Top 3 Best Knife Sharpeners for Your Kitchen

1. Chef'sChoice^® 315 XV Professional Diamond Hone^® Knife Sharpener, Electric

Chef’sChoice^® by EdgeCraft^®, model number 0315101, is a versatile sharpener for straight edge or serrated knives with 15-degree angles in a stunning black color. This is a corded-electric best-selling knife sharpener on Amazon.

This knife has edge guides for double-bevel, single-sides, serrated, and 15- degree (not 20-degrees for this model) edges for Chef’s knives, Santoku knives, single-bevel Asian knives, cleavers, bread, hunting, filet, and pocket knives. Remember, it is a 15-degree knife sharpener at this amount of degrees only.

Do not try to sharpen Asian knives of 16-degrees with this sharpener; it will be 15-degrees when done.

Its 100% diamond abrasives and advanced flexible stropping/polishing disks do an effective job sharpening on many types of knives with its advanced spring knife guides for accurate control of the sharpening angle and ease of use.

 

 The dimensions are 8-3/8-inches long x 4-1/4-inches wide x 4-1/4-inches high and weighs 2.87-pounds.

This will not sharpen either ceramic knives or scissors. Knives do not come with the sharpener.

Plug the UL^® listed plug into a 110/120-Volt, 50/60 Hz outlet in North America. It is 125-Watts, 2.1-Amps. It does not use batteries. It is ETL approved for Canada.

You will receive a User’s Manual and a 2-year Limited Warranty. It is designed, engineered, and assembled in the USA.

2. Work Sharp^® Knife & Tool Sharpener Ken Onion Edition, Electric

Work Sharp^® Knife & Tool Sharpener, model number WSKTS-KO-W, will sharpen every knife you own using flexible abrasive belts and precision sharpening guides. It’s an Amazon Choice knife and tool sharpener by Work Sharp^®. This is a serrated knife sharpener used by Chefs.

This tool is Work Sharp^® engineered by Ken Onion, world famous knife maker, who designed it to deliver the highpoint in knife sharpening located in Ashland, Oregon, USA for over 40-years.

This sharpener quickly and easily makes your blades sharper than ever, including scissors, lawnmower blades, and edge tools. It will sharpen common cutting tools including, axes, hatchets, garden shears, shovels, and most tools with a cutting edge.

You determine what you want for your knife edge from 15-, 20-, 25-, or 30-degrees. This sharpener is corded-electric with several flexible belts for a strong and long-lasting razor-sharp convex edge.

Kitchen, filet, and other precision blades use the 40-degree guide.

Heavier duty knives such as hunting knives, outdoor knives, and most pocket knives use the 50-degree guide. Alternatively, you can take the angle guides off to free-hand sharpen most tools with a blade!

 Using flexible abrasive belts, the sharpener is able to sharpen not just straight bladed knives, but also curved knives, tanto blades, Asian Shun knives, filet knives, serrated knives, gut hooks, chisels, and virtually any other shape of knife blade.

 Coarse belts are used to repair damaged blades and sharpening cutting tools.

 Medium belts are used for general knife sharpening.

 Fine belts are used to hone knives, sharpen serrations, and for quick touch-ups on blades that were recently sharpened.

If you have tons of knives to sharpen or hone, this machine will run for 1-hour continuously. It cools itself and will run at high speed for grinding and a slow speed for honing.

The Work Sharp^® Knife & Tool Sharpener will rotate 360-degrees for what you need when sharpening.

Plug the UL^® listed plug into a 110/120-Volt, 50/60 Hz outlet in North America. It is 125-Watts with a 1.5-Amp variable speed motor. It does not use batteries.

You can sharpen ceramic knives with a diamond belt using only the WSKTS Diamond Belt Kit available on Amazon. It fits both the Work Sharp^® Original sharpener and the Ken Onion edition. It is 1/2-inch wide rather than 3/4-inch and will work just fine.

What’s in the Box:

§  Ken Onion Edition Knife & Tool Sharpener

§  P120 Extra-Coarse Belt

§  X65 Coarse Abrasive Belt (2)

§  X22 Medium Abrasive Belt (2)

§  X4 Fine Abrasive Belt (2)

§  6000 Extra-Fine Abrasive Belt

§  Quick-Start Guide

You will receive a User’s Guide, DVD, the accessories listed above, and a 1-year Warranty that covers defects due to workmanship and design, excluding abrasives. The Warranty covers consumer use only, not industrial or commercial use. It’s made in the USA.

Work Sharp^® Knife & Tool Sharpener demo video.

3. Spyderco^® Tri-Angle Sharpmaker^® Knife Sharpener, Manual

 A bit strange looking, this knife sharpener in silver and black is a hi-tech set to give your knives the edge they need for cutting easily. Model number 204MF on Amazon is a very best manual knife sharpener, it will make sharp your tools, blades, and kid toys.

You’ll get 2 sets of ceramic stones made of alumina that will sharpen fishhooks, darts, flat edges, punches, and awls.

Also included are a pair of brown medium-grit stones for aggressive sharpening and a set of fine white stones for professional-grade finishing. A set of brass safety rods protects your hands while sharpening

The component stone rods are triangular and stand vertically in the ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) plastic base snapping into place, is portable lying flat with a cover for portability and storage.

If you want to permanently attach the base in your workshop or kitchen, use the holes drilled into the base for doing so.

Sharpen your blades with dry blades with no water, oil, or lubricants then scrub with a plastic scouring pad and scouring powder, rinse with water, then let air dry.

Turn the base around if you’re left-handed.

Set the stone angles for sharpening at 30-degrees that’s 15-degrees on each side, or 40-degrees that’s 20-degrees on each side for sharpening knives.

Just keep the knife’s blade vertical and draw the edge along each side to sharpen it. For serrated blades, use the rounded edges of the stones and a slightly looser grip to allow the stone to flow into the recesses of each serration.

The dimensions are 9.8- x 9.8- x 1.5-inches weighing about 1-pound.

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You will receive an instructional leaflet and DVD for how to use for inexperience users to achieve professional results easily and quickly. The Spyderco^® Tri-Angle Sharpmaker^® Knife Sharpener is made in the USA.

How to use the Spyderco^® Tri-Angle Sharpmaker^® - easy knife sharpening for beginners’ video.