HORL 2 Cruise Rolling Knife Sharpener for Straight Edge Knife Sharpening Kit for Kitchen Knives Engineered in Germany with Industry Diamonds for Steel of any hardness with 20 Degrees

I've struggled for years with whetstones on all of my kitchen knives. The Horl put a killer edge on my Wusthof, a knife I had given up on for lack of ability to put a decent edge on it, in a few minutes. I'm sure it will handle the rest with equal ease.This was reviewed in the WSJ some time back; a Miami chef was raving about it for her sous chefs, the time it saved getting a good edge without ruining the blade. I wish I had gotten it sooner. The price put me off but, really, it's about the price of a good whetstone.

Knife sharpener worked well

My Horl 2 Cruiser just came in. Several months ago I purchased the Horl 2 Oak sharpening kit for $154 so, since the Cruiser was a different color I 'assumed' (my bad) that these were the same. The Cruiser only has one 20 degree magnet while the more expensive one has a 20 degree on one side and a 15 degree on the other. Since I own both, it's not a big deal but it might be for someone who is looking to have the option to sharpen to a 15 degree edge. Regardless, I'm a huge fan of this sharpener. My knives have never been sharper and I look for things to cut instead of dreading it (I once had a quick trip to the ER due to a mishap with a dull blade). Docked one star for only having one edge option on the magnetic holder.

Works like they say in the commercials, doesn't really work well with smaller knives, giving all of us an opportunity to buy bigger knives.

This is something I taught my wife to use and now my knives are razor sharp every time. So much better and I can see my wife now enjoys cooking more and less worried about cutting herself because the knife is not 100% sharp.

Love it. Very easy to use and knives stay sharp for much longer than having them sharpened by hardware stores.

Just learn to use a whetstone. And buy those cheap too... They are just a stone. I was just looking for something quick and easy. But, this made some knives worse.

Previously I had purchased a SHARPAL Diamond Sharpening Stone and spent a couple hours going through all my knives with it. I thought I did rather well, the knives were sharper and I was happy. I had kept going back and forth between a rolling sharpener and the stone and decided to save the money and get the stone. Well I watched a few videos on YouTube and the rolling sharpener just kept nagging at me so I decided to give it a try.As well as I thought I did over a few hours with the sharpening stone, I achieved a much sharper and more consistent edge with the Horl in about 3-5min per knife. I'm blown away at how efficient it was. I opted for the Cruise since it uses the same diamond disc as the standard and the stainless steel honing side will work fine with my knives.I am sure you can get an even sharper edge with time, practice and skill using a diamond stone but I'm not interested in putting in that effort when my main purpose is to keep my kitchen knives sharp. This was so effortless I will have no problem taking it out to tidy up my knives any time rather than the weight of having to dedicate time to use a stone.I gave this 4 stars because as well as this works, the materials/engineering does not warrant this price tag. $99 I feel would be more fair but as said previously, the performance worked very well so I will be keeping it.