Price: $199.95
(as of Dec 16, 2024 08:20:10 UTC - Details)

Create an incredibly like-new sharp edge with this electric multi-stage knife sharpener. Safe for use with high-quality knives, the unit can restore a 15-degree edge for Asian-style knives and a 20-degree edge for European- and American-style knives. It can also sharpen fine-edge or serrated blades, sports knives, pocket knives, and Santoku and traditional Japanese-style single-bevel edges, including the thicker Deba-style blades, as well as double-bevel blades. Its three-stage system produces a perfect edge. Precise knife guides automatically position the knife for foolproof operation, while 100-percent diamond abrasives and patented flexible stropping and polishing discs sharpen, hone, and deliver a microscopically polished edge. Other highlights include a simple on/off switch, stabilizing feet, and durable construction.
Electric 3-stage knife sharpener for straight, serrated, single-, and double-bevel knives
Puts a sharp edge on european/american (20 degree) and asian-style (15 degree) knives
Patented flexible stropping/polishing disks for a microscopically polished edge
100-percent diamond abrasives sharpen and hone; knife guides
Measures 12 by 6-1/5 by 6-2/5 inches; 3-year limited warranty
Reviewer: Walter
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Simple and works
Review: I decided to try this item out as it got good reviews on the internet. I am not trying to sharpen my cutlery by learning angles, honing stones, and the rest of that nonsense. I will leave that to the professional cooks. I ran my steak knives and cutting knives through the Chef's Choice, and it gave back a sharpness and life to those dull utensils. I am pretty impressed. There was a feel you get when you are in the grove and the device is doing exactly what it is supposed to be doing.

Reviewer: Handygirl
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Knives sharp
Review: It sharpens those knives right up. And has both western and Japanese angles. Easy to use. Highly recommend this model. I had a different model and it was terrible. This has diamond abrasives while my other one was ceramic. Get Diamond! Worth extra money, knives are expensive.

Reviewer: Larry B. Wright
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Easy professional results
Review: This is an easy-to-use sharpener! It weighs enough to stay put while using it! You get professional knife-sharpening results quickly!

Reviewer: genesrus
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent Sharpener (with a concern or two) BUT NOT FOR CERAMICS
Review: Received this July 24th 2014. Couldn't wait to test out the 1520 on some of my knives of yesteryear. I have knives from graduate school, when I was a young pup, which could have been used as spoons- very glad I hung on to them. I have a Chicago cutlery 7 inch knife that was in this category and is now almost as good as my Global G-46 (oh! And btw if you want a knife that is truly outstanding and will be squabbled over by your heirs it is the G-46 - another review for later!)The 1520 worked wonders on the knives that I sharpened. Took about 30 minutes for 8 knives (after I had read through the instruction manual). I started out by trying to cut a piece of printer/copier paper - the Global G-46 knife which is about a year old and the massive Lamson-Goodnow knife were able to cut the paper. I also used a plum (no tomatoes). Only the G-46 was able to cut the thinnest slice off the plum. A couple of others could cut thicker slices and some couldn't cut through a plum without crushing it significantly! The goal with a very sharp knife is to get me a slice off a plum (or tomato) that is thinner than a sheet of paper. At the end of this first foray into knife sharpening every single knife I sharpened with the 1520 could cut the perfect slice off a plum.A very good product with a minor issue! More about this at the bottomThe device is "assembled in U.S.A". Not sure if that is a euphemism for packaged in a box here in the states! Comes with a 3 year warrantyA couple of provisos: you CANNOT sharpen ceramic knives or scissors with this.The instruction manual is well written and lucid - a rarity in our age. It may be available on their website (can't link to one for you - amazon deletes the link!).There are six grooves, in three groups, that are available for sharpening knives. The first group is for Asian knives (like the Global G-46). The second is for American and European knives. The last group is for the final honing and polishing after you are done with group 1 or group 2.Each group has two grooves. Think of each groove as a v shaped piece of plastic you put your knife into and pull through. Most knives have a left side of the blade and a right side. You alternate between the groove, first pulling through the left groove and then the right, within each group.I took the Chicago cutlery knife (mentioned earlier) and decided to try and convert it into an Asian blade (If you look at a knife as you are cutting something, the very top of the blade is blunt and thick, the sharp edge forms the bottom and tapers. The taper is 15 degrees for most Asian knives. American and European knives have a 20 degree taper. Asian blades tend to be sharper but thinner because of the difference in the taper.) In about 5 minutes it was razor sharp and now had the 15 degree taper. I was frankly very surprised that I got the perfect edge where none had existed for over 14 years.A negative: The grooves are plastic and I found that by the time the knives were on the honing wheel they were cutting into the plastic that forms the wall of the grooves. The actual sharpening occurs in the valley of the groove and there is no plastic there. Still I had to be careful when inserting the knives into the grooves so as not to keep cutting the plastic as I pulled it through.You may want to do a search for Chef's choice 115 as well - not sure if it offers the two different knife type options (Asian & European).

Reviewer: Ben Haley
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The super value
Review: He’s easy to use and performs exactly as advertised

Reviewer: Kennedy Emerson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Powerful and Thorough Sharpener
Review: I used this to re-sharpen some old Japanese vanadium steel knives and they are now incredibly sharp. Absolutely worth every penny. A few dozen pulls through the 15 degree sharpener and then the honing strop making for an extremely sharp knife. The sharpening blades leave a burr no matter how smoothly you pull through one side making the addition of the honing strop makes this sharpener vastly superior to the sharpener only variants, and making the need for an extra strop or de-burring device not required. A perfect all in one set up taking dull knives to Chef's Choice Sharpness.

Reviewer: Mp
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Just what we needed!
Review: Easy to use and works great on all of our German made knives! Definitely recommend as knives get really sharp!

Reviewer: Mike G.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Does its job very well
Review: I read all the reviews I could in the time I had to make this purchase decision. The overriding theme was that this sharpener makes blades really sharp, but might make them ugly. You know what's really ugly? Your hand after you slice it open because your blade's dull as a result of worrying about scratching it.This sharpener really didn't make my blades ugly. Yes, it put a few light scratches on the right side of some blades. However, the paper I used to test the sharpness after using the product definitely did not survive. I have some excellent and beautiful knives. All 9 of the blades I sharpened on day 1 were at least razor sharp, including my single-bevel yanagiba. I was a bit concerned, because this was one of VERY few electric sharpeners available for Asian style blades. I definitely didn't have to settle. I really like this tool. While a wet stone is the traditional and "proper" way to sharpen Asian knives, this tool reduces the possibility for human error and enabled me to sharpen those 9 blades in about the time it would have taken me to do 1 or 2 on my stone. I would highly recommend it.

Reviewer: Topdog
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This really shouldn't be sellable to the UK. Fairly large fire hazard. Avoid sending back immediately.

Reviewer: Fritz Unzufriedener
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Konnte das Produkt nicht einmal Teste. Amerikanischer Stecker und 110 Volt. In Deutschland unbrauchbar. Wäre das in der Beschreibung angegeben, könnte man jede Menge Kosten und CO2 ersparen. Ein Stern nur, weil es nicht 0 Sterne gibt.

Reviewer: Jeff721
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Very good product! My knifes are extremely sharp now!Sometimes, the positioning of the blade on the stone is not always clear but once you get used to the sharpening motion, it is very smooth!

Reviewer: Marco A.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: estoy muy contento con la compra realizada el aparato cumple con su función 100% satisfecho

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Would highly recommend this sharpener