Tri-Angle Sharpmaker with Safety Rods, Instructional DVD, Two Premium Alumina Ceramic Stone Sets for Blade Repair and Professional-Grade Finishing - 204MF

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I have to add my own praises for this little baby. This is a great little unit. In all the years I've been buying products from Amazon this is the first review I felt was worth doing (sorry for the length of it in advance). I have Henckel and Wustof knives and noticed that some were in need of a sharpening. First off, like a lot of the folks who bought this, I'm no sharpening master, and someone had recommended a hand-held pull through sharpener from a well-known company. Salesman said I wouldn't regret it. Wrong! I think it actually made the knife I tried it on worse. Dutifully followed the directions, first pull through slot one then slot two etc, but the knife couldn't pass the paper cut test (and frankly the grinding sound it made as I pulled the knife through the slots made my hair stand on end so it might have been defective). Spoke to a friend of mine who is a kitchen knife nut. He has many blocks of knives that he collected over the years and still uses. He recommended whet stones and manual sharpening the old school way. So, spent waaaaay too much time on-line looking at youtube sharpening videos. Looked interesting but was not too keen on my chances of getting and keeping the right angles for all the knife sizes. There are tricks on the web like using a certain amount of pennies or quarters stacked up at the back of the knife to raise it up and get the right angel. But the examples I saw seemed to be mostly for bigger chef knives. What happens when the size of the knife changes? If you have to go from a wide Chef to utility, steak or really thin boning or paring knives, then how many pennies? And then I wondered, if I did manage to find the angle can I keep it throughout the sharpening? Maybe not. Might graduate to freehand stones at some point but right now just wanted to get my knives sharp without a lot of fuss. So, kept hunting around for various contraptions (Yes, I was obsessing by this point). Electrics and pull through were out after my last experience. Mechanical contraptions? Lots of them and some looked really good but could cost up to 150-250 dollars. The cheaper ones looked a little flimsy to me and read some bad reviews on construction quality. So came down to a few options like this one. Liked the look of this unit as it looked pretty well constructed and thought out. And seemed simple and fairly fool proof to use, just pull down along the rods. (Hint; This unit comes with a DVD training video as well as a booklet. The actual training video is uploaded on youtube by Spyderco in 4 parts. So you can view the training video before buying the unit and see how it works and what it does. Search for Spyderco Sharpmaker - Introduction uploaded by Spydercoknives. Strongly recommended). Ordered on Thursday, delivered on Monday using standard shipping (extra points for quick service). First up, a by now fairly dull Henckel utility kitchen knife. I had already watched the training video on-line a couple of times so went right to it. A few minutes later the knife sliced through paper like a razor. No fuss, no muss. No worrying about holding angles. Just keep the knife straight up and down, which was very straight forward. I've read comments that if you have to aggressively re-profile a badly damaged blade the medium stone on this may not be enough. That's true of individual whet stones as well. If you have a badly damaged knife that you need to remove a fair amount of metal from you'll need to buy a very course stone. A medium/fine, 1000/6000 combination Japanese water stone won't do it either. Did I mention I spent way too much time researching this stuff? The whole stones area is a virtual sub-culture; Arkansas stones, Japanese stones, water stones, oil stones and ceramic stones (which is what the rods that come with this are)and so on. If you had standard stones for manual sharpening you'll need 3 grades at least if you have a lot of badly neglected knives, coarse, medium and fine. You'd need something like a coarse diamond stone to re-profile the blade and this unit has optional diamond stones/rods that you can buy for just that, if needed. In fact, it also has optional ultra-fine stones that you can buy. That was one of the selling points, that this unit is expandable. That being said, the rods that come with this are probably all you'll ever need. You probably won't need those optional rods for most ordinary sharpening. Like I said I had a pretty dull utility knife that couldn't cut through much anymore that was sharpened razor sharp with the rods provided with this unit. Also all my steak knives, none of which could cut through the paper, now all of them do. Even did an experiment with one of the steak knives. Used the old pull through again, following the directions and it just tore at the paper. Then used this unit. Now it cuts through no problems. You might have to go through the whole sharpening sequence a couple of times for very dull knives but once they're sharpened just the occasional touchup should do. So I would suggest you start with what comes in the kit and get the optional diamond rods later if needed. Almost all Western style Kitchen knives come at 40-45 degree angles inclusive from edge to edge (20-22.5 on just the one side) on the bevel. Don't have hunting or field knives so can't comment on that, but note other reviewers comments that they may have fatter angles and need more effort to reshape to 40 degrees. It also sharpens a bunch of other things like scissors and tools, again I would suggest you watch the training video online, but I haven't used it for any of that yet so can't really comment. I really think this is an excellent product and think it does everything as advertised. Would buy it again in a heartbeat. I'm like the other reviewer actually looking around for more things to sharpen now. Only 2 last pieces of advice; Firstly, the video recommends that with the coarse stones you rub them together a little to break them in and get the factory fresh smooth surface off of them. They will do this by themselves when sharpening knives for a while but this gives them a head-start. It's the coarse grit that does the sharpening. So if you don't get the results you were expecting for the first knife or two that might be the problem. You need to break them in a little first. Secondly, it doesn't take a lot of pressure. First couple of times I noticed my hand was starting to get tired. I was pressing way too hard. So if you notice your hand getting tired just ease up on the pressure.

