I am a total dork when it comes to knife sharpening. I always feel like the knife that I have sharpened is no better than before I started, if not worse.
In the old days, there is this knife sharpening peddler that cycles by my neighbourhood on his bicycle peddling his trade. We get him to sharpen our knives and he does quite a good job. But I don't see him any more these days. Last sighting of him was something like 15 years ago.
I think my problem all along was in keeping my sharpening angle consistent. The very old worn out concave surface of the sharpening stone just made things more difficult for me, if not impossible, I think.
So to aid me in sharpening the dull knives in my house, I got myself one of these fixed angle knife sharpening device (DISCLOSURE: this is a Lazada Malaysia affiliate link) last week. There are a lot of different fixed angle knife sharpener designs out there in the market. But I settled on one that is easy to set up where no additional tools, like an Allen key or screw drivers, is required.
