How to make a knife sharpener with your own hands?
Absolutely each of us several times a yearthere is a need for sharpening knives. Steel is gradually worn off at the ends, and when the moment comes when we need to do our best to cut vegetables or bread, we are thinking about how to sharpen this tool. Of course, you can use the ancient grandfather's method and process the metal with a file. But you can go the other way, using a special sharpening for these purposes. And if you have a desire to do something, you can make it yourself. If so, then this article is for you. So, how is the Lansky sharpener made? Can you create something like that with your own hands?
Preparing the board
First we need to take a board lengthabout 35-40 centimeters. In it, with the help of a drill, it is necessary to make a hole. Drill it only in the center, not from the edge or anywhere else. The width of the hole should be 10-11 millimeters. Now this board must be clamped in a vice and polished all its irregularities with a file. After that, additionally treat its surface with coarse-grained emery paper.
Operations with a bolt
It is necessary to cut off from the slats 4 segments (approximately 80millimeters), in each of them to make one hole. However, it is necessary to drill here not in the center, but along the edge (slightly closer to one of the sides). How else is the knife sharpener made for oneself? In the following steps, take a bolt, pass it through one board with a hole and place it in the slot. In this case, it is also necessary to install a bolt on the second section of the rail and screw it with an additional nut. With the rest of the boards do the same. As a result, you should get something like a vice. When these "vise" are ready, we can assume that we have already coped with one half of the device.
How is it done knife sharpener? Finalize the second part of the mechanism
Now it remains to finish the rest of theour grindstone. To do this, we need another 40-cm board, rake and a piece of leather. The latter should be tightened very tightly on the surface of the slats, and the top to hammer nails (while the texture side of the skin should be concave inward). The finished instrument is attached to the board. All, at this stage, we can assume that the knife sharpener with their own hands has been successfully done. We only need to cut the edges of the boards in such a way that both halves of the device stand vertically at a certain angle. The slope level need not be 45 degrees. Choose the slope of the board so that it is convenient for you to use it. Now nail the device to the base (leave a small gap between the surface of the base and the sharpener), then place something like a lid in the left slot.
