Cold Steel CS-KS-STYL: Stylus Knife Sharpener

Sharpens knives quickly.

It's as described and works but I don't have serrated knives so I don't use the abilities of this sharpening rod to it's full potential, it's much less aggressive then when new but still works so durability is mixed, it's easy to use the light enough to throw in a work bag and forget until you need it

This works very good for many serrated and recurve blades. I do wish they offered a course grit but this is a good one.

This worka excellent on serrated knives!! And it will sharpen regular knives as well!

This is a good one, though I believe it's roughly 600 grit, so it may take a while to shave down a lot of metal if the serrations are very dull. May want rougher grit for that purpose. This fits great for our kitchen knives.

nice pocket portable sharpener! You could sharpen most knives or small things. I like Cold Steel, I like this too! Thank you.

Did you ever see the character / DJ on Frasier named Bull Dog ? When he would misplace something he would often jumped to the conclusion that somebody had stollen it ? He would start yelling, and I quote : "This Stinks ! This is TOTAL BS !" Or as a coworker of mine used to say : "Nah Dude, Nah." Some actor I've forgotten used to say : "Nooooope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope !" (oh wait . . . that was Calvin Jones the, now famous, Park Tool bicycle mechanic that does bicycle mechanic videos on YouTube. I used to work with him too. Waaaaay back in the day" Annnnyway that about covers my reaction to this sharpener. I love Cold Steel knives and have loads of them ! I saw this sharpener here recently and decided; why not. Glad I waited for the lower price. Don't get me wrong, one can sharpen all sorts of edge tools with this diamond grit sharpener. The problem is there are three different corners on this triangle sharpener, all with different angles and radii to the corners and non of them fit Cold Steel's serrated pattern. Most problematic is that the smallest / most acute corner is still too large and obtuse to fit down into Cold Steel's proprietary fine teeth shape. WHICH IS THE WHOLE POINT. . . . any old round diamond file will work on the larger crescent shapes in Cold Steel's serrations . . . it is the fine serrations we are buying this sharpener for and it SUCKS for those. I tried it and it just starts to cut into the points of the teeth and does not get down into the shape between the points so the teeth are just going to be ruined. I have seen other brands, in passing, that have the exact pattern so that several teeth can be sharpened at once but with this sharpener we are reviewing here it can only sharpen between two points at a time (effectively one tooth) and it is just going to make a random looking mess of the pattern AND take forever since the small teeth are so numerous. The other "nope" is that the grit surfaces on the sharpener are going to need some SERIOUS breaking in to smooth them out enough to "hone" an edge rather than cut the fine edge to ribbons with the larger "rocks" in the otherwise finer grit. . . . nope, nope, nope, nope . . . If you want to sharpen your extra coarse toothed tree limb saw . . . maybe . . . (in reality a regular file would be best) but for your nice Cold Steel serrated blade knives . . . look else where.

It works