Green Elephant Ceramic Sharpening Rod, Lightweight & Highly Durable 11-Inch Shatterproof Ceramic Honing Rod For Professional Chefs and Home Cooks

I recently bought a “Green Elephant” 11 inch ceramic stick knife sharpener.I like the overall design of this sharpener and the fact that the ceramic rod is 11” inches long,long enough to make a good sharpening knife stroke without running out of rod.The knife sharpener is slow to remove metal, due to the fine grain of its stick, thus it is perfectfor maintaining a razor sharp edge to an already sharp knife, where you want to just give threeor four strokes to each side of your razor sharp knife.EXTREMELY IMPORTANT is the angle that you hold the knife in relation to the sharpening stick.You want to lay the knife blade FLAT against the stick; and the tilt it upward just the tiniest amountand then make the sharpening stroke. Most people fail to understand this and get a poor knife edgeas a result. Also some knifes are made of poor steel that will not sharpen. If you discover you have oneof those, throw it away and seek a better grade knife. CUTCO is the best steel knife made.C.S.

Works better than a steep rod.

Solid. Definitely a good buy, use it daily

This is a very good sharpening ceramic "steel." I marked it down one star because the first 3/4 inch from the top is soft. It does a great job of sharpening all types of knives, but if I start above the 3/4 inch line, the knife digs into the ceramic. I think this is a manufacturing defect. I would buy this again.

Not going to say it gives me the sharpest edge, but if you use it for fishing, it will do the trick AND it doesn't rust.I have gone through two steel rods only to have them rust, (thats on the water fishing) which bothers me to sharpen a knife on. NOTE:, found it works better if you put a rough edge with a steel rod, then put the fine edge with this one.

Excellent knife hone, a bit more aggresive than steel one but really nice to use and rubber tip protector is good feature, for good kitchen knives keeps it very sharp.

I'm a knife smith and a professional sharpener. This works surprisingly well for touching up an edge. Much better than a carbide steel rod.

Good quality ceramic knife sharpener. Have used it to sharpen all my knifes and does what it's suppose to do.