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Chef's Choice Edge Select Electric Knife Sharpener 120 | 
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| Brand: Dexam
Category: Kitchen
List Price: £125.00
Buy New: £115.00
You Save: £10.00 (8%)
New (3) from £115.00
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 12219
Media: Kitchen & Home
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: Yes
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.2
Dimensions (in): 12 x 6.3 x 6.1
MPN: 120
Model: 120
UPC: 087877001200
EAN: 0087877001200
ASIN: B00004S1B8
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Knife sharpener electric model 120 3-stage conical 100% diamond coated disks in stages 1 & 2 revolutionary stropping/polishing disk in stage 3 high precision elastomeric angle guides
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| Customer Reviews:
Surprisingly good July 14, 2008
A. Watson (Sevenoaks, Kent United Kingdom)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this over the 110 model as it has Trizor plus sharpening and it sounded good. Yes I am that shallow! :)
The reviews for the 110 are good but to be honest I have never been any good with either a whetstone or sharpening steel. My global knives are now blunt which is a shame so I thought I would try this. So I was dubious this would work too.
After reading the instructions and turning it on I gave it a bash with all my knives. The instructions say not to cut the plastic by pushing down too hard but being a 16 stone 6 foot 2 bloke I still managed to do this. After thinking about Tinkerbell doing it I was ok, you have to put more pressure to the inside than down. The instruction manual says only one or two strokes are necessary but my knives are so blunt it took me multiple strokes. 1 and 2 give a nice sharp edge which feels sharp due to the burr it makes, 3 smoothes off the burr but can make it feel less sharp because of this, but I think that is psychological.
Interestingly my cheapest knife is really razor sharp the expensive Global ones are not quite even though they were incredible when new. I think this shows lack of expertise by the operator rather than the machine as the global are probably made of a lot tougher steel so needs more technique and patience. I'll just keep practicing on them trying different amounts of 1,2 and 3.
Big question of course is whether this is worth that much more than the 110, rather hard to tell without trying them back to back to be honest. The 120 and 130 both use springs to hold the knife in place, the 110 uses magnets.The 120 has a final stropping stage to get rid of the burr the 110 does not. The 120 has a bit more wattage as well and apparently takes half the time to resharpen.It also does serated knives. But does it make your knife sharper? Probably, but from the 110 reviews in general that seems to make a good job of it.
Pretty impressed, so 5 stars. Finally the frustration of spening 20 minutes manually at a steel or whetstone for no real improvement are gone forever.
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