Patent ID: 6848983

Claim:
A blade sharpener, comprising: a sharpener body which defines a file cavity for holding a file with a planar surface, and a blade slot for guiding a blade to be sharpened, in which said blade slot is wider than said blade, so that said blade may contact said planar surface of said file at an angle chosen by the user; a file for securing in said file cavity, and for contacting said blade to be sharpened; and a file securing means, for releasably securing said file in said sharpener body; wherein said sharpener body is configured to guide a blade to be sharpened into said blade slot, either normal to said file planar surface and against a blade slot sidewall or at an angle to said file planar surface for a beveled edge on said blade, where manual back and forth motion of said blade to be sharpened against said file results in a blade sharpened at the angle of the blade and the file planar surface.