May 23, 2011 | Posted by These fine knives feature a high cargon steel blade embedded in a comfortable figured maple handle. Useful for instrument making and general shop work. Please note that these knives come with a basic factory ground edge and will need to be ground, …
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April 12, 2011 | Posted by Wusthof Precision Edge Diamond electric knife sharpener is precision built to provide your knife the amount of sharpness you need. It is made possible by the interlocking diamond abrasive wheels. Made in America by Norton (which have been distinguished for their leadership in sharpening devices) these wheels spin without difficulty on their axles. To provide the knife a fine edge, both sides of the blade is honed simultaneously. This sharpener has a coarse setting for once the cutting edge is wrecked in some way and another setting to provide the knife a razor edge. This device will help keep your sharp tools be in prime condition.
. Interlocking diamond wheels (sharpen either side of the knife at once). Stainless steel housing. 2 stages for coarse and fine grinding. Non-slip rubber feet (for protection). Magnetic clean out slot under machine (for easy cleaning). Product measures: 10 x 5 x 5 in.. Weighing 6.6 pounds. Housing part completely in elegant stainless-steel. Easy to clean and keep. Interlocking diamond abrasive wheels high in quality, produced in US. Warranty of 3 years
Wusthof Precision Edge Diamond Review
Reviewers always thought that using a high-priced knife don’t imply you also have to make use of an expensive sharpener. They suggested that a lot of cheaper sharpeners gave you the same results you get from a machine you’ve paid big bucks for. They said the cheaper Wusthof Precision Edge Diamond Electric Sharpener was nearly as good, if not better, than its more expensive competitors.
For regular users, this product is a lot easier and faster to utilize with the help of the interlocking diamond abrasive wheels. It’s capable of giving uniform edge as the product sharpens both of the sides concurrently.
Users appreciate the 2 sharpening stages of the knife sharpener since you can grind a dull knife finely and use the fine rollers and have a razor like finish afterwards. For other people, the hollow ground edge which is made by such knife sharpener is greater than that of the straight one.
A customer was worried at first knowing there was no guidebook that can help her maintain the knife straight in line still, after a while, she discovered it was super easy and simple to do.
Around 10% of the people who looked at this one thought that it was a little costly for what it did but whatever their individual thoughts were 85-90% of the reviewers that looked at the Wusthof Precision Edge Diamond electric knife sharpener were of the opinion that this one does more than required and were quite happy to recommend it to anyone.
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March 12, 2011 | Posted by Average Reviews:
(More customer reviews)NIcely balanced and the perfect size, very good for slicing. I love the round nose as it makes it easier to handle. Unlike serrated blades the smooth, hollow-ground edge doesn’t leave any ragged edges. I’ve mostly been slicing flank steaks with it. I can’t wait to try it on Thanksgiving!
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July 13, 2010 | Posted by We were recently given the following items to review.
Counter Safe Deluxe Knife™ & Scissors Sharpener – $17.99
Edgeware’s Counter Safe™ Deluxe Knife and Scissors Sharpener is specifically designed to sharpen the finest cutlery, as well as right or left-handed scissors. This unit has an exclusive flip down counter guard to protect tables and countertops from damage during sharpening. Plus, it is the first manual sharpener to offer Coarse and Fine sharpening slots for both knives and scissors.
The knife sharpener features carbide blades for quick edge setting and triangular shaped ceramic stones for final edge honing. Because of the ceramic stones special shape, they can be used on both straight or serrated blades. The carbide blades and ceramic stones use pre-set sharpening angles to get the proper sharpening angle and guaranteed results every time you sharpen your knife.
The scissors sharpener uses a patented “FLOATING” ceramic rod that adjusts to fit the precise bevel of the blades every time.
Diamond Edge Gourmet™ Electric and Manual Knife and Scissors Sharpener – $124.99
The Diamond Edge Gourmet™ Electric and Manual Knife and Scissors Sharpener was the first electric sharpener of its kind to offer the flexibility of both electric and manual sharpening together in one household product. This product can easily sharpen extremely dull blades, maintain razor sharp edges on both straight and serrated edges, and sharpen common household scissors.
The unit’s unique features include: interlocking diamond abrasive wheels for fast and precise sharpening of both sides of your blade at the same time, and a manual finishing slot for polishing a freshly ground edge or for sharpening serrated blades. The unit assures equal treatment of both sides of the knife blade and incorporates a retractable scissors sharpener. Edgeware’s Diamond Edge Gourmet™ Electric/Manual Knife and Scissors Sharpener guarantees factory edge results every time no matter your blade type or edge condition.
About Edgeware
Long established as a leading supplier of knife sharpening tools, US manufacturer Smith’s® introduces the new Edgeware™ branded kitchen tools collection.
The Edgeware™ brand offers consumers high performance manual and electric knife sharpeners and beginning in 2010, high-end food preparation kitchen tools. Synonymous with exceptional value, Edgeware™ was created for home cooks and cooking enthusiast looking for superior products with innovative designs offered at the best value possible.
