UPC Code: 230173, Dimensions: 18.75 x 4.5 x 1.75 inches

While steels are often touted as sharpening tools, few can actually sharpen knife blades. However, they perform the vital task of realigning or "resetting" the edges, which can bend when they come into contact with a cutting surface or other hard object. This steel's surface contains diamond dust, making it hard enough to provide some sharpening to the blade. While using this steel won't replace a professional sharpening job, which involves progressing from coarse grinding to increasingly finer grinding at tightly controlled angles, it will help extend the time between sharpenings.

This steel outperforms a traditional steel without diamond dust because it can accomplish the final task of a professional sharpening, which is to polish the edge to a fine point while realigning the edge. The rule is that a steel should be at least as long as the knife blade being drawn across it, and this steel's 12-inch rod can handle all household knives. The steel also carries a lifetime warranty against defects.

The diamond-coated steel works quickly to produce a very sharp edge. The flat surface provides more contact with the edge, allowing it to achieve the same results as a traditional rod-shaped steel, but with fewer strokes. This steel safely and easily keeps a knife's edge sharp, with no assembly required. It is a testament to German engineering.

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