nick parkes

The chefs choice turned up in the mail Wednesday, and I reckon it's pretty damn good! I tested a lot of different knives on it, and as long as the blade isn't too damaged it will get it extremely sharp. As for razor sharp? I think that depends on the quality of the steel. The Mitchell knife I ordered came fairly sharp, but after running it through the machine it is pretty much razor sharp and will shave hair off my arm. Some other mid priced knives went from blunt to the point I could run a finger up and down the blade with reasonable pressure, to super sharp in about 30 seconds. The cheap filleting knives came up very sharp, not quite as sharp as the others but plenty sharp for filleting fish. I've got some reasonably good quality chefs knives packed away in storage as we're between houses for 6 weeks, but I'm confident they'll sharpen up to a near razor edge too. I reckon it will sharpen knives to as sharp as the quality of steel will allow. Highly recommend one for the man cave as it make sharpening knives a 30 second job, no matter how blunt the knife is.

Will do Geoff.

Hey dudes, thanks for your replies. I did some more reading on them and on other brands. I ended up ordering a chefs choice 120 model delivered for 228$. A fair bit cheaper than the nireys and they got an average of nearly 5 stars from about 50 reviews. Hoping it will deliver what it promised! I'm also going to scrap some of my filleting knives as I think they're so cheap they struggle to get sharp and hold an edge. I realised this after a bait knife in the boat made by Mitchell engineering has stayed pretty sharp after 6 months of chopping through boney baits regularly. Now they are also a pretty cheap knife to buy ( under 20$ inc shipping) but I reckon the steel is of much better quality than the price tag suggests. Worth checking out on eBay and they make quite a few different styles.

Thank you for the replies fellas. I use an oil stone to sharpen my chisels at work and also for my broadheads, but still find its really only good for touching up a near sharp edge. I've been using a panel beaters or bog file for a while on really dull blades but have had mixed results, which I think is dependent on the hardness of the steel. But when it works it works really well. I'm not fussed about the electrics eventually wearing the knives out cos my filleting and hunting knives are cheap shchit! Probably haven't spent more than 20$ on a knife, except for a handful of scan pan chefs knives which might have been a little more. Just getting sick of wasting time sharpening knives and im after something to take a dull blade to new in a flash. How often have you had to change the belts in yours, Shanu?

Hey guys, has anyone had any experience with these sharpeners? I'm sick of blunt knives and going through the ceramic stone sharpeners. Have seen there's 3 different models and was after any clues as to how each one finishes the knives? I've seen a review on the ke3000 middle model which said it gets your knives to a razors edge really easily. Has anyone got one of the 3 models?

Hey Duncs from what I can see on YouTube the snake catchers don't like them and think they're useless. But that could possibly be because they could put them out of work! Reading comments on YouTube from users most have said that if set up correctly they've gone from seeing snakes around their houses regularly to not seeing any. I'm sure there's lots of cheap imports on be market too, and this could be half the problem.

The theory behind them makes sense. Snakes pick up vibrations through the ground and these supposedly give out a certain vibration that's meant to deter them. Surely there has to have been some research and findings behind them?

My old lady recently got 8 of these for around her house after they came home to find a metre long brown snake in their hallway. I hope they work as she spent about 900$ on them. They make an annoying beep every 10 seconds which is a pain in the ass if your sitting outside.

Ok they're rubbish. Well not completely, but rubbish for sharpening knives. They sharpen chisels and scissors pretty good, didn't try drill bits, but knives were crap. Just tried my cheap filleting knives and another kitchen knife and it gouges the edges. You get a sharp knife but not a nice even edge. Ill take it back tomorrow and look at getting a decent one!

I was chatting to a guy last night who I noticed had an electric knife sharpener in his office. Said it was 55$ from Masters, and works really well. Anyone seen them before? I think the brand was edge 9 edge or something like that on the box. It also did scissors and drill bits, and looked to have a couple of different settings to sharpen knives. Seems really cheap but if they work ill be getting one. Thought Id mention it incase anyone had one or was looking to get one?

Hey buddy, I love my led lenser pe-7. I'm sure there's better ones out there, but for around 60$ I think I paid for mine, plus 15 more for a scope mount I can't complain. And its really small and light. Got it on eBay from a genuine dealer in Brisbane. Got it a couple days later. It's plenty powerful enough for spotlighting rabbits with my 22 out to 60-70 metres. Beware of ordering anything from overseas, there's plenty of counterfit torches doing the rounds...