Kind of long, sorry.
Ok, so, yeah I’m new but I have to post my thoughts on this for anyone on the fence about buying this system. DO IT!
Personal back ground: Medically retired Military ( nothing speacial or all that exciting knees and shoulders gave out, oh and an eyeball,), Qualified instructor for unarmed (against mixed weapons), and knife counter knife. I’v been a knife nut for years. Iv done free handing with water stones, oil stones, diamond stones, used lansky guided system, DMT guided system, and now the Wicked Edge system. I love water stones, but they cost, and well, I’m lazy. lol. Now on to the fun stuff of why you should get of the fence and get this.
I recived my Wicked Edge pro pack 2 on Tuesday 02 April 2015. Wensday morning I set it up on my wifes dinning room table, and raided her junk drawer of crap knives. At least thats what I call it. You know the cheap Walmart blades, 440A, bad heat treat, those things, and laid a pile of the on the table to use to start breaking in the stones, and getting used to using this system. Now the stones are setteled in pretty well I feel, and my wife is now afraid to stick her hand into the junk knife drawer. Things I have done to this system…. After watching many, many videos like Modifidz (pretty sure I mispelled that, sorry), and Smoke eater, I used a few of their ideas. I took matting that is used in kitchen cabnets, so the dishes arent sitting on the wood, and rolled some of it, then taped that to the base as a rest for the rods even with the stones are on. I bought a couple of Plano plastic boxes from the fishing section of walmart to keep the stones organized, and hold all my pecies parts that I normally use. I also made a couple of plastic washers to fit at the base of the rods to help cut down on the metal dust from getting into the joints. I made these from the extra dividers from the plano boxes. I have now sharpened a Randall model 1, Randall model 5, Microtech Ultratech, as well as several other knives not from the junk drawer. Wow is all I can say about the edges!
Customer service. I called, and a person answered the phone! Not a damn machine! Better yet the person that answered the phone knew not only about the product, but how to help me address the problem I was having. I did not have to be transfered to some other department. I had a question about the leather strops, I admit this is my first time using guided stropping, and for me at least it is a lot different than regular stopping. I called in, and they talked me thouigh what was going on, and how to avoid what I was doing wrong. I called in with another question about a knife I was having an issue with clamping. No problems. Again a person answered the phone and they helped me out with that. Now that is customer service. I still have a lot to learn, but if you’r on the fence and read this. My advice, is get off the fence and do it. I really dont think you will be disapointed.
Just my 5 cents. lol. B)
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