Diamond Hone® MultiEdge™
Knife Sharpener
2 Stage 460
INSTRUCTIONS
For Use on Both Straight Edge and Serrated Knives
The professional Chef’sChoice® Diamond Hone® MultiEdge™ Sharpener Model 460, features customized mixtures of 100% diamond abrasives specially designed to sharpen both straight- edge and serrated knives. This multipurpose manual sharpener meets the needs of professionals, chefs and serious cooks alike.
The Chef’sChoice Model 460 is a 2 Stage sharpener, incorporating a pair of contoured roller guides to ensure precise and consistent angle control - stroke after stroke -as the knife is presented to the diamond sharpening elements. Both sides of the edge are simultaneously shaped and sharpened. This construction ensures that the edges are well formed and very sharp every time.
The abrasives consist of selected 100% single-diamond crystals embedded on unique interdigitating steel support plates. The Model 460 consistently outperforms conventional sharpeners that use less efficient abrasives and lack any control of the sharpening angle. Diamonds, the hardest known material, are extremely durable.
Straight-edge knives sharpened on the Model 460 will be “shaving sharp” with a “bite” that helps them cut effortlessly through tomatoes, other vegetables and fruits. It makes cutting and slicing a pleasure and removes the drudgery of working with dull knives. Straight-edge knives are sharpened first with diamonds in Stage 1 and then at a different angle with still finer diamond mixtures
in Stage 2. This creates a double- beveled longer-lasting arch-shaped edge that is much stronger than conventional “v-shaped” or hollow ground edges. This unique arch structure ensures a sharper edge that will stay sharp longer.
Serrated knives sharpen quickly in Model 460 using only the second sharpening stage. The special diamonds in that stage create razor-sharp “micro-blades” along the dominant teeth, enhancing the cutting action and reducing the sawing and tearing action otherwise typical of serrated blades. Even new “factory- fresh” serrated knives frequently have poorly formed, dull saw teeth that can benefit from sharpening and shaping in the Model 460. Serrated knives become dull because their teeth bend and distort during use. The Model
460 restores dull teeth to better-than- new condition. The cutting effective- ness of the serrations depends almost entirely on the sharpness of the points (edges) of the teeth. It is not necessary to sharpen the sides and bottoms of the scallops between the teeth, since in general, they are not doing the cutting. The Chef’sChoice® Model 460 sharpener is designed to sharpen teeth at the edge or point so that the prominent teeth become razor-sharp “micro-blades.”
Serrated knives sharpened with the Chef’sChoice® Model 460 glide smoothly through food and cut cleanly with less effort. There is less tearing or mutilating of all types of food including meat, poultry, vegetables and bread. The face of a cut vegetable or fruit is smoother and more appetizing. The sharpened serrated knife is easier to control allowing you to make thinner slices and to manipulate the blade easily for garnishing.
The “micro-blades” created by the Model 460 along the prominent teeth of serrated knives are unique in that they give the knife some of the qualities of a straight-edge blade while retaining the sawing action of a serrated edge. This combination creates the ultimate serrated edge.
Before you begin...
The Chef’sChoice® Diamond Hone® MultiEdge™ sharpener Model 460 is “ambidextrous”-extremely easy to use whether you are right-or left- handed. Stages 1 and 2 are marked on both sides of the sharpener for your convenience.
Place the sharpener on a level surface about waist high. If right-handed, arrange the sharpener with the Chef’sChoice® brand name facing you. Hold the handle with your left hand making certain that your left index finger and thumb remain safely behind the partitioning wall where the handle attaches to the sharpening stages.
(If left-handed, see Suggestions.) Caution: Keep all fingers clear of the blade at all times.
General sharpening instructions
Make certain the blade is clean - free of all food, fat and grease - then proceed as follows:
Holding the knife in the right hand, place the blade into the “v-shaped” slot and lean the blade securely against the conical roller guides. While continuing to keep the blade in contact with the rollers, move the blade smoothly back and forth in the slot along the entire blade length. Make sure one or both rollers move with each back-and-forth stroke to ensure that the blade is in good contact with the rollers. It is not necessary to lift the blade after each stroke. Apply little or no downward pressure on the blade. The light sound you hear as the blade moves across the 100% diamond abrasives tells you the diamonds are doing the work for you! Continue this back-and- forth motion until the blade is sharp.
The Chef’sChoice® Diamond Hone® manual sharpener has been designed with the optimal diamond abrasive mixture to sharpen your knives safely while producing an extremely sharp edge. Coarser grits would cause excessive wear and tear of the serrations. The fine diamond grits used in the Model 460 help extend the life of your knives. The first time you sharpen a knife may take a little longer, but resharpening will be fast and safe.
