[76Highboy]

After using my KME Knife Sharpener this week, I can get my knives sharper my just using my stones by hand rather than by using my KME. If a person is not used to using stones, than I think the KME or the Lansky is a good choice and trust me, they are sharp. But, if you are good with sharpening your knives by hand, I would stick with that. The problem is, once you use a fixed blade system, you can only go as fine of a grit stone as the kit offers. If you try go back to running that knife by hand on a finer stone, you will than change the angle which defeats the purpose of a fixed knife sharpener. I go pretty fine for a razor sharp edge, so the KME just doesn't go fine enough for what I am trying to achieve. I have never used diamond stones, only have readers knowledge on them. Comments are welcome. Jim