ACCUSHARP

ACCUSHARP is an American company that makes knife sharpening tools alone, not knives. It made its name on hand sharpeners built around tungsten carbide blades set at a ready angle, which bring an edge back in a few passes with no oil and no experience in holding an angle. That is the idea the name was built on: a tool for someone who cannot sharpen at all.

Technically it works along three lines: carbide to take metal off and cut a new edge on a tired blade, diamond for finer, slower sharpening that suits hard steels ordinary stones struggle with, and multi grit stones for patient work on a bench. Add the steel, which takes no metal off but straightens an edge that has rolled over in use, and that is what stretches the life of a knife between one sharpening and the next.

Its tools suit the hunter and camper who wants a small piece in the bag to bring an edge back in the desert, and the butcher and cook who sharpen daily. Four pieces are in the shop, in the hunting knives section: the Tri-Stone system with its three stones, the Sharpening Steel, and the Diamond Paddle. If you want one piece to cover you, the stones are for full sharpening and the steel for daily upkeep.