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Lansky Sharpeners
Lansky Sharpeners invented the guided sharpening category. In 1979, Arthur Lansky Levine, a surgical student who had been fascinated since childhood by the Microtome scalpel sharpener at his uncle's coroner's office, combined his medical training with years managing his family's sporting goods store and built the Controlled-Angle Sharpening System in his parents' basement. Customers came to the house to buy them. Every guided system on the market today descends from that design, and the family-owned company still runs from Buffalo, New York, honoring Levine's legacy since his passing in 2010.
The Controlled-Angle Sharpening System
The system that started it all clamps the blade in a multi-angle jaw while guide rods pass through angle slots at 17, 20, 25, and 30 degrees, locking every stroke to the same bevel from razor-thin fillet edges to heavy chopper geometry. The Standard 3 Stone System runs 120, 280, and 600 grit hones with honing oil and a fitted case, the Deluxe 5 Stone adds range at both ends, and the Professional system includes a serrated hone. It remains the most approachable entry into serious sharpening among all the guided knife sharpening systems we carry, four decades on.
Diamond and Arkansas Stone Systems
The Deluxe 4 Stone Diamond System runs 100 through 600 grit diamond hones that reset bevels on modern powder steels like S30V and M390 far faster than ceramic, with one firm rule: never use honing oil on diamond hones, because it clogs the coating. At the other end of the spectrum, natural Arkansas stone systems use Novaculite mined from the Ouachita Mountains for the refined, polished edges traditional sharpeners swear by, with soft and hard Arkansas replacement stones stocked alongside the full hone range in our sharpening stones department.
The Turn Box, Benchstones, and the Puck
The Diamond/Ceramic 4-Rod Turn Box carries the Crock Stick lineage Lansky acquired in 1991, vertical rods at fixed angles for clampless freehand touch-ups. Diamond benchstones in medium through extra fine handle kitchen knives and blades too large for the clamp, folding diamond paddles cover field sharpening, and the Dual Grit Puck, the round 120/280 grit stone that has ridden in more chainsaw cases and camp boxes than any sharpener made, keeps axes, machetes, and lawn tools working. The Universal Mount and Super C Clamp lock any Controlled-Angle System to the bench, and the whole ecosystem lives in our knife sharpening supplies department.