned it, so I would not know.

We need a pommel sharpener

I hope in the 3 years since this was made they've added a better hand guard. One slip on the up-stroke could be very painful.

i just know that there are some people who are gonna ask you to put the entire procedure to another video

Do you think a jeweled pommel is too impractical for a decoration?

Hi, Skallagrim! Is It really Works? About the Stones, 1500 is enough or do you recommend 3000? Congrats for the video.

Roll that paper for your test cut, which is clearly tougher, takes more force, but is it tearing the paper fibers or clean cutting them? This is the test...A dull knife can shred paper if the paper is held and meet to the edge, but even a semi sharp one can fail the roll test.

13:24 i though he would say "im back after 2 weeks in the hospital by wrist cut :P

Hey Skall! I do not know if you said it in the video, you probably have, but I just can't find the moment. But anyways, is this able to be used for blades or other weapons? Loved the video by the way!

Nice vid, but you need to install the system on a glossier surface. The suction cups are sliding all over.

ye sharpening freehand is more time consuming - at start, its actually pretty fast once you get it - but its also a lot more relaxing for me

Is there a particular reason to maintain the sharpness of an edge, be it a sword or axe, that you can shave with it? I haven't seen all your videos so I apologize if you have already talked about it, but I don't see the need to put in that little extra time for a sword, of course I do with my kitchen knives.

asmr when?

Looks like the angle setting is per side, so with 24deg you get 54 edge.

interesting device, could try to build one homemade, by fixing a classic sharpening stone lke a DC4 or something, could work?

This video is too edgy for me

So you can basically strop the blade with the polishing tape? I need one of those.

very cool shit. I like that edge protractor, that's interesting

I hope you do realize that the further you go off center, the smaller angle becomes. So you might run into consistency issues...

Great review, very informative thanks.

I have the mk2 work sharp I seem to be making a dip at the beginning of each knife . Sucks because i have decent knives

so, why use this tool in favour of the dual-side sharpener which you pull knives through? Do they wear the blade more or something?

Butcher here who is terrible at keeping knives sharp. Anyone know if this thing is good for 7-14 inch slicing knives? I need an easy-to-use device, and all the cheap stuff eventually ruins the knife. This thing might be a bit excessive for what i need.

I think i'll stick to my full sizes wetstones to be honest. This is way to fidgety for me. And if the angle still varies due to the thickness or shape, then what's the point really? Every knife is different

You're pretty good.

have been waiting for this