“We believe the new Edgeware™ name fully communicates the core strength of the products we offer to consumers, and are excited to continue offering our customers exceptional products, value and services under this new brand,” says Dan Glidden, CEO of Smith’s.
Widely regarded as a world leader for sharpening tools since 1886, Smith’s® lays claim to the design and manufacture of the broadest line of knife and scissors sharpeners currently available. The company’s product offering includes both manual and electrical sharpeners ranging from the very simple to the sophisticated. It incorporates a wide variety of abrasive materials including diamond, carbide, ceramic, bonded synthetic abrasives and natural Arkansas stones.
Nestled in the hills outside Hot Springs, Arkansas, Smith’s®, was founded in 1886 by company president, Richard Smith’s, great-grandfather, James Archer Smith. Smith’s product offering now includes more than 200 products and they have built a reputation as the single-source supplier of knife sharpeners that meet all sharpening needs in all the major sharpening categories: Arkansas Stones, Carbides, Ceramics, Diamonds, and Precision Sharpening Systems.
From their humble beginnings as an Arkansas stone company to becoming one of the world’s largest producers of handheld and electric knife and tool sharpening products for the Housewares, Sporting Goods and Hardware markets, Smith’s® continues to bring innovation to the marketplace while providing quality products and unprecedented service.
Recently we were fortunate enough to review and compare two products by Edgeware, their Diamond Edge Gourmet Electric Knife & Scissor Sharpener and their Counter Safe Deluxe Knife & Scissor Sharpener. To start off the review I’ll say this: our kitchen knives were in dire need of a new edge and honing. We’ve had them for about 7 years and in that time they’ve been put through the gamut. Slicing tomatoes ended up being a big mess of squishiness, attempting to trim the fat off a cut of meat was a chore, and let’s just say that it was easier to eat a steak caveman style than to cut it up in nice bite sized pieces. I was tempted to grab my Arkansas stone out of the tool box and see what I could do, but I have no delusions about my blade sharpening abilities. Sure, I can put an edge on an axe or a lawnmower blade, but I do more butchering than sharpening, and the edge doesn’t last very long. And don’t even get me started on how I fail miserably while trying to hone and get a fin on my old straight razor! Needless to say, I was more than excited at this opportunity.
The Diamond Edge Gourmet™ Electric and Manual Knife and Scissors Sharpener grabbed my attention the moment I pulled it out of the box. The brushed metal on black color scheme was a perfect match for our kitchen decor, the shape and footprint of it doesn’t make it an eyesore to leave sitting on the kitchen counter, and the all around aesthetics of it are pleasing. I couldn’t wait to test it out, so I set aside the typical “man” way of doing things and read the instructions for a change. It took all of about 30 seconds to go through the directions, making the Diamond Edge Gourmet Electric Knife & Scissor Sharpener an easy to operate machine, as can be seen in the video provided. A few swipes of the blade through the diamond cutting wheel and a couple of runs across the honing stone put a very nice edge to the steak knife. You’ll see in the video how easy it was, and how well the knife went from dull and worn out to slicing through a plum with ease.
After the ease of getting results from the Diamond Edge Gourmet™ Electric and Manual Knife and Scissors Sharpener, I didn’t think that the the Counter Safe™ Deluxe Knife and Scissors Sharpener would impress me. I was wrong. I figured it would be too much trouble compared to what I just went through in order to get a good sharp edge on a blade, seeing as how it is completely manual. So I folded down the counter guard, grabbed a dull serrated steak knife, and ran the blade across the ceramic sharpening stone… impressive. The serration wasn’t damaged at all, and the blade had a nicely honed edge. You can see the demonstration towards the end of the video. I wasn’t done yet though, so I grabbed the kitchen shears and gave them a run through the specially designed scissor sharpening openings. Once again, I was impressed.
I had a lot of knives to go through so I ended up using the Diamond Edge Gourmet™ Electric and Manual Knife and Scissors Sharpener to add new life to all of my steak knives, butcher knives, scissors, camping knife, pocket knife, and whatever else I found that needed to be sharpened. I have no doubts that the Counter Safe™ Deluxe Knife and Scissors Sharpener would have done just as good of a job (except maybe on my old and worn out Italian stiletto, which was as dull as a maple twig), at the expense of a little extra time. But now that all the knives we have are razor sharp, I can use the Counter Safe model to keep them that way.
To give a comparative summary of the two products, the Diamond Edge Gourmet™ Electric and Manual Knife and Scissors Sharpener is just plain awesome, aesthetically pleasing, fast, easy, fool proof, and is great for someone like me who had 3 score of different blades that were in dire need of sharpening. The Counter Safe™ Deluxe Knife and Scissors Sharpener did just as good of a job sharpening knives. However, it does take a bit more work. I have no doubts about either of these two knife sharpeners fulfilling the needs of anyone for home use. But the Diamond Edge model would work for restaurants, or even adding a great edge to a forged knife blank.
