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Bear Grylls, British SAS veteran and outdoor survival show star, collaborated with Gerber to produce this interesting and very capable survival knife and kit. Unlike some survival knife combos which try to provide too much and wind up with little that works, everything here is functional. You get just the ...

Designed for the chef who doesn't use a whetstone, the McGowan Diamondstone Electric Knife Sharpener works well enough that you shouldn't run your knives through it for that daily touch-up. Use a honing steel for the everyday maintenance, because if you like this fast cutting diamond-grit machine too much, you'll soon ...

The half-inch-wide oval cross-section honing rod of the collapsible Sportsman Ultra Light Diamond Sharpening Steel will restore the cutting edges of small knives and maintain the edges of larger ones. This tool is more appropriate to the kitchen than the deep woods -- you may want to carry a flat ...

One of the trickiest tools to sharpen correctly at home is a pair of scissors. It always looks like an easy thing to do, but unless the edges of the blades meet at exactly the right angle, you might as well just buy a new pair. The Chef's Choice 500 ...

Tool Logic's SLP2 Multifunction Folding Knife makes the multi-tool approach to survival knives actually work. Similar in appearance to the Swedish Light-My-Fire knife, this version from Tool Logic offers much more than a magnesium firestarter and a cheap knife.

The SLP2's three-inch blade of 420J2 high carbon ...

Few tools in the kitchen are handier than a sharpening steel -- except perhaps a diamond hone. The Chef's Choice 12-inch Diamond Hone Knife Sharpener is an example of what happens when you combine the cutting ability of fine industrial diamonds with the traditional chef's honing steel. The result is ...

DMT's W4F Diamond Pocket Whetstone has the fine grit matrix you most often need when touching up a blade edge at work or far from home. This 4 by 7/8 by 3/16-inch sharpening stone weighs only a little more than three ounces, including the neat stitched leather sheath. Ultralight travelers ...

DMT's Coarse Grit Diamond Whetstone quickly restores accurate bevels to badly worn blades of tools and knives as well as materials no ordinary whetstone will touch. The diamond impregnated plastic body of the stone is faced with a perforated layer of nickel-coated steel embedded with diamond grit. The combination ...

The Chef's Choice 450 two-stage diamond wheel knife sharpener allows even those chefs who don't like to sharpen knives to work with sharp blades. The bevel it produces and the quality of the cutting edge won't match professional standards, but many good cooks don't care so much about the steel ...

The Ultimate Edge Model 10NUF Oval Ultra Fine honing steel finishes edges of blades with a high polish. If you already keep your knives in good shape, this will bring the edge a degree higher in quality. Don't expect to restore a drawer full of dull knives with the ...

Adding fine abrasive action to the resetting function of the steel hone, the Ultimate Edge Model 10W Gourmet 10-inch Oval Diamond sharpening steel outperforms the traditional sharpening steel. The Ultimate Edge 10W won't completely take the place of flat whetstones -- still necessary for reworking badly worn or damaged blades ...

Where this sharpening system will really come in handy is in reworking badly worn and damaged blades. Using the Lansky system, it's possible to hone knife bevels accurately to one of four angles ranging from 17 degrees to 30 degrees. If you don't have the knack of regrinding with flat ...

The Chef's Choice Commercial Model 2000 Diamond Hone Knife Sharpener evens the playing field when it comes to knife sharpening. You meet all sorts of people in restaurant kitchens -- people with skill and talent, and people who are just there for the pay check. Professional quality commercial kitchen equipment evens out ...

Made from a solid rod of chrome vanadium stainless steel and embedded with a matrix of fine industrial diamonds, this unusual honing steel was developed for the Global knives manufactured by Yoshikin of Japan. Global recommends sharpening with their series of ceramic powder stones, an improvement over the Japanese ...

For most chefs, the sharpening steel is the preferred method of resetting and honing the edges of good kitchen cutlery. Ordinary honing steels do little more than reform the edge of dulled blades. If damage goes beyond slight dulling to rounding and blunting, reworking with a stone might be the only ...