ho provato tanti affilacoltelli mediamente economici ma tutti sono risultati scadenti, sembravano affilare ma in realtà hanno rovinato le lame, in particolar modo quelli al tungsteno letteralmente mangiavano il metallo sopratutto la parte centrale rendendo la lama concava. su vari siti di esperti tutti consigliavano le pietre ma senza esperienza è difficile mantenere l'inclinazione giusta per affilare bene. alla fine ho scelto questo spyderco sopratutto per la sua versatilità (si puo affilare di tutto compresi cacciaviti e ami) aspettandomi un buon prodotto ma è risultato essere un eccellente prodotto. lame che non tagliavano nemmeno il burro all'improvviso affilatissime. il funzionamento è semplice, basta inserire le bacchette negli appositi buchi prima di piatto poi dall'angolo e far scorrere la lama dritta e perpendicolare al piano d'appoggio sopra di esse(su youtube si trovano molti filmati tra cui anche quello del dvd fornito in inglese ma facilmente comprensibile) per piu e piu volte (da istruzioni venti). ci vuole un po di tempo ma il risultato è incredibile. volendo so che si vendono due bacchette ultra fine ma per le mie esigenze non necessito di lame affilate come rasoi nonostante il prezzo alto possa spaventare con questo kit non avrete piu bisogno di comprare affilacoltelli nella speranza che funzionino e sopratutto di coltelli nuovi perche i vecchi non tagliano,basterà perdere quei dieci minuti all'occorrenza e starete apposto per una vita.

After reading about lots of different techniques and products for sharpening knives I finally settled on this after some glowing reviews from around the internet and I must admit I am very very happy with this product. The first knife I sharpened was a cheap, yet brilliant, Victorinox pairing knife which had been slowly getting duller and duller for the past few months. Within 10 minutes it was razor sharp again and as good as new. With the included brass rods I never worried about cutting myself either. The instructions come in DVD form and in a manual and are very easy to follow but I would definitely invest a few minutes paying close attention to them as I think it would be as easy to ruin a knife as it is to sharpen it. In a nutshell however you start with the brown stones in the 40 degree holes and run the blade, held perpendicular, down the edge of the stones 40 times (20 each side in turn). You then do the same again on the flat of the brown stones before moving on and repeating the same process on the white stones. The one tip that I cannot stress enough is to not let the tip of the knife run off the stones as this will quickly round the tip and you will have a time re-profiling again. After building up a bit of confidence with the sharpening system I sharpened a few of my more expensive pocket knives and the results were just as impressive. All in all I would recommend this to anyone who wants to keep a few kitchen knives sharp to anyone with a keener interest in knives.

Parfait ,compact, sécurisé, rapide a mettre en place/ranger en suivant le manuel , résultat garanti, tranchant quasi rasoir et bien symétrique en respectant le nombre de passe par coté Peut tout affuter, ciseaux/pince coupante/tout est concu pour avoir un angle d'affutage parfait Un peu cher pour du plastique et 4 barres en céramique mais fait réellement du bon boulot