Work Sharp WSKTS-W Knife & Tool Sharpener

After finally throwing away my bench belt sander because it quit (and never was all that great. I could never get my knives shaving sharp), I bought this little gem. And what a gem it is! My knives (and I have tons of them) are all sharp enough to shave with now, and it was so easy. For kicks I viewed a 10 best list for sharpeners and Work Sharp was on it, but the nightmare system that got chosen for number one cost a fortune, was incredibly complicated to use, and is a joke. For you out there interested in having sharp knives (that should include everyone) Work Sharp is the best, easiest to use, and cheapest solution to your quest. This is a seven star product! Update: I've had this thing half a year now. I've sharpened about 50 knives, including my impossible-to-sharpen German knives, some twice and my pocket knife three times. All on the same set of two belts, I'm color blind so color isn't a problem. I go by feel. To those people with rounded tips, FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS! No rounded tips here or scuffed up surfaces. As far as sharpness goes, this sharpener will get your knives sharper than any other system, bar none. FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS! My knives are as sharp as any razor on the market. My Wenger Swiss Army pocket knife works better on cardboard than a box cutter with a new blade. I found a case for my Work Sharp on Amazon for $9.00. When someone needs a knife sharpened, I arrive looking like a doctor on a house call (that would be 70 or 80 years ago) but with a much smaller bag. I have the less expensive model. Let Ken and his buddies spend twice as much to mess with the adjustable version. Some people just have to fiddle with perfection. Don't pay any attention to the nay-sayers. They can't follow instructions or maybe can't read. Possibly their hands are shaking from too much alcohol. I have exotic stones from around the globe and diamonds galore. No professional knife maker uses any of those to prep a knife for sale. They all use belts. It took me 81 years to find the right one. My poor father died 18 years ago at the age of 97 and never got his knives shaving-sharp. That's 97 years of failure! They would take the hair on your arm, but barely. They are all shaving-sharp now. May God rest his soul.

It's so convenient to be able to sharpen your knives back to a razor's edge as soon as they barely begin to dull to return them to their peak performance. It's a glorified belt grinder like the pros use to sharpen blades, so it won't chew up your blades like other electric sharpeners. I can sharpen/hone my knives in a matter of minutes without tediously slaving over a whetstone like a caveman. Super easy to swap belts: just slide the guide off and pull down the top tensioner roller. Easy to understand full-color instructions show you how to sharpen all the different types of blades you may own. I'd recommend this to anyone because this is a genuinely useful tool to have in the kitchen, and I'm not being paid to say this. To clarify: the box comes with 2 sets of coarse/medium/fine belts. I'm still going strong on the original set of belts after over half a year, but even then, a replacement set of belts are cheap as chips ($8) so you get your money's worth out of them. If you have ceramic knives, you can buy diamond belts separately, which are pricey ($32), but I'd imagine the convenience of being able to sharpen them in your own home without needing to send them to a specialty place would be well worth it. I highly recommend upgrading that $5 el-cheapo mild steel knife to a proper $30-100 high carbon steel blade that holds its edge for a month instead of a week.

I've tried many different stones and hones and sharpening methods through the years. I've never seemed to get the hang of it. I'd have about 50% sucess, sometimes just making things more dull than when I started since I didnt hold the angle right. With this, the angle is set for you, no need to worry about it. a few passes on the medium grit on each side, switch to the fine grit/honing belt for a few more passes, and you've got a super sharp knife. if your blade is really beat up the coarse belt will take chips out with alittle time too. I used it to bring some fillet knifes back to life and now I give them 2 passes after every big fishing day (12-15 fish) so the knifes stay super sharp. It worked so well I went through all my kitchen knifes after and now they're great too. Construction is all plastic but I actually think its a pretty good quality and thickness. Great value for the price.

Ok this is a great product. Wayyyy faster than the stone method. I know purists will ridicule this device but for an average joe its amazing. There is a learning curve. Dont use your trusty pocket knife for your first time. Use one of the wives kitchen knifes. She will never notice lol. Ok the point of all this is actually the point. Yes its a pun. You will round the sharp point off your first knife. You just will, accept that fact now. It is easy to use and you will get cocky and zip the point is gone. Take your time, remain painfully focused your first few times. This sharpens the blades incredibly fast but the skill will take a few pulls through the machine to understand what’s actually happening. I love this product and would by again. My trusted blade made even my friends jealous that are knife guys that believe in the wet stone and waste a few hours. This is fast and effective.

I live on 10 acres of woods in North Carolina, so I have 5 machetes, 2 axes, numerous knives, multiple lawnmowers, lots of garden sheers as well as lots of kitchen knives and scissors. I have many other knife/machete sharpeners, but they are all manual powered. Was debating about buying a belt sander, but too expensive and the belts are also expensive. Flirted with buying this for awhile, and finally did it. Extremely glad I did! Was skeptical about the 1/2" wide belt, but it's actually very quick to sharpen and does a fantastic job! I bought another brand of belts, because 2 of each just isn't enough for all those tools, plus I wanted another grit between 240 and 6000. Found a 12 pack that included 120 grit, 220 grit and 1200 grit. Which is perfect, because 220/240 grit is the most used. The 1200 is perfect for the final sharpen on my kitchen items. The 220/240 is perfect for my outside tools. I sharpened a machete to cut paper in minutes. Have sharpened everything I have and really love this tool! The guides are great for kitchen knives and scissors and even the machetes, and no guide for shears, and serrated knives. Then turn the belt 90 degrees and use as a hand held grinder for Axes and lawn mower blades. Thought I would regret not buying the 3/4" more expensive version, but not at all. This works great for everything I have!

