Cangshan 1026108 3-Stage Adjustable 14-24 Degree Professional Knife + Scissor Sharpener Black

As an admitted cutlery fiend, I’m here to confess we have three knife blocks filled with exquisite knives. If you love great cutlery, you may decide not to fill your block with a perfectly matching set but with the best individual knives for specific needs. Thus, we joyfully own knives from Wusthof, and Henckels and Asian names including Mak, Global and Shun, including their Kaji line. I’m a newcomer to Cangshan and very impressed, especially with the TC line with Swedish steel but I also own their knives using the exact same German steel as Wusthof. So let’s discuss pull through sharpeners below in detail: I own two electric Chef’s Choice sharpeners, one Asian-edge Chef’s Choice manual, and two Wusthof manual sharpeners. As you likely know, what’s unique with this very well priced Cangshan model is its ability to change the angle setting. Cangshan knives arrive new sharper than any other knives I’ve owned other than Mac. They are truly superb out of the box, even besting the Shun Kajis that cost several times the price. Like Shun, Cangshan uses a 16 degree angle and that’s why I bought yet another sharpener. The disadvantage here is that you can “only” adjust in two degree incremements. This is perfect for some brands including all recent Wustof’s that employ a 14 degree edge. However, many other Asian brands including Global and Mak use a 15 degree angle so I’m sticking with my Chef’s Choice for those. By the way, I think of this type of manual sharpener as the easiest way to hone knives and I prefer it even to my excellent ceramic honing rod. What honing does is gently puts the burrs back in alignment. Thus, if you do this once every several cooks, depending on how soft or hard the steel of the knife is (Rockwell hardness), you will only very rarely need to use the left side more aggressive sharpening mode. Lastly, if less neurotic than me, this model will do fine with 15 degree edges. I’d recommend using the 16 degree setting. You’ll know right away by testing on tomatoes or paper if the edge is as sharp as you deserve. Remember that when pro chefs use a steel to hone, they can never hold an exact 15 degree angle anyway.

Works well. Easy to use. Good price.

It does what it is suppose to. It wasnt difficult to hold. Its not amazing and not bad. I did a lot of research but bought this out of exhaustion and the lower price. I havent tried the third slot for scissors or what have you so I can only comment on the first two slots—coarse and fine. They both work well and left my knives much sharper. It still isnt my favorite. Im afraid to use it on my newer higher end blades. I tested my older workhorse Zwilling with a few swipes and noticed an improvement. I dont mind having this in addition to other options but I dont think its a good “one stop shop”. For whatever reason as soon as I took it out of the box I felt I would want something else for my higher end knives. And something that looked like it might have more longevity. It looked a little cheap but based on the brand I decided to keep it and not donate it. The suction is nice but I didn't find it really necessary. The red dial wasn't as fluid as I would like when it came to twisting it. This makes me hesitant to sharpen a variety of knives with various degree requirements. I pretty much just use it for 2 specific degree settings because I dont wanna risk the dial jamming.Maybe I got a faulty one—its not that big of a deal to me. I try to minimize the setting changes even though thats a major selling point. The little guide imprinted on the side was also nice.

This will sharpen to a razor. I have higher end sharpeners that take a while to sharpen, I use this for quickie and it works great on D2 steel

I bought this sharpener to use on my Cangshan S1 Series German steel forged knife set (an 8-in Chef knife and a 7-in Santoku knife). I bought the set in 2016 and have been primarily using the Santoku knife. I didn't notice how dull it had become until I used the Chef knife. Wow! I have never sharpened a knife before, and was worried about damaging my blades. The Cangshan knives have a 16 degree angle (per their website), and this sharpener allows you to adjust the angle. I followed the easy-to-understand instructions and sharpened the Santoku knife. I tested it on a very soft, ripe tomato and was able to cut very thin slices with no problem. Success! The bonus is that it also sharpens scissors! It was fast and easy to use.

Disappointing. Takes a long time to halfway sharpen knife and after tiring my arm, the blade didn’t feel really sharp nor did it slice anything really smoothly and efficiently. My old “dime store” one was much cheaper (discounting inflation) and worked much better for 25 years.

Ease of use. I just pulled it out of the box and started pulling knives through it. It says on the side, where to adjust the knob. So I took my pocket knife, dialed it in to 20, and started pulling it through. It has a very nice rubber bottom that grips the surface so that it doesn't move. WIthin a few minutes my dull pocket knife was fairly sharp. Now it's not going to split hairs or anything crazy but it's sharp enough. So I took it up and gave it a try with all my kitchen knifes. In very short order I had them a lot sharper than what they were. Slices through tomatoes, bread just fine. I didn't try any serrated edges, but those are always a pain to sharpen. Id say you're gonna have to go slow with it or it will just skip over each serration. Again they're not crazy sharp but my kitchen knives are much sharper than they were, and I'd say they're sharper than when we first got them. There are models of these on Amazon going for $80 -- I think this one is a pretty good deal -- and again they're going to make your knives usable again, but not turn them into razor blades.

The delivery is prompt and the quality is very good

This is a very, very effective sharpener. I’ve properly sorted out all the knives in our Joseph Joseph rack. The fact that you can choose the angle to match as closely as possible the blades you have is a super useful feature. Then honing them has properly restored ours to great condition.

Two years ago we bought a full Cangshan block set of knives. I already had a 16-degree sharpener for Asian knives but wasn't really happy with it. I figured I'd get the OEM version since they put their own name on it. Let me tell you I was not disappointed! I set the dial to 16 degrees and did five pulls on the coarse whetstone, followed by five pulls on the fine whetstone. To say the knives are razor sharp is an understatement - my Cangshan blades are as sharp as when I first unboxed them! I'm super, super happy with this purchase! The tool is nice and large, has a comfortable grip, and the large amount of rubber on the bottom means you don't have to worry about it slipping. Note that you have to hold it in your left hand and pull the blades with your right.

Definitely one of the better sharpeners on the market. There are a lot of rubbish ones out there

Don't think another second. This knife sharpener works! It even leaves tiny metal grinds on the counter as you make your knives sharper and sharper.

The guy on tiktok said I'd be able to cut sheets of paper with easeto show how well the sharpenerItried with mine but ... either he lying or I'm supposed to sharpen the knives more than 20 strokes...