Honing Steel Knife Sharpening Rod 12 inches, Premium Carbon Steel Knife Sharpener Stick, Easy to Use Honer for Knives and Rod Sharpeners - Daily Maintenance

One sharp tool. Lol. Definitely a great addition to my kitchen. Works well and keeps my knives sharp

Sturdy and great quality! Worked great for sharpening knives

As another reviewer kindly pointed out, this is a good rod, but you have to get some valve grinding compound (pretty cheap) and rub it in with a shop towel from end to end for about 5 minutes (then clean with warm soapy water) before you take this honing rod to your knives. Good value for money, just needs this additional step before being ready for use; it comes out of the packaging with plenty of burrs on it that will wreck your knife edge otherwise. Now that it's been smoothed out, it works great!

The biggest problem with these are you cannot get them wet. I see a lot of people complain that these rust very quickly, and they do if you get them wet with water. I always have my knives clean before I hone them, so there's really no need for me to ever wash this. Even if I need to, I would just take a sanitizer wipe and then a dry towel to make sure that it's completely dry. If you do that, it'll last for a while. My boss used to be able to get these for free at work before the company decided to go with a different and crappy option. I was so happy when I found this. It's absolutely perfect to hone your knives real quick before you need to cut anything. If this is rusting after just a couple months of use, you're doing something wrong. I definitely buy this again and probably will for my crew.

It's a standard carbon steel honing rod. It cleans up the edge nicely after you sharpen a knife and if you use it every now and then, just a couple swipes even, you won't need to resharpen nearly as often. I keep it in the kitchen and do my knives once each side after washing and they cut everything like butter without an expensive sharpening set-up. I imagine the texture, which is what does the honing, will wear out quicker than a more expensive one, but in my experience these last a really long time regardless so I'm not overly concerned. First one I ordered came with a damaged handle, but getting it replaced was a breeze and cost me nothing but $1 for a padded shipping envelope at UPS. I got the damaged one Monday, shipped it back Wednesday, and had the new one Saturday.

Easy to use and I can sharpen my own knives instead of having to wait for my husband

Honed all my 8 knives with 3 swipes each. No need to pay extra for a simple grooved honing steel. AS many have said, this is a soft steel HONING rod. It does not sharpen blades, it only straightens edges that have bent or warped from use. No metal is removed off the blade. If you chop a lot with your knife the edge will bend or get wavy and appear "dull". you will absolutely need to hone it daily to straighten the edge.

Sharpening quality poor, however it works well for fine finishing I should have ordered course

もう少し長い方が使い勝手が いいかもです 100円ショップのよりかは 全然いいです。いくつも買い換えるより コスパは抜群です

Love it, great quality and it looks and works really good !

ナイフの方が硬い材質だったので研ぎ棒の方が削れました。

Once you get used to it, it works just fine.

I am a cook used so many Knife sharpeners even I can sharpen a knife with a spoon but this product Worst ever … just Wasting money for useless sharpener normally I do not write a review no time for that kind of stuff even didn’t returned just Throw it garbage maybe help someone one to not buy it .. chesss