HORL 2 Walnut Rolling Knife Sharpener - Kitchen Knife Sharpener for Razor Sharp Edges Made in Germany - Easy Knife Sharpening Kit - Roller with Magnetic Holder with 15 & 20 Degrees

Nothing will ever beat a good whetstone. The problem with whetstones, however, is that they take a lot of practice to be able to effectively use. Maintaining a proper angle is tough to do by feel. This system solves this problem, and it couldn't be easier to use. The unit is simple--it's just two parts: a magnetic angle block and a sharpening roller. Here's how they work. The angle block is cut for two angles,15 degrees and 20 degrees. Each have a silicone-padded magnet which will hold your blade in place without scratching it. The angle you need depends on the intended use of the knife: kitchen knives, fillet knives, or blades meant for fine cutting generally need the 15 degrees side of the block; outdoor knives, pocket knives, and blades which are meant for heavy-duty use generally need the 20 degrees side. Whichever side you use, the practice is the same--attach your blade cutting-side-up, make sure the edge is above the angle block, and you're ready to rock. Now comes the roller assembly. About the size of your average Yahtzee dice cup, each end has a different grit. For really dull knives or knives with an uneven edge, you'll want to use the course grit and spend time with it until your knife has a good consistent edge. No need to apply much pressure--just roll the sharpener along the edge and let the grinding pad do its thing. Once that's done, spin the sharpening roller around and polish your new edge. If your blade is only beveled on one side, that's the side you want to present to the roller's grinders. If the blade is beveled on both sides, you'll want to reverse the blade on your angle block and do them both. You're going to wind up with a very sharp knife. This unit has a very high-quality build. The rollers are smooth, and the grinding pads are consistent. Unlike using a grinding wheel, you're not going to generate enough heat to destroy the temper on your blade: your edge will hold as long as the quality of your blades will allow. The grinders are also replaceable, meaning there's no reason you won't get decades of good use out of this. Sure, it's a bit pricey--but this is an instance where you really do get what you pay for. Highly recommended!

Now THIS is truly an innovative knife sharpener. It's almost unbelievable how easy it is to get a truly sharp edge on your kitchen knives. The 'holder' block has an amazingly strong grip on the blade and offers a 20- and 15-degree angle to service your everyday knives and your finer work knives. Out of the box I tried that business of using a marker on the blade edges. On the straight edges the marker was gone in about 5 minutes. It took a little longer and some bit of learning curve before I got the knife tips really sharp. When I was finished with the diamond side I couldn't believe the metal dust. The drum rolled so easily I'd really no idea so much metal was being removed. The stainless side did just an OK job of honing and polishing the edge. It worked, bit I wasn't all that impressed. But when I used my ceramic hone, the knife edge was INCREDIBLY sharp. So yeah, this is a great sharpener, but hang on to your ceramic hone.

Super easy to use and does sharpen knives to hair-splitting sharpness. I would strongly recommend this product for its ease of use, especially compared to something like a whetstone. However, this product falls a bit short when it comes to knives with beveled handles, as the grind surface will knock against and potentially scratch the beveled section. Also, for being a chunk of wood with 2 grind surfaces on each end, the HORL is surprisingly expensive. But when it works, it works great, and feels high quality in the hand.

I bought this for my father for Father's Day and he loves it. He likes to sharpen his knives pretty often on this rectangular stone so he has to angle the knife manually which can make a big difference on how well the knife is sharpened or not. However, he has a thing for Chinese made products. He does not like buying them if he help it. So when I saw that this was made in Germany, I jumped on it and bought it. It was pretty pricey but the reviews said this was a high quality product and I noticed that anything made in Germany usually is so I didn't hesitate. He was so happy with it and said now he can sharpen knives much faster and it does all the work for him. The angles are all preset for him so he doesn't have to manually guess the angle and hope its correct. I'm not really into sharpening knives but it seemed like there were several options on how you can go about sharpening the knife depending on what kind of knife you are sharpening. Anyway, as long as he loves it that's all that mattered to me. I highly recommend this item if you want a good quality knife sharpener. It seems like this product will hold up for a very long time because of the quality. Hope this review helps you out and thanks for reading!!!

FABULOUS!! easy to use and now my knives are back to being new sharp. I am not a knife sharpener kind of person, but this is so easy and it WORKS!!

Excellent, j'ai même réussi à rattraper des lames abimées par d'autres aiguiseurs de qualité moyenne 👍

Easy to use - however, would have preferred the sharpening edge to be longer to better support long knives.

I got this brilliantly simple sharpening set a few weeks ago, and have used it to sharpen two Japanese knives (15-degree edge) and a bunch of western knives (20-degree edge). It took just a couple of minutes per blade (a bit longer for good carbon steel, a bit less for softer stainless steel). Sharpness was excellent (*). I amused myself by cutting slices of ripe tomato that were so transparently thin they had only one side... But seriously... excellent results from such a deceptively simple and easy-to-use tool. One of my knives had a blade wider than the diameter of the roller, but that was easily solved by putting the magnet block and blade on a counter-top in the usual orientation, but having the roller raised on a cutting board (second photo... if Amazon keeps them in the order I attached them). (* I like this product enough that I might buy the additional finer-grit end-caps to achieve supernatural sharpness. I'll never reach the levels of my brother, who has an array of sharpening tools and blocks and grits and honers and strops and... and... and is so fanatical about sharpening that he can produce an edge that will slice a hard turnip from across the room just by waving his knife threateningly. But for us ordinary people, you can put away any motorized or gimmicky sharpeners you've bought (or received as gifts) and just use the Horl 2.) DO NOT reward rip-off companies - mostly Chinese, it seems - by purchasing a knockoff. Reward the Germans; penalize the makers of cheap knock-offs. Yes, some of your money will go to Amazon, unless you live in a European country where Horl will sell and ship directly, but it's the price we pay for living in North America or other parts of the globe. Shipping and handling were prompt, and the sharpening set arrived in perfect condition. Just remember that when you pay Horl for the legitimate product, - you are paying for the original idea, the superior German engineering and development, highest-quality components and workmanship, and a superior reputation of a company that uses the founder's family name and stands by the quality of their product. When you buy a knock-off version from some anonymous company whose "name" is just some made-up jumble of letters, using sweat-shop labor (breaking the laws of China, both in the realm of intellectual property rights and in the realm of human rights and workers' rights) by paying off officials), and building with the cheapest materials that should barely hold together until you get it home... maybe. And if you and thousands of others report that the 'diamond' grit of a knock-off sharpener wore off in two weeks, or the roller mechanism got wobbly after two sharpenings, they don't care. The anonymous knock-off company will just stand up another front seller with another jumble-of-letters name, and keep on selling shoddy crap that is stealing money, stealing livelihood from the dedicated designers/makers/entrepreneurs who make and sell the real Horl 2 sharpening kit. I absolutely recommend the true Horl 2 (or the Horl Pro, just because of who makes it...) to anybody who has knives they want to to sharpen to a superior level and maintain that way with little effort and no knowledge needed. I'm going to buy some more as gifts for my other siblings, except perhaps Mr. Fanatic Sharpener brother who enjoys his current sharpening hobby. The rest of us just want really functional knives with least effort, and Horl provides that.

Great Item Very Happy 😊

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