Wüsthof Long-Term Knife Care Kit @ richardeward.com

Wüsthof Long-Term Knife Care Kit
from Wusthof

Features:

• Set consists of honing tool, cotton towel, blade polishing towelette
• Honing tool has wood handle, ceramic sharpening wheels
• FZ brand towelette polishes stainless steel and other metals
• Soft, 11-1/2-by-18-inch towel wipes blade after polishing

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 1.5 / 5.0

• Get Stoned
  Do not be tricked into buying an "easy" sharpener. They DO NOT work. Spend the same money (or less!) on a good stone set that has various angles (i.e. Lansky, w/ 17, 20, 25, and 30 degree angles, and 3-5 stones: use 20 degrees for your "slicing" and paring knives, and 25 degrees for you chefs). I opted for the stone set (I'm a bit of a purist), but I've heard good remarks about the diamond set, too; the 3 grit set is all you really need: coarse, medium, and fine - get the ultra fine if your sharpening... more info

• Not a true Wusthof! Sharpens into a butter knife!
  I should have listened to the reviews! I just received it today and was very excited. But that ended after it dulled my knife.
  First of all, the instructions sound easy...run your knife across the two ceramic wheels. Several times until your knife it sharp. And wala, your knives are sharp!
  Not the case for me. I have the Wustof Grand Prix II knives. I was still practicing how to use my honing steel and didn't want to continue putting my knives through my torture training. So I thought I could use... more info

• I'm Speechless
  I have an 8" Chef knife. Terrific knife, BTW. I use a steel everytime prior to using my knife, which is almost every day. Every two to three weeks I break out this sharpener and use as directed. It's sharper than I could ever expect, especially after reading these reviews. After two years I've never had to get it professionally sharpened, this shapener has always done the trick. It's as sharp as the day I bought it.

  I'm not sure what happened to the other reviewer's knives, but I would get this gadget and... more info

• If I could give it less than one star, I would....
  My beautiful Grand Prix Wusthofs are the best knives that I've ever owned, and I've persuaded friends to buy them as well, just by letting them borrow one. Even the cheaper stamped Wusthofs that I had for a while are worlds better than any other knife that I had before. So why did Wusthof put their name on this damaging piece of hardware? I used it on one knife, and knew after that that it would never get near one of my knives again. It dulled it so much that I had to take it in to get professionally... more info