knife sharpener

Clamp your knife in place, fix the wet stone on the slider and just sharpen your blade. This fixture is ready to go with only 3D printed parts and therefore needs no extra hardware. You might add a couple of M3 bolts later (or similar) for your convenience though. Should fit a lot of different wet stone sizes.Printing:Since some parts are intended to glide/slide on each other, printing in PLA only is highly recommended. ABS or PETG are great materials but somewhat known to stick on them self and not gliding very smooth, so better avoid them here. All parts are desingned with tolerances from 0.25mm to 0.5mm, so everything should work on a moderatly tuned printer. If you are not sure about your printers accuracy, you might cut some parts in your slicer, in order to have some test prints first. All parts should be printed in the given orientation. No supports needed. -Note-The threads may be hard on your printers capability. Make sure to have your XY-Compensation and your extrusion multiplier in check. If some of the threaded parts seem to bind, dont worry and work them free by hand. They will run smoothly eventually. If you notice some of the threads curling slightly upwards because of weak cooling, you might have to give them a little sanding with sandpaper. It is highly recommended to have a test print though. Use Base_KnifeBlock_Nut and Base_HightAdjusterBolt for this. If you are using a silk(ish) filament, you might have to compesate for its swelling. If you encounter some issues with your test print and the threads just wont work right or your slider gets stuck, choose the “big tolerance parts” They feature bigger tolerances on the threads and the GuideRail partAssembly:Assemble the base first and the slider assembly second. The position of all parts can be taken from the assembled .3mf version. The KnifeBlock and the AngleBlock are designed to be swapped easily but if you want to fix them in place permanently, you can bolt them down with a M3 bolt (or similar).