Rolling Knife Sharpener with 15° and 20° Magnetic Angle Base
$24.99
Free shipping in the United States · 3 to 7 days from our US warehouse · This one we ship within the United States only · Tracked · Damaged or wrong: refunded or replaced
A knife stops cutting long before it looks blunt. This puts the edge back in about a minute, without the guesswork of a whetstone.
How it works
You rest the wooden-toned base on top of the blade — its magnets grip the steel and hold it at a fixed angle, with only the cutting edge showing from underneath. Then you roll the cylinder back and forth along that exposed edge. The magnets hold the blade at a fixed angle, so you are not trying to keep a steady hand yourself — which is the part most people get wrong. The base has a 15° side, which suits thinner Japanese-style blades, and a 20° side for the heavier Western knives that need to hold their edge longer.
The two grinding sides
The coarse side (400 grit, 46 micron) resets an edge that has gone properly dull or picked up small chips. The fine side (1000 grit) polishes it smooth again. Most knives in a home kitchen only ever need the fine side.
What is in the box
The rolling sharpener and the magnetic angle base. That is all — there is no leather strop and no honing rod. Both parts have a wood-toned body; the roller has metal rims and carries the two abrasive faces, one at each flat end. The whole thing weighs about 380 g.
The roller is 5.5 cm across and 8.4 cm tall; the base is 10.4 by 5.7 cm and 2.4 cm high. It lives in a drawer, not on the worktop.
What it will not do
It is made for straight-edged kitchen knives. It will not sharpen serrated blades, scissors or ceramic knives.
See it work before you buy it
This is the sharpener doing the only thing it is for: a knife that had stopped cutting, three passes, and a cucumber sliced clean. No cuts in the footage, no music over the top.
The whole thing takes about a minute per knife. If yours are chipped rather than dull, start on the coarse side and give it a few more passes.
It ships free, and it ships fast
Every order ships free inside the United States, tracked. Part of the catalogue sits in a US warehouse and arrives in three to seven days. The rest ships from our supplier in China and takes six to twelve days. Every product page says which of the two it is, before you buy.
Chosen for one reason
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