I'm in the same boat as Ktek.
Are the lansky sharpeners necessarily bad? It's the only thing I can sharpen a knife with.
My first knife was a Camillus Mk2 KBAR that I got from a SEAL that used it in Vietnam. I did more to ruin that knife with my attempts at sharpening it then anything else.
It's crazy how much metal I took off that thing, and all I did was make it as dull as a butterknife.