Your knife sharping system?

[Wolfshead]

KME sharpening system for me.
I’ve had mine about 12-13 years and their customer service is amazing.
The absolute key (as has been stated) is to get a burr. If you’re not getting a burr then you’re probably not going to get the knife as sharp as you want.
I always work to get a burr, switch sides work to burr and I do that again. Then, after I have gotten a burr on both sides twice, I will switch to a smaller grit stone and work to a burr again, twice, until I am through all the stones to the finest grit.
A good way to find the angle of your knife’s edge is using a black sharpie and coloring the edge and adjust the sharpening system to take off the correct amount of black that has been applied.
The nice thing is that you CAN adjust the angle of what you want on your blade if you choose.
I personally use the diamond stones from 50 to usually 140 and the I switch to the natural stones from pink and then finish with the translucent stone.
Strop a few times and you will most likely be able to shave hair off your arm.
I’ve done hundreds of knives this way. Takes a little elbow grease but the results are wonderful.

 

[Vedran_R]

I have a old Lansky system that I superglued diamond plates from Work Sharp field sharpener and bent the rods so I get a nice little 17-23* convex. Been using it like that for over a decade. It's cheap and it works. Few passes on 600 grid diamond plus few passes on a strop with diamond compound and I'm golden.