About the video. I’m no Billy Mays or Chef Tony. I can’t slice a tomato into 20 thin slices in 3 seconds flat. And I can’t juggle an entire selection of Ginsu knives while screaming into a TV camera. But I did my best to demonstrate how the products work and the results gained without any camera tricks. I even tossed in the tried and true paper slicing test (Rambo would be proud). Yes, the video is boring, but it gets the point across.
Disclosure: I would like to thank Megan from Edgeware Products for providing me with the two sharpeners for the purpose of this review. All opinions are that of my own.
The Giveaway
Megan has graciously offered to give one of Shawn Ann’s World readers their very own Counter Safe™ Deluxe Knife and Scissors Sharpener.
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This Giveaway will end on Monday, July 12, 2010 at 11:59 PM EST.
The Winner will be chosen by Random.org. I will post the winner here on Shawn Ann’s World, as well as by email. The winner will then have 48 hours to claim their prize.
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May 14, 2010 | Posted by In the never-ending search for quality and value, one is constantly balancing the promise of quality and care that accompanies established premium brands with the economy, but unknown quality, of new and less-entrenched products. Often consumers gamble on budget product, only later realizing that they really got just as much as, if not less than they paid for. In the end, they either continue to replace low-quality products with more low-quality products, or, they finally purchase the higher-priced brands they were trying to avoid. Fortunately, Saber knives are a rare exception to this oft-lamented dilemma, offering a significant amount of quality at a very attractive value.
Saber’s stated goal is to create quality German-style kitchen cutlery that can rival the best offerings of established brands like Wusthof or Henckels’ Twin logo series, but without the premium price tag. Initial reviews of the Saber Working Chef’s set indicate that in many respects, they have achieved this goal. The Working Chef’s set contains a total of 10 knives plus a honing steel, all securely contained in an attractive, heavy-duty professional-style knife bag. The bag uses rigid polymer sheaths to hold the knives snugly in place, and although not indestructible, they should be much more resistant to cuts and tears than the fabric and Velcro straps one often finds in pro knife bags.
The knives have a very similar weight and look to the Wusthof Classic or Henckels Pro-S, with the exception that every knife has a hollow-ground edge. Fully-forged blades of premium German steel and full-tang, triple-riveted polypropylene handles gave the knives a comforting, sturdy substantiality in the hand. Most of the knives are very well-balanced at or near the bolster, even the longer and heavier knives like the 10” chef’s knife. Although the handles are a little bit boxier and the bolsters not as smoothly tapered to the blade as on the Wusthof Classic, they presented no discomfort at all during use. The only thing that detracts from the overall presentation is the printed slogan on each blade: “Not Just Sharp; Chef Sharp!”. Saber should remove that logo if they want to their knives to have the gravitas of their more established German competitors.
Right out of the box, the knives displayed an impressive edge, cutting all but the toughest and most fibrous foods easily and cleanly. Finely dicing a whole onion proved to be a nearly tearless experience using the 8” chef’s knife, indicating a smooth and well-polished edge. The bread knife made quick work of slicing a large, crusty loaf of Italian bread, producing few crumbs in the process, and the slippery but sinewy texture of chicken thighs melted away before the edge of the boning knife. Chefs and serious cooks both professional and amateur will appreciate the inclusion of a 10” chef’s knife, which is especially efficient for chopping or mincing large items like squash or large piles of vegetables or herbs, and a 10” ham slicer, perfect for carving and serving roasted meats. The remaining knives, a paring, a 4” and 6” utility, and 7” santoku, all have the same sharpness and sturdy construction. My only quibble is that with the 10” ham slicer, the 8” carving knife seems extraneous. Perhaps in its place, a working chef might have more use for a meat cleaver?
Saber knives are made in China, a decision calculated to reduce the price point of the knives. But they appear not to scrimp on quality when it comes to actual materials and processes. The knives are made of high-quality, high-carbon German steel, and are fully forged and tempered to a demonstrably similar level of performance as other premium German brands. The 8” chef, the workhorse of the set, was used for heavy chopping and mincing for several days in a row, after which the edge was still sharp and smooth enough to shave hair off this reviewer’s forearm. In a more punishing test, the 7” santoku was abused with several minutes of vigorous chopping and slicing on steel and tile countertops (horrible treatment for any knife), and was still able to chiffonade basil leaves with only barely noticeable bruising of the herbs. Subsequently, a few passes on the honing steel were sufficient to restore the edge. Finally, the santoku was purposely blunted well past the point of usability (by grinding the edge head-on into a whetstone). Within 10 minutes of sharpening on the stone, the knife edge was once again shaving- sharp. Lastly, the long-suffering santoku was soaked overnight in a basin of soapy water to replicate the indignity of being left in the sink with the dirty dishes, then it was allowed to air-dry in the dishdrain. No ill effects were seen in the handle, but one minuscule spot of oxidization appeared on the blade. Take note: Like all good cutlery, these knives should be hand washed ONLY and never allowed to soak or air-dry.
Although nothing reveals the true quality of a knife like the test of time, Saber’s Working Chef set has so far performed remarkably, promising a high enough level of performance that, at this price, they could give the Germans a run for their money. I’ll be eager to see what happens.
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