Great buy. It does a great job of cleaning up a bevel and giving it a keen edge. Depending on the condition of the blade it may take quite a few passes across the coarse stones to take out unevenness left by a poor job using another sharpening method. Once done, however, sharpening is a simple matter of pulling the blade across the fine stones until you achieve the edge you need. Everything about it makes it easy to use. It is a straight forward design that doesn’t require a user to do any guess work,…

a must for the kitchen if you care about your knives in the kitchen this is the indispensible tool . put it in the drawer and use it to keep your cutlery sharp. good sharp edges make all the prep work go so much faster and easier than fighting a dull blade. the ceramic side of this well made tool keeps a nice sharp edge on my knives . a few pull throughs after cleaning and drying the knives and they are ready to go for the next use. you really don’t appreciate how much better a sharp knife is to work with until…