Absolutely each of us several times a year has a need to sharpen knives. The steel at the ends gradually grinds, and when the moment comes when you need to exert maximum efforts to cut vegetables or bread, we think about how to sharpen this tool. Of course, you can use the old-fashioned old-fashioned way and process metal with a file. But you can go the other way, applying a special sharpening for these purposes. And if you have a desire to craft something, you can do it yourself. If so, then this article is for you. So, how is the Lansky sharpener made? Can you create something like this with your own hands?
Prepare the board
To begin with, we need to take a board about 35-40 centimeters long. A hole should be made in it using a drill. It needs to be drilled only in the center, and not from the edge or somewhere else. The width of the hole should be 10-11 millimeters. Now this board needs to be clamped in a vice and polished all its irregularities with a file. After that, additionally treat its surface with coarse sandpaper.
Bolt Operations
It is necessary to saw off 4 sections from the rail (approximately 80 millimeters), in each of them make one hole. However, here you need to drill not in the center, but along the edge (a little closer to one of the sides). How do you do the sharpener for a knife with your own hands? At the next stages, you should take the bolt, thread it through the same board with the hole and place it in the slot. At the same time, it is also necessary to put a bolt on the second section of the rail and tighten it with an additional nut. With the rest of the boards we do the same. As a result, you should get something like a vice. When these "vices" are ready, we can assume that we have already dealt with one half of the device.
How to make a knife sharpener with your own hands ? We are finalizing the second part of the mechanism
Now it remains to finish the rest of our grinding tool. To do this, we need another 40-cm board, rail and a piece of leather. The latter must be very tightly pulled onto the surface of the slats, and hammer on top with nails (in this case, the textural side of the skin should be concave inward). We attach the finished tool to the board. Everything, at this stage, we can assume that the do-it-yourself knife sharpener is successfully made. We only need to cut the edges of the boards so that both halves of the device are standing vertically at a certain angle. The tilt level does not have to be 45 degrees. Choose the slope of the board so that you are comfortable using it. Now nail the device to the base (leave a slight gap between the base surface and the sharpener), and then put something like a cover into the gap left.
To do this, you can use the remaining pieces of trimmed boards. Everything, at this stage, the do-it-yourself knife sharpener is successfully done. Now you can safely proceed to its operation. Such a sharpener for
ceramic knives will be the best cutting device and your reliable assistant in the household!