Chef’s Choice Knife and Scissor Sharpener Review

Total: 95/100

Chef’s Choice is a line of professional quality kitchen sharpener’s, cutlery and other appliances from EdgeCraft Corporation. The Chef’s Choice Knife and Scissor Sharpener model 480KS is a fantastic combination sharpener that is the perfect home and kitchen tool. Keeping knives and scissors sharp is a never ending choir and using a dull knife or scissor can be just as never ending.

Using a good quality tool is a blessing when you want to complete a job and the Chef’s Choice Knife and Scissor sharpener can make the task of sharpening your tools an easy task. Using a sharp knife is important whether your cooking, woodworking or in the outdoors camping and fishing. A nice and handy knife sharpener that is quite portable and convenient is an important part of a sharpener that is the perfect tool for sharpener your knives and scissors.

The Chef’s Choice Knife and Scissor Sharpener uses two diamond abrasive plates on each side of the blade to medium and fine sharpen a knife blade at the perfect angle with an arch shaped knife edge. The arch shaped knife edge is better for keeping a razor edge than a “V” shaped or hollow ground edge.

The two slots with the abrasive plates in them have two wheels that guide the blade and give you an indication when you are correctly pulling the blade through the sharpener for the perfect edge. Using the knife sharpener is as easy as pulling the blade through the slot and making sure the side of the blade is against one or both of the wheels.

The Knife and Scissor Sharpener also comes with two plates, a course and fine grit for sharpening scissors and tools with the fine grit having a groove for sharpening fish hooks. The plates sit in a depression on the handle that has a magnetic strip to hold the plate in place. There are three guides for sharpening scissors that slip onto the handle top help sharpen the scissor to the perfect edge.

The pates on the handle will sharpen your scissors using the guides that give the perfect angle for sharpening both regular scissors and knife edge scissors. The knife edge scissors are special scissors with more of an angle on the blade or both blades commonly used in sewing and tailoring.

To sharpen a scissor you need to determine whether they are a knife edge or not by looking at the blade and using the corresponding edge guide. The guides are labeled on the part that the blade of the scissor goes on as well as being colored differently. The grey guide is the basic guide for re-edging a scissor to get the basic angle down.

The red guide is your guide for sharpening regular scissors and the white guide is for sharpening the knife blade scissors. Looking at a pair of scissors you can see some have an anvil blade, usually the bottom, and the other is the cutting blade. On some scissors you will have both blades with the angle and these both need to be sharpened.

The anvil blade can be sharpened as well and you use only the fine grit abrasive plate to sharpen blades of scissors. If you try to sharpen the scissors and cannot get a good sharp cut when you try them on a piece of paper you should re-angle the blade with the grey guide to start over sharpening the blade. They may have been ground too much and the re-angling may fix the blades for a sharp precise cut.

I have used the Chef’s Choice Knife and Scissor sharpener and am very pleased with the results of everything I have sharpened. The sharpener is very easy to use and you do not have to guess at the correct angle to be sharpening. With the knife blade sharpener through the slots with the plates it is very easy to get an extremely sharp knife edge4 on many blades such as kitchen and pocket knives. I have even sharpened a very dull X-ACTO blade that I use for opening boxes and letters to an almost razor edge.

Sharpening scissors is very easy and you get extremely sharp results. Using the guides you can quickly and easily bring new life to those old and what you thought was useless scissors. Sharpening those knife edge scissors is also very easy and these types of scissor are where this sharpener can save you plenty of money. Knife edge scissors tend to be much more expensive than regular scissors and they are just as easy to sharpen.

The instructions that come with the sharpener spell out exactly how to sharpen knives, scissors, both left and right handed as well as knife edge, and other tools like axes. You can use the plates that hold onto the handle to sharpen tools like plane blades and chisels as well as knives.

The Chef’s Choice Knife and Scissor Sharpener are also very handy to carry and store, even on the trail or in the boat. Both removable plates for scissor and tool sharpening fit neatly into the handle and are kept there by the cover. The three guide for scissor sharpening slide onto the handle and stay there.

The plastic body of the sharpener is sturdy and convenient as well as comfortable to hold down on a table or other surface while you’re sharpening. The sharpener is very convenient and safe to use as well. Your fingers should always be behind the guides and when using the sharpener it comes naturally that you hold the sharpener behind the guards and guide.

Overall the Chef’s Choice Knife and Scissor Sharpener is the perfect choice for all your sharpening choirs. The knife sharpener is the quick and easy way to get that razor edge to your fine cutlery or field tools. I highly recommend the Chef’s Choice Knife and Scissor Sharpener for all your sharpening needs.