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On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 4:33:24 PM UTC-5, Carl Ijames wrote:

Their
favorite 15 degree electric sharpener is the Chef's Choice Trizor
XV, about
$150, with an equivalent 20 degree model also available and another
Chef's
Choice model a best value buy at $80.
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Regards,
Carl Ijames


Before running off and spending $150 , think about who uses a knife
sharpener and their habits. I picked up a Chef's Choice sharpener.
It was at a tag sale or thrift store. I do not remember which.
Anyway it is unused on a shelf in the garage, and the cheap Harbor
Freight sharpener with crossed ceramic rods lives in a kitchen drawer.
Because it is quicker to sharpen a knife with the simple non electric
sharpener than it is to get the electric sharpener out and plug it in.

The electric sharpener would be good for sharpening a bunch of knives,
but my wife only sharpens one knife at a time.

Dan

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My contribution to family holiday dinners is to sharpen the knives. A
fine-cut file is enough to quickly reshape the edge on most of them.
Only the blades that can't be filed get ~15 degree stoning, I sharpen
the softer filed ones like a hatchet.

The sound pitch is slightly different when the stone is cutting the
edge versus smoothing the rounded bevel further back.

-jsw