Product Description

Ideal for honing and sharpening knives

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2331 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Color: Black
• Brand: Messermeister
• Model: CR-12F
• Dimensions: 1.50" h x 2.50" w x 18.50" l, .60 pounds

Features

• The combination of industrial strength ceramic and a honing or alignment steel creates one of the best preventative maintenance tools possible for your knife?s edge.
• Ceramic is very hard and it has a slight abrasive characteristic so it can actually sharpen as it aligns the edge
• The ergonomic, soft-grip handle provides a very secure grip
• 100-Percent Messermeister quality

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Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

73 of 76 people found the following review helpful.
Great for home and professional use!
By Winston C. Hackett
First of all, let me say that I am a seasoned banquet cook and I work in a very busy, gourmet focused kitchen. My knife kit includes both German and Japanese blades, but I much prefer my Shun's! I have always used fine grit diamond steels and honing rods, but since I use both German and Japanese steel I need a rod that is able to hone both. The Messermeister ceramic knife sharpener is the best tool I now own. My diamond steels have never made much of an impact on my knives, but the ceramic does an amazing job of both honing the blade and restoring sharpness to the edge. I even sharpened some really old, dull, beat-up knives that we have in storage and it cleaned them up beautifully. I use my chef's knife a lot every day, and by using this ceramic rod, I can keep my edge precise and sharp. As I mentioned, I use a lot of japanese blades and the ceramic is the perfect material for handling them safely.

Did I mention that ceramic never wears out? Yeah. As l ong as you dont drop this rod, it will serve you well for years and keep your knives sharp. As a professional, my knives are a big, lifetime investment and by using the Messermeister ceramic rod I am keeping them near-mint. Great product!! Highly recommended as a professional!

75 of 80 people found the following review helpful.
Your search for a sharpening stone that works is finally over!
By TJW
Haaa--llelujah...... Haaa--llelujah...... Hallelujah! -- Hallelujah! -- Hal-le-le-eh-lu-jah.

Sharp knives! I finally have sharp knives!

This thing is so unbelievably amazing, I feel like swearing. It works!... by golly, the damn thing works! I've tried more knife sharpening systems and stones than I care to admit. In fact, here are the ones I can remember purchasing:

1. Smith's PP1 PocketPal
2. Furi FUR626 Ozitech Diamond Fingers Pro Knife Sharpener
3. Wusthof 2-Stage Knife Sharpener (the heavy duty version)
4. Spyderco Tri-Angle Sharpmaker Knife Sharpener
5. A traditional whetstone
6. AccuSharp Shear Sharp Scissor Sharpener
7. A motorized dual-stage (coarse/fine) grinding stone that came with a fancy can opener
8. Some other manual dual-stage sharpener I bought at Bed Bath & Beyond (similar to the cheap Chef's Choice)

Despite being a mechanical engineer *and* a mechanic and a psychotic perfect ionist when it comes to sharp knives, I was never able to get that razor sharp edge everyone dreams of. Sometimes I would spend 30 minutes on a single knife following the directions to the letter (I did this many times over with the Wusthof, the Spyderco, and the regular whetsone). None of them worked (though I'm sure a master knife-sharpener could get the whetstone to work). It's as though you have to be a Samurai-sword blacksmith to get the same results claimed by the manufacturers. Some of these tools were just plain junk. Others were OK. But never did I arrive at perfection... that is, until now.

10 minutes after I unpacked this guy I set about sharpening a Chicago Cutlery chef's knife and pairing knife (not the highest quality knives, I admit), a Leatherman Charge multi-tool blade, a Victorinox 4" pocketknife blade, a KaBar hunting knife, and a Smith & Wesson boot knife. Perfection across the board. I tested the first four knives by doing that nifty paper sli cing test you see on TV where you hold the paper in front of you and cut slices using the entire length of the knife. Every one of them made delicate slices from heal to tip.

You operate this thing just like the honing steel that came with your set of kitchen knives. But this is *not* a honing tool, it is sharpening stone perfection. With each swipe you can feel it taking aggressive yet precisely-controlled slices off the knife's edge. 5-10 strokes per side for any knife in average shape and you'll be shocked at the finished edge. But I should warn you: the feel of this thing shaving off years and years of wretched sharpenings induces some sort of mysterious swordsman's euphoria... a kind of mild intoxication that will have you standing hunched over in your kitchen making swipe after swipe after swipe like some mad scientist... trying to get sharper... and sharper... and sharper. *Not* because the knife isn't already sharp, mind you, but because you've finally bee n liberated from knife sharpening hell!

If you want sharp knives, look no further. This is the one.

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
It's that "Just don't drop it part" that will get you.
By W. Bick
Works beautifully when it's in one piece. But, as the other reviewers point out, "just don't drop it." Mine was in the middle drawer of my kitchen cabinet which is about 2 ft off the ground. Pulling something else out of the drawer, I accidentally knocked the knife sharpener out of the drawer and onto the hardwood floor. (no, not even tile). Now I have (3) 4-inch knife sharpeners. Not so useful.

So, if you buy one, plan for a safe place to store it. Our knife block didn't have a place to store it or I'd probably have put it there.

btw, I also used this in combination with a with Messermeister 400/1000 water stone.

So the 4 stars (instead of 5) is simply for durability. Kitchens can be rough places.