Reviews Chef's Choice 130 Professional Knife-Sharpening Station, Platinum

Read the Chef's Choice 130 Professional Knife-Sharpening directions carefully. Practice. Practice some more. Do your relatives knives, fishermen, hunters, limitless! My cheap Santoku's and Chef's knives are very sharp now. With this, you can go to thrift stores and score cheap knives and save $$$.

I purchased this Chef's Choice 130 sharpener about a month ago and so far I am very satisfied. If you read the manual, it is very easy to use. I was at first worried about taking too much metal off of my kinves. As long as you don't over use the first stage that should not be a problem.  Find a good knife and restore it. Should last a lifetime. Cartridge replacement stones are available for this and certain other models.

• Electric knife sharpener with 100-percent diamond abrasives
• Sharpens, steels, and strops most brands and types of knives
• Super-hardened miniature steel; flexible stropping disk
• Angle-guides for foolproof sharpening; on/off switch; stabilizing feet
• Measures 10 by 10 by 4 inches; 3-year limited warranty

I can sharpen my plane and chisel blades with a stone to a point you can shave with them. Now all my steak knives and knives in the wood block by the stove are sharp as razors! This is so easy to use and my knives have never been so sharp. Worth every cent.

I had resisted buying an electric sharpener for years, based on memories of my mother's old one and the many scalloped blades I remember in her kitchen drawers. Even with hand sharpening on a stone, though, my knives wouldn't hold an edge for long.

Note that there are three sections to this Chef's Choice 130 Professional Knife sharpener:

1. Course powered sharpener
2.  Non-powered steel
3. Fine-grain powered sharpener

All three sections have blade guides that hold the blade at just the right angle. Section 2 is not powered at all: it's just a steel, but it steels the blade at just the right angle. To sharpen a knife, generally you are suppose to use section 1 followed by 2, which results in a very well steeled blade with a little "bite" which is most suitable for cutting course food, OR you are suppose to use section 1 followed by 3, which results in a hair-shaving sharp blade suitable for cutting ripe tomatoes.

You can also resharpen a knife using just section 3, which is effortless and takes just a few seconds. I have a wide range of quality in my knives and this system seems to work well on all of them.  I won't spend hours using an oil stone to sharpen knives any more. Also at 45 years old I don't see as well as I once did and can't hold a consistent angle using the stone. This Chef's Choice 130 Knife-Sharpening system gives you a consistent sharpening angle.

This Chef's Choice 130 Professional Knife-Sharpening Station, Platinum product earned 359 customer reviews and 90% are satisfied (as 11/12/2013).