The Work Sharp Knife & Tool Sharpener is an innovative abrasive belt sharpening system. The combination of flexible premium abrasive belts and precision sharpening guides create the sharpest blades you’ve ever had with speed, ease and repeatability. The sharpening guides are purpose built for Kitchen Knives, Outdoor Knives (hunting knives, pocket knives, filet knives, etc.) as well as scissors and serrated knives. This tool can also be used for many other sharpening tasks such as garden pruners, lawn mower blades, shovels and countless other bladed shop and garden tools. This tool is assembled and quality tested in Ashland, Oregon and has a 1 year warranty. Includes a detailed Quick Start Guide and User’s Guide.
SHARPEN EVERY KNIFE YOU OWN – like a pro, quickly, easily, & with repeatable, consistent results. Hunting, kitchen, filet, outdoor, tactical, & pocket knives. Sharpens straight blades, curved, re-curved, tanto, & virtually any other shape of knife blade. Even ceramic blades can be repaired & sharpened with optional diamond belts.
PREMIUM ABRASIVE BELTS – to meet all your sharpening needs: coarse, medium, and fine. Coarse belt is used to repair damaged blades, & sharpening cutting tools. Medium belt is used for general knife sharpening. Fine belt is used to hone knives, sharpen serrations, & for quick touch-ups on blades that were recently sharpened.
PRECISION SHARPENING GUIDES – provide fast, easy, repeatable & consistent results. Interchangeable sharpening guides to establish precise cutting angles for your knives. Kitchen, filet, & other precision blades use 40° guide. Heavier duty knives such as hunting knives, outdoor knives, & most pocket knives use 50° guide, & includes a 65° guide for sharpening common household scissors, & a guide for sharpening single-sided serrations.
VERSATILE TOOL SHARPENER – Sharpens common cutting tools including scissors, axes, hatchets, mower blades, garden shears, shovels, & most tools with a cutting edge. The versatility of the Original Knife & Tool Sharpener makes it an invaluable tool for keeping all your blades in razor sharp condition and ready whenever you need them.
PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN COMPANY – This tool was engineered and assembled by hard working Americans. Work Sharp is part of Darex, a 4th-generation family owned company in Ashland, Oregon. For over 40 years we have been creating industry-leading sharpening tools here in the USA.
Product Features
- Sharpen every knife you own like a pro quickly, easily and with repeatable, consistent results. Creates the sharpest blades you’ve ever had!
- Easily Replaceable Abrasive Grit Belts. Comes with premium abrasive belts to meet all your sharpening needs: Coarse (P80), Medium (P220) and Fine (6000). Abrasive belts won’t burn or damage blade steel during sharpening. Replacement Belt Kit WSSA0002012
- Precision sharpening guides provide fast, easy, repeatable and consistent results. Kitchen Knife guide sharpens blades to a 40° angle – Outdoor Knife Guide sharpens to a 50° angle.
- Can also be used to sharpen a wide range of bladed shop tools and lawn and garden tools such as Lawn Mower Blades, Garden Pruners, Shears, Shovels, Scrapers and more. Also makes the ideal hand held detail grinder
- 1-year warranty – warranty only valid for North American 110v power source applications. Use of power converters for 220V not recommended. Can be run with 12V power inverter (min. 150 watt) from car, truck, RV, boat, etc.
If You Don’t Read and Follow the Instructions, You’re Going to Have a Bad Time Bought this to bring back the life to our kitchen knives and touch up our pocketknives. The instructions are extremely easy, this is possibly why people are making mistakes and feel they can just gloss over them. I would say there are 3 sets of instructions on how you can sharpen a blade; I prefer the ones located on the cardboard table. This system has already paid for itself since my husband and I did not need to buy new kitchen knives and or take them in on occasion. The construction is very…
Great little sharpener. Beautiful convex edges. Tape the sides of your blades to avoid scratches. I really like the Ken Onion Work Sharp. I purchased it because I wanted to try convex edges on my knives without the risk of ruining them while learning to do it freehand. My first attempt on the Work Sharp involved a brand new Ontario Knives Rat-1, an inexpensive, well-made knife with a pretty AUS-8 satin finished blade. In just a few minutes, I was able to produce a razor-sharp, beautifully mirrored edge. I also produced a LOT of UGLY scratches on that pretty AUS-8 satin finish because the…
I crossed the “Line”, I’m and glad I did! The Worksharp Knife & Tool Sharpener Ken Onion edition…For 7 months I debated w/ myself over and over about “biting the bullet” and getting a power tool to help me sharpen knives more efficently.Im almost 48, and since age 12 I have used my grandfathers’ tried and true stone & ceramic methods to put a razors’ edge on a cutting tool.And the old methods WORK. Period.But I cant see quite as well as I used to, and if you get off count sharpening and…