Copy stand sharpener DIY

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I’ve been looking at numerous sharpening kits for a bit and was considering the Lansky system or the Spyderco Tri-Sharpener. I was leaning towards the Spyderco and then I noticed an unused copy stand in the office. I set my ancient bench oil-stone on it, adjusted the angle and gave it a try.

WELL! That was easy. I got shaving sharp edges w/ a few swipes. Now full disclosure; my knive were plenty sharp before but…. using the copy stand made it simple to keep constant angle and pressure on the edge.

The copy stand I had is a Kensington sold at Staples for $10.99. I’m going to remove the gray part of the stand and retain just the base and adjustable parts. It’s not super rugged but perhaps a bit of added weight or some anti-slip feet on the base would improve it. Here’s a link for the stand:

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Haha wow so simple i might have to try it!!

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I need a zip code so I can have a look. Thanks.

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MRsDNF: You make your own lights but didnt get the idea to look for the zip code of (for example) New York on wikipedia? :P

FYI: 12345 also works. Thats Schenectady, New York. :D

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Thanks NightCrawl. Its Friday night here and I'm doing some night crawl (to the bar), Thanks. Wikipedia, Is this some sort off Greek? You owe us 735 threads on custom lights.

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Dont have a lathe. :/

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Neither does Old-Lumens...

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I have pics of the sharpener just need a way to post ’em. Someone suggest a free hosting site? or a way to directly post ’em on BLF?

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Imgur

Just drag the pic to the site.
Click start upload.

After that copy the direct link(2nd down)

Press the pic simbol on the comment box:
Paste link in the img URL:

You are done.
If you want you can select the size of pic.

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http://imagevenue.com/host.php

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Hey thanks! I’ll post pics shortly.

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Thumbnail links to pics:


I haven’t glued the aluminum bars down yet so its all held together w/ poly tape. The bench stone is a very old med/coarse oilstone on one side and a fine oilstone on the other. Note the gap between the bottom of the stone and the base. The space allows a full blade sweep w/o striking the base. The stone angle is adjustable. I have a few other pics I may post later.

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I can’t say that I am familiar with US zip codes either, but the one for Beverley Hills sprang to mind…… :bigsmile:

Now you just need a second copy holder and stone and you have your ‘V’! :wink: Bit bulky though.

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SW,

You are correct, two would be very bulky. The single works very nicely. I’ll post some better pics after I clean it up and glue the aluminum down.

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Please?

Everyone?

PLEASE notice the second input box in the Image Posting dialog…

Notice it says “Relative Width %”?

Enter the number 100 there, please.

Now notice how beautiful your exceedingly-large picture is on EVERYONE’s monitor?!

I always paste the URL TWICE — in the Image URL box AND in the “Link to URL” box so you can click on the pix and see them full sized. Any modern browser will automatically scale just the pic, but for some reason when Firefox displays the posts in this forum, the “simple” picture posts just wreck the whole thing.

THANK YOU for reading this, thank you for DOING this!

Dim

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I wrote the post in a hurry. Didn’t realize one of the pics was too large. Sorry.

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Please don’t be sorry! Just pass the word and make better posts.

Thank you!