Product Review: Chef's Choice Professional Sharpening Station

The Professional Sharpening Station model 130 is the ideal sharpener for all your knives; kitchen, hunting, fishing and even serrated knives.

Ease of Use/Performance: 23/25
Convenience/Storage 23/25
Appearance/Design 23/25
How much I enjoy 25/25

Total: 94/100

The Chef's Choice Sharpening Station is a great knife sharpening system for your kitchen, utility or fishing knives when you need a really sharp knife quickly and easily. The Professional Sharpening Station uses 100% Diamond Hone abrasives in its first stage for a quick and sharp edge. The sharpener has three different stages for sharpening any kind of blade easily and quickly with the second and third stage being used for a wide variety of edge types.

The Chef's Choice Professional Sharpening Station has three stages for sharpening knives with two of them being run off a motor inside the station and the second being sharpening steel for kitchen knives. The motor is easily shut on and off with the switch on the front on the sharpening station and the entire unit is solidly built and very steady while using.

The first is a 100% diamond sharpener for really sharp blades the first time every time. The second stage is a steel for sharpening blades just like the professional sharpening steels used by chefs to create that razor sharp edge with small teeth for perfect kitchen cutting. The third stage is a stropping disc that also spins like the first stage to create a hair splitting sharpness to blades and especially your serrated knives.

To sharpen blades you have to first figure out which stages to use for the blade and then using the guides along each side you pull the blade through the guide in a smooth clean motion. For a regular kitchen knife that you want to have a nice clean cutting edge for regular use you would use the first stage and either the second or third.

The first will sharpen the blade while the second would give it that small teeth edge for great cutting in the kitchen. If you want an edge for smooth and clean cutting, like a filet knife, the stropping action of stage three would be best after you initially sharpen the blade in stage one.