Smith Abrasives 10-Second Knife and Scissors Sharpener
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Smith Abrasives 10-Second Knife and Scissors Sharpener
Customer Review: Knife sharpner
Summary: 5 Stars
Best knife sharpner I have ever seen or used. So easy and quick to use.Very good price as well. I have given one to every one in my family.Customer Review: Knives sharper, but underwhelmingly so
Summary: 3 Stars
Having lost my old sharpener in a house move, I sought this as a replacement. The knives get sharper, but are not left as sharp as they would have been with my old sharpener. The scissor sharpener is interesting, and I did notice my scissors were left sharper, but I would rather have sharper knives instead of extra features. It's fair for the price, but considering the high reviews I was expecting something better.Customer Review: One Of My Best Buys
Summary: 5 Stars
These things are easy to use and do a really good job. I've had one for years and it works as good now as it did when I bought it. I bought one for each of my family members as a stocking stuffer. They all have had great success with this item.Customer Review: Saves time but not metal
Summary: 4 Stars
I haven't had much success or ambition when it comes to sharpening knives on stones or sandpaper. I've read numerous articles and watched numerous videos on how to sharpen knives, and I've made a few attempts, but I still haven't got the knack. I've even heard conflicting advice. One master chef says it's easy to sharpen your own knives on a stone, and another says that chefs send their cutlery to a professional for sharpening.
I often find myself fresh out of time and patience for all this fuss, and so I have resorted to various cheap gizmos to do the work for me. This one actually works. As you run it over your knife blade, you can feel the resistance as it hogs off steel and forms a new edge. When the resistance is gone, typically after 5-10 light strokes, that's your signal that the carbide V has done all the shaping it's going to do for now. There is no guesswork.
It puts a nice utility edge on a blade. How sharp and durable that edge may be depends on several things, such as the blade's hardness and edge geometry. It's nowhere near glassy smooth, but that's OK, because the nearly invisible snaggletoothed "micro-serrations" help the knife bite into most materials.
The downside is that it does hog off material. It'll eventually wear out any knife you use and sharpen constantly. If you do happen to be a chef, for example, using this thing means that your favorite knife is not going to last for years. But most chefs probably figure out how to keep their knives in good shape fairly early in their careers. And I'm not a chef. Even my favorite knives get relatively light use, and one of those is an $8 Old Hickory butcher knife. So I'm not too worried about the loss of steel.
I do have knives that I like too much to run through this thing. Anything with a convex grind seems particularly ill-suited to it, although I could be wrong about that. Still, it's great for whacking a quick edge onto the average knife, and I use it more than any other of my gizmos.
AccuSharp has a similar device that gets high praise, but it's harder to find. In fact, I bought one and promptly lost it and have just not got back to the one place I know that carries it. In any case, the carbide V sharpener concept definitely has its uses.
Customer Review: Smith Abrasives 10-Second Knife and Scissors Sharpener
Summary: 5 Stars
I have owned this sharpener for over a year. I tried to find one for our camper and couldn't locate it anywhere. I was browsing on the kitchen site and found the identical item. This made my day and I was so pleased at finding it, I ordered 4 more. I have bought 3 or 4 different types of knife sharpeners and did not like the results from them. This is the best I have ever used and it only takes two or three swipes to get a very sharp blade.
Just make sure after using the sharpener, to wash or wipe the knife blade as there is a bit of metal residue left on the blade. The shipping has been a little slow on this item, which is unusual but I do have the original sharpener so there is no urgency to get my order.
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