Western Active Honey Badger

Edge Pro meets Honey Badger

Posted on December 9, 2020June 7, 2021 by westernadmin

Honey Badger Knives by Western Active Edge Pro Sharpener

We have previously written about the various types of sharpeners on the market. Here we take a look at one of the very well priced systems in the market. We use one of the Edge Pro Apex kits to show how easy it is to restore the original factory shaving sharp edge to your Honey Badger knife.

Our kit contained a number of stones including aluminum blanks onto which the supplied polishing tapes can be applied.

The Edge Pro Apex comes in a number of configurations depending on how many stones you wish to have included.

In the past customers have complained about struggling to keep the knife steady on the sharpening platform with one hand while sharpening with the other hand. The folks at Edge Pro listened and introduced a retractable magnet under the sharpening platform. This gives you the option to use it for smaller knives that will remain in a fixed position while sharpening and being able to retract it for the longer kitchen knives that need to be repositioned during sharpening. Below you can see one of the Honey Badger knives being held in place with the magnet under the platform.

Another new accessory is the slide guide made out of machined aluminum. The Slide Guide gives you 2 points of contact on the knife. This improves blade stabilization and allows quicker, more repeatable blade placement.

The common sharpening angle for all our Honey Badger knives are around 23°，except the Claw Models where the angle is 30. On the Edge Pro The sharpening angle is set by sliding an adjustable collar up and own the rear color coded post.

To be sure that we had the correct angle, we used a sharpie to blacken an area of the edge of the blade. We then ran the 220 stone very lightly over that area to see if the ink would be removed as expected. We then made minor adjustments and settled on a position between the yellow and the green markers.

We started with the Edge Pro 220 stone to remove any of the factory grind marks. After every few strokes we used soapy water solution in the provided squeeze bottle to keep the stones clean and to help prevent the swarf from embedding into the stone.

After a dozen or strokes on each side we then moved to the 400 grit stone. Here you can see it really doing it’s job as it refines the edge.

After another dozen or so strokes on each side we were left with a very well defined and shaving sharp edge. We wanted to see how easy it would be to restore a really great edge with the minimum of fuss so we stopped after the 400 grit stone. This also means that the Edge Pro Apex 1 Kit would be all that you needed to get to this point.

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Superb Craftsmanship and design, Excellent EDC Knife!

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The large drop point is my jam!! How perfectly this knife is engineered and appointed is almost an enigma to me! How did they get it to be so good and so budget friendly?

Honey Badger Knives are top notch for quality.

I do not own a a Honey Badger knife at the moment but I’ve heard nothing but good about these guys! I’m a beginning knife enthusiast and I live for the more budget friendly and on the occasion one that is more expensive for my collection. I’m adding all knives from different brands and if I won a knife from Honey Badger then they will have a spot in my collection and hopefully grow with the other brands I have now. Here’s to winning giveaways 🤘

I live in south Africa and love the Honey Badger knifes, excellent product competitive with ANY top tier name brands, parts and warrantee available easily. I will NEVER buy another top tier knife from abroad!!

Great quality at a great price point, replacement parts and ways to customize your knife. What more could you ask for?

honey badger has really good high quality knifes. i was gifted one, and since then i have it in my pocket all the time. once i lost it, so i told my family that who ever finds it gets 20 ILS

I love honey badger knives design.

Very nice nkife

Best pocket knife I’ve owned. Have carried all the major brands for years. And great options in other brands, but what impressed with this brand is truly the quality of the blade, fit and finish. This is a gentleman’s/grown up’s knife though. Thin super sharp blade. If you use a knife as a screw driver and to jam into hard things, look elsewhere.

Just bought the honeybadger knife HB1017 flipper medium and I am well satisfied with it except for the lock bar. When you close the blade the release nub has a sharp edge that hits the end of your thumb. I filed the edge off without a problem but I feel this should be addressed by the designer.

Nice looking knife!

Great knives at a reasonable price

Honey Badger knives are obviously built from quality, reliably sound materials to withstand vast and rugged conditions while simultaneously flaunting a full array of blade/handle shapes and designs ranging from more tried and true classic looks to more unexpected, innovative and eye-catching, yet still finding itself repeatedly snug in that go-to, forget-anything-but-this-one, even-running-way-too-late, oh-no-H0£¥ §H%actually-all-those-knife spot