🔪 Wüsthof 2-Stage Portable Sharpener (Model 2922) - Optimize your Search! Review

I had to send it back. I am a fairly experienced sharpener and hand sharpen all my knives on whetstones. I wanted to buy something for my parents to keep the blades on their knives. I applaud Wustof for trying, but for the life of me I couldn't get the thing to hold the knife at the right angle. I tried some cheap knives and a Henckels (same angle as Wüsthofs). Rough carbide only sharpened the torn edge. I wanted to like this thing, but I just couldn't. Maybe I'm stupid. The seller sent…

All my kitchen knives are from Wüsthof. They make good knives. So they automatically assume they're just putting their name on a quality sharpener, right? I thought to myself. After a few months of use, I developed nicks on the blade of my knives. I had to take my knives to a professional to fix the damage. He told me that this type of sharpener was the worst thing you could buy (he should know. He has been sharpening knives professionally for over thirty years). He recommended the Spyderco…

After trying to sharpen one of our excellent Wusthof knives, I found that it didn't cut well either. After carefully examining the edge with a 20x illuminated loupe, I was horrified to see a torn and completely unusable edge. This is travesty. The metal shattered into irregular pieces that rendered our expensive chef's knife useless. I have to completely resharpen and sharpen the blade on my Ken Onion belt sharpener and then refinish my Lansky diamond sharpener to try and salvage the incredible

I thought this Wüsthof product would go with my knife set. I have a large set in a block of wood with a sharpening rod. I'm no expert and didn't know how to use a fishing rod, but I've tried it on occasion and it seems to work. When I saw this product I thought it must be better and easier to use. Not correct! This dulled my santoku very badly so I took out the rod and sharpened it so it appeared much sharper but not as sharp as when I first bought my set. Then I tried it on my steak knives…

To clarify the use: someone wrote to press gently, I pressed so gently that nothing happened! So push until you feel a cut. Hold the knife perpendicular to the table at a 90 degree angle and start at the knife handle. My REALLY dull Henckel knives took 15 passes on the rough end and 5 passes on the thin end and they came out great. As I worked, I often rubbed my fingers over the knife blade, turned the sharpener upside down, and tapped the table to shake off the shavings. I could rub my finger…

I have quite an extensive collection of Wüsthof Classic knives. I can't remember how much they all cost, but maybe $1,000 or so. (My 14-inch chef's knife alone cost over $250.) I've had them for about 15 years and in that time I've sharpened some of them, but not all because they don't all get used often. (Like a boning knife.) Recently I wanted to get another sharpener but had no idea who to trust locally so I thought about buying a sharpener. Luckily, I also bought a $3 knife from Home Goods…

first let me say that I am a knife maker by trade. I have been making custom knives for over 35 years. Therefore, my expectations may differ slightly from those of the average consumer. However, I bought it in the hope that my wife would find it easier to hold a sharp knife without waiting for me to do it. In other words, so I don't have to spend hours sharpening knives used as pizza cutters. The tool is well made, has a good weight and does not slip on hard surfaces. That's what he says. As…