Product Description
Sharpen like a pro at home, with the Work Sharp knife and tool sharpener, an innovative abrasive belt sharpening system that brings professional level sharpening into your home shop. The combination of flexible premium abrasive belts and precision sharpening guides create incredibly sharp blades with speed, ease, and repeatability. The sharpening guides are purpose-built for kitchen knives, outdoor knives (hunting knives, pocket knives, filet knives, etc.), and scissors and serrated knives. This tool can also be used for many other sharpening tasks such as garden pruners, lawn mower blades, shovels, and countless other bladed shop and garden tools. They also make the ideal hand detail grinder for light duty grinding or de-burring tasks. The sharpener can be used with a 12V power inverter to meet your sharpening needs at your hunting camp, RV camp site, or truck’s tailgate allowing you to sharpen where and when you need to (inverter not included). This tool includes a detailed User’s Guide and Instructional DVD.
Product Features
- Sharpen every knife you own like a pro quickly, easily, and with repeatable, consistent results
- Comes with premium abrasive belts to meet all your sharpening needs: coarse, medium, and fine
- Precision sharpening guides provide fast, easy, repeatable and consistent results
- Can also be used to sharpen a wide range of bladed shop tools and lawn and garden tools
- 1-year warranty valid for North American 110v power source applications
I bought this device yesterday, and today about 20 of my kitchen knives are razor sharp. With a machine shop background, I was familiar with small “3 wheel belt sanders” – we used to sharpen shop tools with them 40 years ago! Work sharp has essentially crossed a mini – belt sander with a mini electric chainsaw power head and “Walla” – the Work Sharp Knife and Tool Sharpener!!! Well built, and with angle guides to make sharpening a snap, it is a great little tool. One big advantage of this sharpener (over stones, wheels and other “hard” sharpeners) is that the belt will FLEX. That allows for contouring to a blade, and also prevents grinding off excessive metal. With three grades of abrasive belts, there is wide versatility for sharpening, grinding and honing. The belts seem to be holding up very well, and can be swapped out in just a few seconds. Also of interest to me is that the “belt head” can be rotated to several positions – allowing for standard sharpening, compact storage, and also use as a mini finishing / deburring tool! Quite ingenious.
I try not to get to excited about something because I’m sometimes disappointed as I was in this case, I was so excited when I saw the companies video about their product it is so simple to get the angle right I was excited, it’s so easy even I can do it. The sharpener creates a convex edge on what your sharpening, now for tools like lawn mower blades, axes and other tools like this that’s fine but for my knives I didn’t like that, it did sharpen them – quickly – and better than most sharpeners i’ve bought you know the quick and inexpensive ones and while i’ll say that it did sharpen them , and again I love the idea with the angle guides, I really love that idea , however it didn’t get them quite as sharp as I expected. and that is where my disappointment comes from, conceptually I love the idea. If I were ever able to make an improvement I’d add something behind the belt to make the convex angle subdued, the rounding on my knives was to much to rounded . but for tools it’s like axes which have a rounded edge it’s great.