Shun Ceramic Honing Steel

Ceramic honing steel with slip resistant plastic handle.

Shun ceramic honing steel. For electric sharpening you should rely on the shun electric sharpener while for manual pull through there s the diamond and ceramic retractable sharpener. If you watch cooking programs on tv you have probably noticed the phenomenal speed with which the chef uses his or her honing steel. Honing steel option 2. The shun honing steel is strictly for honing that is realigning the blade s edge.

It will not only hone but sharpen. A smooth one for day to day honing and a micro ribbed one for weekly honing depending on usage. Lightweight agile extremely comfortable grip perfect for slicing dicing and chopping a full range of foods beautiful and versatile handcrafted in japan. It won t take material off your blade.

The shun fuji ceramic rod is a sharpening rod and will take material off your blade. It combines industrial strength ceramic with honing steel to create one of the best preventive maintenance tools on the market. The handle is a beautiful black laminated pakkawood for comfort and ease of handling. If you are looking to hone the knives like the wusthof or hinckels or something in that class.

This honing rod is made in japan of ceramic with a wood handle designed for a comfortable grip. This rod is perfect for the multilayer ice hardened steel of the japanese knives. The ratio of honing vs abrasive action will be quite dependent on steel hardness and toughness a very soft steel might be found to mostly hone haven t tried. Messermeister ceramic rod knife sharpener.

This means that they have a slight sharpening effect. This honing steel by messermeister is another high performance ceramic rod despite being a little cheaper than the dmt. Shun offers several whetstones and a three piece sharpening system that comes with honing steel whetstone and a bamboo stand angled to 16 degrees. Use it more sparingly than you would a honing steel.

The shun combination honing steel has two surfaces. Ceramic steels which should maybe be called ceramics not steels are capable of rubbing off a teeny tiny amount of metal from your knives as you hone them which you can immediately see as gray streaks on the white ceramic rod. Regular use will keep the blades of your finest cut. The steel is very hard 1200 grit and the ceramic has.

The shun honing steel has two sides for honing the blade and two sides for polishing. Same with a very hard one as 65 as i surprisingly found. The other rods were ok for my lesser knives but for my shun knives they didn t really cut it.