Horl 2 roller grinders walnut and magnetic grinding gauge

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HORL 1993 are creating a revolution in sharpening with their innovative line of rolling knife sharpeners. With a constant 20° grinding angle and proven combination of diamonds and stainless steel, it ensures precise grinding results every time.

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Of note is that your kitchen work surface (or table) is used as part of the sharpening system because you need a large surface to working the rolling sharpener along the blade. Compared to our other HORL ® 2 models, it effectively achieves the desired sharpness three times as fast.With one hand holding down the angle support, roll the coarse sharpening stone along the other side of the blade’s edge. This won the German equivalent of Dragon's Den a few years ago, putting the Horl 2 up there with Reggae Reggae sauce as one of the very best things ever to come out of that show. On one side of the Horl 2 is the Diamond Grinding Wheel, which when used properly, never has to be replaced. Many of you will likely have seen their system popping up in various social media feeds, especially if you have any interests involving knives.

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The best way to teach your knife these angles is to do the following test: Colour the uppermost part of the edge with a marker pen, then sharpen using the coarse diamond stone until the mark left by the marker pen is gone. The standard sharpening angle for Western kitchen knives is 20°, and knives that are finer and more delicate, like Japanese knives, have a standard of 15°.Horl also offers a number of video tutorials to help you when using the product for the first time but it really is very easy. If the tomato bends and squishes under your blade, then it’s time to sharpen for up to a minute and hone for a similar amount of time. The industrial diamonds in the disc are suitable for steels of any hardness used for knives and ensure efficient, precise results.

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This makes the blade achieve its pinnacle sharpness, while giving it a shine so bright it looks brand new. There are lots of sharpeners where you just pull the blade through a pair of ceramic or metal disks or rods positioned at the requisite angle –albeit nearly always 20º rather than any other option. In contrast, when you use a whetstone, you have to press the blade against the stone to determine the angle yourself, and then grind accordingly. The 20° angle enables stable knives, with larger blades like European kitchen knives and outdoor knives to be sharp again. It performs great, and for someone who was not great, and maybe lacked some confidence when it came to sharpening knives, this product hits the mark for me.

Also shown below are photos of how the corners of the HORL 2 stones hit the plunge line and might not quite reach the very end of the cutting edge. An optional extra that goes with the sharpener so well you really should get it, is the storage block. After use of the HORL ® diamond grinding disc, the ceramic honing disc further refines the grinding result.