Idahone

Idahone has a number of V-sharpeners, Bench stones and honing rods, are you talking about the Fine ceramic honing rod?

If you're talking about the Idahone fine rod, they are great and work really well for getting an edge back to life. Won't work for grinding bevels or full sharpening of course, but for maintenance between full sharpening sessions it works like a charm.

The fine ceramic they use in their sharpeners is of good quality and consistency.
 
Bought set of triangle Idahone stones that are courser then stock medium for Sharpmaker's we have. Fit perfect but an inch longer if memory serves, which is a bonus. Also, I like their wood base, warm to eye and hand aesthetic, but did not know about Idahone until after we had already standardized on Sharpmaker. You can use Congress stones for even courser silicon carbide stones.
n a'corse, made n merica.:)
Folks give good reasons for buying round rod kits as well, but the Sharpmaker form factor gives plenty of experienced use with after market options.
 
777 Edge said:
Idahone has a number of V-sharpeners, Bench stones and honing rods, are you talking about the Fine ceramic honing rod?

If you're talking about the Idahone fine rod, they are great and work really well for getting an edge back to life. Won't work for grinding bevels or full sharpening of course, but for maintenance between full sharpening sessions it works like a charm.

The fine ceramic they use in their sharpeners is of good quality and consistency.
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Sorry for not being more exact.I was referring to their V type sharpeners.
 
I have a fine Idahone sharpening rod and the quality is good. Should be the same as the rods in their V sharpeners so you probably can't go wrong.

As far as I know, Idahone is also the supplier for Edge Pro's rods so quality control is good.

I once tried a ceramic rod from a Chinese supplier and it was terrible. The grit was very coarse and incredibly inconsistent, so I won't order from China again. Idahone, being a US company will give you good quality.
 
I have owned a couple over the years, the one I currently use now was hanging from a peg board hook and the rod actually fell out onto my work bench but didn't damage it. I just added a little super glue and pushed it back in and has been fine since. The quality of the ceramic rod is as good as any I've ever used and produces very good results, overall I think they are excellent ceramic rods. I have used the v type sharpeners too and are of good quality IMO.
 
The one thing I wondered about was the pink coarse rod being so coarse and the transition to the fine being too much
 
I just put some of the coarse grey triangle rods on order. Shouldn't be able to do much work on some of my harder steels but I figure that should be able to handle touch up work along with the regular brown medium rods and white fine rods that came with the Sharpmaker. Large knives in 1095 and even blades in D2 should be fine though. I will let folks here know how they work when they come in.
 
Robert Ptacek said:
I was referring to the pink round rods of the Idahone sharpener.
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I don't have those exact rods though given what I have heard from the rest of their products I would say it is good to go. Quality ceramics and if you do your part by holding the angle they will restore an edge just fine. Like others have said, none of their ceramics even the coarse ones that I have on order are going to be able to do any major edge setting work but that is not their intention. If you are looking to maintain your blades or just give some swipes every other day on your kitchen knives those should work just fine for that.
 
I know it's an old thread but I recently brought an Idahone and gifted it to family. Today I got a look at it and was able to use it a bit to quickly touch up a few knives they had, Shun and a Cutco. The coarse pink rods were hard to tell how well they abraded with the little sharpening I did but I liked the fine rods and the set up overall. The fine seems coarser then my spyderco fine, the coarse seemed bumpy if that makes sense. The rods diameter was small which I thought was good so sharpening serrations could be possible and the base seemed nice but nothing exceptional, I thought it had a tad of a wobble. I got them the erasers too and was told they work.
 
P_A_S_1 said:
I know it's an old thread but I recently brought an Idahone and gifted it to family. Today I got a look at it and was able to use it a bit to quickly touch up a few knives they had, Shun and a Cutco. The coarse pink rods were hard to tell how well they abraded with the little sharpening I did but I liked the fine rods and the set up overall. The fine seems coarser then my spyderco fine, the coarse seemed bumpy if that makes sense. The rods diameter was small which I thought was good so sharpening serrations could be possible and the base seemed nice but nothing exceptional, I thought it had a tad of a wobble. I got them the erasers too and was told they work.
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I guess I wanted to know if they sharpened faster than the Spyderco gray does.
 
Robert Ptacek said:
I guess I wanted to know if they sharpened faster than the Spyderco gray does.
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Yes, the Idahone coarse pink / brown-ish rod will sharpen much faster the Spyderco's medium gray rod-
Both are ceramic, Idahone's pink coarse rod is reported as 100 to 200 grit, the same as their grey coarse triangular rod which I added to Sharpmaker kit. Spyderco's medium rod (a favorite of mine for edge maintanance) has been tumbled down from 20 microns to 12-14 microns, which is about 600-800 grit (before finding citation below I incorrectly reported Sharpmaker medium as 800-900 grit- my apologies).

quoted directly from Idahone's rod replacement page= "Idahone’s ceramic rods, also known as crock sticks are extremely durable and rarely wear out from normal use. However, if your rod becomes damaged, we have replacements available for any of our V-type sharpening systems. Available individually or in full rod sets.
This set includes two fine grit and two coarse grit replacement rods for the CS2, CS4 and CS24 V sharpeners. Grit ratings on the rods are approximately 1200-1500 for the fine and 100-200 for the coarse. Measures 9" long by 5/16" diameter.

quoting Sal on his Spyderco forum when asked to compare medium Sharpmaker rod to water stones=
"medium = 20 micron, 600 grit, sandpaper 800."
 
Mr.Wizard said:
That quote is actually from member "Ric" not Sal.
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My appologies for the error, used scrub bar too fast I guess.
I hope Ric's report is close as I crossed thru an old quote I had archived, by Sal from another thread. I kept Rics quesstimate next to mine, n moved Spyderco's mediums to -
12-14 microns= 800-900grit sal Ric reports 600-800
Mr.Wizard said:
How do you like the Idahone triangular rods?
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For me Idahone coarse is a great addition to the Sharpmaker kit. I also bought Idahone's medium rod, which feels finished coarser then our Spyderco mediums. I'm hoping Idahone's will give the kind of service we have come to know from Spyderco's rods. I have only used both Idahone's on 2 blades that I had previously reprofiled, a 440C and s35vn if memory serves- My notes show I used the Idahone medium on an after market KME stone holder after coming off using flats of Congress 240 grit Moldmaster (Moldmaster's factory finish reported as 15 thousands 0.015 /0.381mm,on a call to them). Glad that I have Idahone's coarse 100-200 grit and Congress 240 grit Moldmaster, and Moldmaster 400 grit and Idahone's 500 grit medium!
 
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