Tormek SVM 45 Professional 🔪 Sharpener: Enhance Your Blade Sharpening Experience Review

This item holds the knife at the right angle for sharpening. It appears to be cast aluminum and is built fairly well. For more flexible knives there is another longer attachment. You can make mistakes if you don't hold the knife point perpendicular to the surface of the stone when you slide the knife over the stone. It helps keep your thumb on the knurled grip. Do this in good light and you will see the water flow evenly over the blade of the knife. I think that's an indicator that you're doing

If you have a Tormack (I bought mine many years ago) and you like sharp knives then this tool is for you. I have used diamond steel to sharpen kitchen knives but the results have been disappointing. When slicing the tomatoes (my wife loves them) I either crushed them or sawed them back and forth lightly to break the skin and start slicing. After sharpening and honing my chef's knife on a Tormack product, the knife cut through leather so well that I was able to cut slices thin enough to read…

I received a Grizzly Tools sharpener that came with some basic accessories - a guide bar and a clip for holding straight blades (chisels etc). I didn't have a special tool for sharpening knives. In this case, my results were poor, which is probably why the sharpener was given away in the first place. After purchasing this tool the results with the knives are MUCH better than what I could do just trying to maintain a stable hand angle with the guide bar. I'm still not good at making perfect…