Your knife is too dull to even cut into a succulent, perfectly cooked bird (thanks to whoever did the cooking). If you don’t have a sharpening rod, this is a serious problem that won’t get ...

Even for those quite comfortable sharpening straight-edged knives, sharpening a serrated knife can be a completely different ...

but that metal shaft sitting amongst the knives confuses some. Many folks are under the impression it is a sharpener, as it is often marketed as such. But this is actually a honing rod.

and scraping both sides of a blade across the rod at the proper angle nudges (hones) its edge back in place. Sharpening is the practice of aggressively polishing a knife to reform its edge.

The knife sharpener is a straightforward build, requiring a few simple 3D printed parts in combination with some nuts, bolts, and aluminum rods. It’s designed to use commonly sized whetstones ...