HXT Ceramic Thick Sharpening Rod and Angle Guides, 11-Inch Shatter Resistant, White 1500 Grit

Nice ceramic rod that with different sharpening angles. This will keep your knive blades paper cutting sharp. Not ment for dull blades since the ceramic is very fine. This will take a slighty dull blade back to original sharpness with many common angles to match sharpening angle of the blade that slip over the rod as a guide. Get your blade sharp and this rod set will keep it there if used once a week or less if the blade is used often. Easy and very effective I very rarely have to go to a wet stone any more. I absolutley love it. Only negative is don't drop it on a hard surface it's brittle ceramic and will break. Be careful with it.

Just to be clear, this is a great sharpening rod and NOT a honing tool. It can replace a sharpening steel and will do a better job.It's a tad aggressive, so don't go overboard and check your edge as you use it to ensure you don't remove any more steel than needed.The included guides are very useful in establishing good muscle memory, and are easily added or removed.Ceramic rods can break if dropped on hard surfaces, so treat the tool with reasonable care.Great product!

Well made ceramic rod, does a good job of touch up sharpening during knife use

One of the coil springs, for one of the blue plastic angle guides, had a dis-formed end so it couldn't stay hooked to the other end. I fixed it with some needle-nosed pliers.It's a good ceramic rod with no voids (like another one I have).A nice improvement would be a soft rubber cap on the end of the rod to help keep it from scooting around on the counter top. As it is, the end of the rod is a hard plastic that is hard to keep from sliding around. I'm looking for a rubber cap that will work.It takes some time to develop the skill to keep the same knife edge-to-rod angle as you slide the knife down the rod. I'm pretty good at maintaining the same angle with my right hand, but I have trouble holding a consistent angle with my left hand.It's a good tool for a quick sharpening, like a traditonal steel sharpening rod. It doesn't help you keep a consistent edge angle as well as the Lanksy type sharpening tools.

Easy to use and does exactly what it's advertised to do and then some. I was semi shocked how much of a difference just 10 swipes made.

My steel honing rod wasn’t getting the kitchen knives as sharp as I wanted. I did some research and chose this Wedgek ceramic rod. Night and day: the knives are like razor blades that get the thinnest tomato slices ever— and we all know that tomatoes are a better test than slicing paper.

I've owned this for four years now, with the angle guides. This thing is wonderful. An incredible time saver. I use it between sharpening with my Japanese water stones. Someone mentioned that it slides around on a countertop. Use a dishtowel over your countertop. No sliding, and if you should accidentally go too far, it would protect the knife blade.

keeping a consistent angle when sharpening a knife is key.The slide on guides cover a large array of angles and is easy to use.This is a very good tool to touch up the edge after use.