The first time I wrote this review, I thought I was writing a separate review for each of the two units they carry and I purchased. The less expensive Work Sharp WSKTS-W unit is a very good knife sharpener and one of the very best I have ever used; however, I returned it for its more expensive sibling the Work Sharp Knife & Tool Sharpener Ken Onion Edition to reduce the number of parts that you have to keep track of when you store it and for the ease of use its more expensive sibling provides. My review on the better unit is applicable to this one from a sharpening standpoint. If money is a concern, don't hesitate to get this one as it does an excellent job. However, in quality and ease of use the more expensive unit is just better all around. These units beat every other sharpener I have ever purchased and will get your knives razor sharp. This is especially relevant to the newer expensive stainless steel knives that are very hard to sharpen with a stone or steel like the older carbon steel blades (I still prefer). Slicing through skin on tomatoes is a piece of cake after sharpening with these units. I highly recommend and don't waste your time and money on a lot of the others that do a relatively poor job. These sanding belts provide a lot of surface area to remove steel effectively and the blade angling mechanism takes the difficult part and makes it easy.

I've been looking for a sharpening system mostly for our low-to-mid-quality kitchen knife set for some time. I've tried the stone/freehand method, which was nifty at first (you can really go down a rabbit hole on freehand/stone techniques) but it was too long to do each knife, and I'm unwilling to put in the time to master the technique, so the stone just lays around and I never use it anymore. Then, recently I thought I found a solution with the highly regarded Sharpmaker system (Spyderco), bought that, and found that it too takes time to master it (this idea of keeping the blade vertical free-hand, and also getting the blade to consistently lay flat on the flat surface just doesn't work for me), and it just took forever to get one dull knife back in shape. In the reviews for it, a lot of folks conclude that it's more of a "keep sharp" system, not a "make sharp" system, and that was exactly my experience. For fine knives, that are already sharp and you want do keep them that way, I'd say this system is the best. But not for the owner of a low/mid-quality knife set just trying to get them back in shape again. I was suspicious about the Work Sharp - it looked like a "brute force" method that probably would do an ok but not great job, and might easily grind way too much off the knife. But after the Sharpmaker didn't pan out (I'm selling that on Nextdoor now), I finally took the plunge and ordered one last week. So I got it and - Holy cow. It works really well. I got all of our kitchen knives and our steak knives in razor sharp shape in record time (maybe about 3-5 minutes per knife, from not cutting paper at all, to slicing paper like butter). It doesn't seem to take too much off the blade - no more than any freehand/stone type method - and it just really quickly gets you to super sharp. I know it takes all of the art out of knife sharpening, but I don't care. I wanted to find a way to keep our somewhat mediocre set of knives very sharp, and I've found it. The only drawback, is that it seems the sanding belts don't last a long time, and you gotta keep buying new ones if you use it a lot. But, I think I also wore them out faster than normal in just getting my whole set of knives up to snuff. Likely I'll not wear the belts out as quickly just maintaining them after that. At $7 for a replacement set (comes actually with two of each belt), this may be the gift that keeps on costing, but it works so well, I'll happily plunk down $7 a year or so to keep all our knives razor sharp . . . I was gonna knock off a star because of this fact, but naw - I love this thing, I don't care that I have to buy new belts every now and then. It's changed our kitchen for the better/safer, so it's worth it. There is a more expensive model that can do all sorts of other edge angles, and with a variable speed motor (Ken Onion Edition), and that probably appeals to folks with all sorts of knives to sharpen, but I just don't need all that. My kitchen knives are all super sharp, I'm done, and this basic model is all I need . . . .

I love having a good sharp knife. I have spent hours trying to sharpen knives with a stone with okay success. I have been looking around for a good knife sharpener for a long time. I saw a narrow belt one to two inch belt sander used on a tv. show, but it was big, like profession size. However, it sure gave them a great sharp edge within minutes. As I was looking for another stone, which I broke, I came across this belt sharpener. It was fairly inexpensive was portable and came with several grid extra belts and two sharpening guides. As I read the instruction booklet, it appeared to be easy to use. I tried it out and I was excited at how well and easy it was to sharpened my knife. After playing around with it to get use to how to sharpen with it and it didn’t take long. I was so excited afterwards, I ended up sharpening every knife in the house and it usually took around five minutes or less, mostly less, to get the razor sharp edge. I was so pleased with this sharpener, I had to take it over to my friends house and sharpened all their knives. Greatest sharpener ever. I will also be looking at other products they sell.

Es una invencion que te facilita la vida. Lo recomiendo

Muy útil y fácil de usar

Muy satisfecho con el producto, cumple con mis espectativas.

Bueno, no es así como a prueba de tontos, pero saca un filo increible, batalle con mi navaja por la forma de la oja pero conseguí un filo muy bueno, lo mejor fue afilar el machete.. super rápido. vale la pena si te gusta el filo como yo que me obsesiona tener todo afilado, pero si le hace falta la banda de cuero que la verdad si le falta el ultimo tiro para quedar genial, pero creo que conseguiré un cuero aparte porque si esta bien cara la banda de cuero para este.

Muy practica, cómoda y eficaz