I want to get a reasonable knife sharpener. I have upwards of 30 knives. I have knives for fish filleting, butchering, birds,  skinning and field dressing plus ordinary stuff. I was impressed with a Warthog set that I got my sone for his birthday a few years back. My other son is a butcher and does everything using an oilstone which I also do, but I'm not at his level of knife sharpening but he only sharpens butchery knives at 15 degrees or thereabouts. I want something a little less time consuming. Has anyone with experience in knife sharpening tried the Warthogs? How do they compare? I can't afford to get knives professionally shapened all the time nor can I afford a top end system such as Scary Sharp.

I’ve been using a Lansky sharpener for the last few years but it’s a bit fiddly and not that enjoyable to use so don’t tend to keep the knives sharp.
However, I recently bought a Warthog V-sharp A4 and can’t believe how easy it is to use. Once you get your knives to the right angle it’s just a quick few strokes and it’s done.
I’m actually very impressed.

Now you better than to come here for advice "smudge" as "steps" can give you all the expertise you need and remember you need a leather strop.

I have got a warthog and it works great takes a while to get an edge on a blunt knife but from then on its quick an simple.  Recently purchased one off temu its a block with set angles and a roller with different grades of grit and it works great just the roller could be a larger dimension for wider blades and was only 8 bucks and free delivery.

Hey Smudge, I have a Spyderco Sharpmaker sharpener which is a very similar concept to the Warthog - you hold the knife in your hand and push it down and pull back, with two vertical rods set at the edge angle etc. It looks to be a bit more 'free hand' than the Warthog - doesn't have the criss-cross effect.

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I struggled with getting a consistent edge on knives and after reading stuff on fishing.net a while ago I bought a Warthog and am happy with it. It seems to sit well above the mechanical, or electric sharpeners but without the skill requirement for more manual sharpening (or fiddliness of a Lansky).

I think I need one of these Warthogs!