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Brand: W�sthof
Category: Kitchen

List Price: ~~$50.00~~
Buy New: $49.95
You Save: $0.05

Avg. Customer Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars

7 reviews
Sales Rank: 133332

Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 3.8 x 2.3

MPN: 2901
Model: 2901
EAN: 4002293290102
ASIN: B00005OAS0

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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
•	Sharpening guide, knife-buyer's guide included

Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com Review
Maintaining the blade edges of world-class W�sthof knives protects the lifetime investment these kitchen instruments represent and keeps them at their most useful. This kit provides essential tools for proper care. Central to the kit is a honing tool consisting of a wood handle and ceramic wheels. Holding the tool with the left hand and drawing a knife several times between the wheels with the right hand hones the blade edge, which is the final step in a professional sharpening process. (A sharpening steel only realigns an edge, which is also essential to knife care.) Using the honing tool prolongs the period between full sharpenings. Accompanying the honing tool is a FZ brand towelette for polishing a stainless-steel knife blade (the towelette polishes other metals, also), and a soft, cotton hand towel (11-1/2 by 18 inches) for wiping the blade after polishing. A sharpening guide and a knife-buyer's guide are also included. --Fred Brack

Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...

1 out of 5 stars

Get Stoned December 7, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

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 razors and such.

With proper care, and light steel use (it's the re-aligning tool, not the sharpening device - be gentle), you'll probably only need to touch-up your edge once every year or two, depending on the work load you put on your knife. But, if you do seriously muck the edge up, you'll have a system that can repair your knife to "good as new" condition.

My chef fell onto the tile floor, point first, and I had a wonderfully sharpened instrument 30 minutes later. The normal touch-up takes less than 5 minutes per blade.

And, at thirty dollars to have 5 knives professionally sharpened, you'll be ahead of the game after the first use!

Hint: use a 5X+ magnifying glass/loupe to inspect your edge - by carefully rolling the knife to catch a bright light source, you'll be able to see shiny spots where the edge still needs to be sharpened. You can also take a look at your edge before using the steel, and see how bad you roll the edge while working with it, then see how it becomes magically aligned after the use of the steel. And, see chips and voids in your lower quality steel knives - I admit I have a couple, myself.

In short: get stoned, not taken.

1 out of 5 stars

Not a true Wusthof! Sharpens into a butter knife! April 9, 2005
8 out of 8 found this review helpful

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 this ceramic wheel until I got the hand of the honing steel. I gripped the piece as told, and ran it through with very gentle pressure. Pulling my knife through it was heartbreaking! You could hear the knife resisiting the pull. You'll hear a "screeching" sound and NO the ceramic wheels do not move when you are pulling it. The knife just runs on top of where the two wheels connect and you pull. Yes, your knife might scuddle and jump as you pull, it is resisting the sharpener. NO matter how light you pull through!! I never dishwash my knives or let them airdry so you can imagine my dismay. I just thought that is normal. So I stopped running my chef's knife through this and instead, tried my smaller and easily replaceable paring knife. Same thing! Upon closer inspection, you could see curved scratches along the side of the blade! And little knicks along the blade. It made my paring knife dull, after only 3 runs! Very disappointed. The wheels even look like they are about to fall of the piece! The two wheel screws are so loose that with enough pressure for your knife, I am convince it would eventually fall off. Do not buy this! You might as well just run your knife along your steel kitchen sink! ... You'll probably get a sharper edge than this junk! Buy this only if you are stubborn (like I was), and ignored all the reviews and if you have want to junk your good Wusthofs for the super dull supermarket knives. Then go ahead, have fun destroying your knives! Wusthof should be ashamed of themselves to put their quality known name on this piece of JUNK! Now I have to send my knives to Wusthof for sharpening! ARG!

4 out of 5 stars

I'm Speechless March 8, 2004
3 out of 7 found this review helpful

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 I trust my knives with it.

1 out of 5 stars If I could give it less than one star, I would.... April 30, 2003
45 out of 46 found this review helpful

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 sharpened. Don't purchase this set! You will regret it!

1 out of 5 stars wusthof long term knife care kit April 27, 2002
32 out of 94 found this review helpful

Ive owned my wusthof knife set for about eight years nows, still
works just fine for me,so I decided to add the wusthof long term knife care kit,but after reading the reviews on this set,Im sending it back.Ive always been happy with shopping amazon,and will keep shopping with amazon.It helps to read reviews from others.I did add the 7-inch hollow edge santoku knife,and a few others to complete my set.really happy with that for sure.
Thanks
rhonda

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