The 100W Diamond Hone Knife Sharpener from Chef's Choice reshapes edges of worn and dulled kitchen and sporting knives in a three stage process. The first and coarsest set of diamond impregnated honing wheels puts a preset bevel on the blade edge. Second and third stages with progressively finer ...

Applying industrial diamond abrasive technology to the already efficient honing steel most chefs know and use, the Ultimate Edge Model 12W Professional Diamond Hone polishes and resets the edges of high carbon steel blades. Though it won't do the job of a flat grindstone, the hone does put off that inevitable ...

With coarse and fine honing plates, a secure hand grip, and several aids to accuracy, the Chef's Choice Multi-Edge Diamond Hone Knife Sharpener does a good job of restoring the edges of most kitchen knives. The system isn't foolproof and shouldn't be expected to match the work of a sharpening stone. For ...

With only two stages of blade sharpening, the Chef's Choice 310 Diamond Hone could be overmatched by genuinely worn knives. If your knives are still in reasonably good shape, the two high-speed honing disc systems in the 310 should do an excellent job of restoring an edge. Major repairs could ...

With the advent of affordable industrial diamond abrasives, sharpening systems like this Chef's Choice 464 Pronto have actually begun to work properly. Older versions of this patented idea used hardened steel wheels or ceramic rods and yielded uncertain results, but the Pronto produces consistent results with a minimum of practice.

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Unlike many short lived home sharpening systems, this professional diamond wheel electric sharpener from Wusthof of Solingen, Germany, carries a lifetime warranty. With most home appliance warranties falling between ninety days and two years, that's an indication of something special.

Two sharpening slots in this brushed stainless steel grinder house coarse and ...

Diamond Machining Technology produces this space age whetstone, in the same dimensions we've always used but with materials and efficiency far beyond what we've grown to expect from ordinary carburundum. This solid nickel sheet, with a surface layer of fine diamond grit alternating with plastic discs that speed sharpening by ...

Well, the folks at Portland, Oregon, based Leatherman have done it again. This time with a 3-in-1 fixed blade knife, bone saw, and gut hook - perfect for field dressing in a really ingenious design.

How you ask? When this is a knife, the bone saw and gut hook components ...

It can be tricky to keep up with all the different Chef's Choice electric sharpeners. Read our reviews of the various choices and your head might start to spin.

The long and short of it is this... If you've got exclusively Asian knives, the 316 is probably for you. If ...

If you're a junkie for sharp edges, as I am, you've probably tried nearly every tool or technique chasing the perfect edge.

The Lansky is one of the few products I've used which has withstood the test of time. Using a design which features a simple fixture into which the knife is clamped ...

The Chef's Choice lineup of electric sharpeners can be a bit tricky to navigate. We've written about the Chef's Choice M120 and the M130 previously, so now we'll tackle the 110.

First, let's get something out of the way... Chef's Choice stands out among electric sharpener manufacturers by making high-quality ...

How to sharpen a knife? Let me count the ways...

Water stones, oil stones, electric sharpeners, professional re-sharpening, belt sanders and the back of a can opener just to name a few.

And then there's this thing. Diamond Fingers sounds like a James-Bond villain and this gadget looks like something that 007 ...

Using an electric sharpener is an easy way to ensure you get a consistent edge without delving into the art of manual sharpening.

But be careful which electric sharpener you use. Some are too aggressive -- they'll eat away at your blade and you'll soon be left with a useless knife.

Others don't sharpen ...

Not many people need an all-in-one tool sharpener -- They can get really bulky and annoying if they're not being used all the time.

If this sounds familiar to you, you'll like that Gerber released this diamond sharpener specifically made to hone small objects like fishhooks and blades. It was specifically ...

If you're looking for a basic set of sharp knives, and don't want to have to mess with the piecework of selecting particular knives over others, this Calphalon set is a darn good choice.

Calphalon is a trusted name in cutlery, though not as high-profile as Wusthof or Shun. This set attempts to combine ...