Steel Or Ceramic Knife Sharpener

This sharpener is designed as both a ceramic blade and stainless steel knife blade sharpener.
Steel or ceramic knife sharpener. Users rave about how well made the rod is saying it outperforms more. Also the only material hard enough to sharpen ceramic is diamond with a hardness of 10. It might take a short while to get the technique of pulling knives through the sharpener perfected but then it s simple to use. Browse our wide range of ceramic and steel sharpening solutions for the home.
Any other considerations i should look at when honing this blade. The rods can be round square or triangular as long as the knife has a smooth surface to slide along. The most sharpening steels don t sharpen knives. I think for now i ll let a pro actually sharpen the knife since the knife sharpening sets are fairly expensive and i don t want to ruin the knife.
This cannot be used to sharpen ceramic knives. If it makes a difference the blade is damascus steel. The sharpener creates a slight micro serration on the edge of the blade that results in a super sharp edge. Still ceramic is gentle enough not to do anything too drastic to your blade in the process so it s a nice.
Ceramic knife blades use only the diamond rods in stage 1. Ceramic has a hardness of 9 5 as opposed to steel with a hardness of 6 5. See description below for how to get the most out of your new sharpener. Stainless steel blades use all 3 sharpening slots.
Lansky s lines of ceramic and steel sharpeners are perfect for sharpening in the kitchen and workshop. Cooks standard professional ceramic rod is amazon s choice for ceramic knife sharpeners with an impressive 4 6 star rating. It has a pre set carbide blade for coarse sharpening that is used to repair the edges of severely damaged blades. The problem with sharpening ceramic knives is that ceramic blades are very brittle.
However best honing steel is that do sharpen knives shouldn t be used in place of the above sharpeners the four most common cuts are regular diamond combination and ceramic. Ceramic knife blade sharpening. The pre set ceramic sharpening slot is used for polishing after the coarse sharpening or simply for maintaining the sharpness of the edges. Ceramic steels which should maybe be called ceramics not steels are capable of rubbing off a teeny tiny amount of metal from your knives as you hone them which you can immediately see as gray streaks on the white ceramic rod this means that they have a slight sharpening effect.
It is certainly one of the best ceramic knife sharpeners. Sharpening rods are two rods set in a base at a specific angle 30 degrees for the ones i use. Anyhow i was wondering if i should go with a ceramic or steel honing rod.