SHARPAL 210N TRANSFOROD 11-In-1 Adjustable Angle Knife Sharpener with Monocrystalline Diamond & Ceramic Rods, Tapered Rod & Leather-based Strops, Transportable Knife Sharpening Instrument Equipment for Searching & Outdoor

Perhaps the best field sharpener on the market. Everything needed to sharpen your favorite knife.
Sharpal has hit a home run for guided field sharpeners with added features that make knife sharpening fast, easy, and effective. Especially for people just starting out. All of the sharpening tools stow in the handle, making it easy to pack in a tool box or bugout bag. By stowing in the handle, any grit or metal dust from the diamond sharpening rods stays in the handle, and not all over anything else you’re carrying, and makes it easy to keep track of your assorted diamond rods. The sharpener includes 7 sharpening rods and two strops. 2 each 320 grit round diamond rods, 2 each 1000 grit round diamond rods, 2 ceramic honing rods, a tapered diamond rod for serrated knives, fishhooks and such, and both a rough and smooth leather strop, all in one tool. The angle is adjusted by the orange, knurled knob mid-handle. You can set your angle from 15 to 30 degrees in moments. I recommend going just a bit steeper than the angle you’re shooting for. I explain why in the video. Twisting the orange knob extends the orange paddles on each side of the handle, the there’s a window that shows you where you have the angle set. By having one rod on each side of the sharpener, you can easily maintain your desired angles on each side of your blade while keeping the cutting edge pushing away from you. The round rods make it easy to maintain your angle, across the full length of the blade, even on curved bladed knives. I own several Sharpal products including assorted sharpeners and strops. They are well designed, high quality and offer extraordinary value. Highly recommended.

Very useful
Very good sharpener, gets my knifes very sharp. Would recommend and buy again when needed.

SHARPAL vs Worksharp
For years now the Worksharp Guided Field Sharpener has been the gold standard for all-in-one portable sharpeners. I learned how to sharpen on it, and as I have yet to invest hundreds of dollars in a Precision Elite, KME, Ken Onion, or set of Japanese water stones, it is still my primary sharpening system. I am not a pro sharpener by any means, so I appreciate a guided system that makes things easier. However, I found myself wishing I could adjust the angle guide for different knives, and thought this new system could be the answer. It is a very creative design, but it falls short of the Worksharp in some very important ways.First I will list the improvements that it has made:Better handle – the Sharpal has a much better ergonomic handle with plenty of room for your whole hand. The Worksharp has no real handle to speak of, just room enough to hold it with your thumb and forefinger.Better abrasives – Sharpal’s microcrystalline diamond is a higher quality, more durable abrasive that what Worksharp uses. Also, some knives have wonky blade profiles, and the cylindrical rods makes it easier, in theory, to reach the entire cutting edge than the flat diamond plates. The Sharpal also includes a tapered diamond rod, which is much better for sharpening serrated knives than the tiny ceramic rod built into the Worksharp.Adjustable angle guide – the ability to adjust your sharpening angle with a quick twist of a knob is a real game changer, and the reason I had hoped this would become my new primary sharpener. The Worksharp is fixed at 20 degrees and there is no way to change it. 20 degrees is a good general angle and plenty sharp to pop hair, but depending on what knife you are sharpening you may want to go steeper or shallower. Also, not all knives come from the factory sharpened at 20 degrees. If you have a Spyderco with a 15 degree factory edge, you will have to reprofile it if you want to sharpen it on the Worksharp using the provided angle guides.Why the Worksharp is STILL the better system:Convenience – all of the abrasives on the Worksharp, coarse diamond, fine diamond, ceramic rod and strop, are outside accessible and can be used immediately one after the other. With the Sharpal, switching from coarse to fine to ceramic involves a lot of unscrewing and changing out of pieces. If you want to use the guides, you will have to have two of the same abrasives installed at the same time on opposite sides in order to sharpen both sides of the blade. Not a huge deal, but the next two are deal breakers for me.Ability to reach entire cutting edge – as you can see in the pictures, the Sharpal’s construction interferes with the ability to sharpen the entire blade. The bulk surrounding the angle guides bumps up against handles, thumb studs and guards, preventing the rods from reaching the heel of the blade. This problem is more pronounced for some knives than others, but it applies to almost every knife I tried. You can see in the pictures how it compares to the Worksharp. It seems only large fixed blades with very large ricassos or choils are exempt from this issue. Perhaps cutting out the plastic on either side of the angle guides would solve this issue.Ease of use – the Worksharp has two angle guides on either side of the diamond plate, so you can sharpen both sides of the blade on the same abrasive, and most importantly, you can *SEE WHAT YOU’RE DOING*. Stroke for stroke, back and forth, no need to turn the sharpener around, or go to the under side of the sharpener where you are basically sharpening blind. With the Sharpal, not having angle guides on either side of the rod necessitates sharpening in this over/under fashion which is awkward for a relative novice like myself. You see the scractches on the Opinel in the picture? That is the result of me attempting this method.Like I said, these last two issues are both deal breakers for me all on their own. Solve one, and the other would still be a deal breaker. It’s too bad, because this is really close to being the perfect sharpener and perhaps with a few tweaks it will be. Maybe these won’t be an issue for you like they are for me, because I’m seeing a lot of glowing reviews. Myself, I will be sticking with the Worksharp.

I have no bad things to say about this knife sharpener works great as everything to put a good knife edge on a knife easy to use keeps your fingers out of the way so you won’t cut them when sharping your knifes overall have nothing else to say i love it

Buono con tate funzioni ma avrebbero dovuto farlo lungo 30 cm i almeno 27 perche se si affilano coltelli gia da 18 cm mon vengono affilati per nulla !restituito dopo pochi giorni di prova ! Peccato sarebbe stato top ! Oltre a questo una volta consumate le barre diamantate non esistono in commercio delle nuive sostituibili quindi l’attrezzo si farebbe friggere !

Overall impressions are that while the instructions are poor, this is a well-thought out device and makes knife sharpening at home accessible to novices with just a single item, rather than needing a set of sharpening stones and strops. It does however suffer slightly from combining everything into one – in particular the sharpening/honing surfaces are very narrow which means more passes are required.I myself am just learning about sharpening my own knives so I hope experts can pardon the techniques on show in the video which are perhaps not perfect and simply show how to use this device. I advise people who wish to perfect their techniques to seek out some videos on YT.This device comes equipped with 3 sets of sharpening rods – 350 grit, 1000 grit and ceramic, together with a tapered diamond rod for fish-hooks. There’s also a rough and a smooth strop.You set the angle of the orange angle guides at the end of the handle via a knob, hold the knife against the angle guide to set the angle and then pass it down the sharpening rod using both sides of the sharpener to work both sides of the knife.I like the fact that all the rods are stored on board but when using it’s best to tip them all out and leave them out until finished.The instructions are quite poor, largely because the images are very small and it’s difficult to see what’s going on in them – this could really do with a demonstration video on the Amazon page, which is why I decided to create one. I hope this is helpful to people.✅ Well thought out design✅ Material seem of good quality⛔ Instructions poor➗Sharpening stone and strop surfaces are quite narrow, so it takes many more passes to sharpen a knife properly✅Convenient to have everything needed in one device✅The angle guides work quite well and are a good assist for novices.