Chef's Choice EdgeSelect Diamond Hone 120 Manual De Instrucciones página 4

UNDERSTANDING THE VERSATILE
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MODEL 120 EDGESELECT SHARPENER
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The unique Chef'sChoice EdgeSelect Diamond Hone Sharpener is designed so that you may
sharpen each knife according to your intended use, such as gourmet food preparation, butchering,
dressing of game or filleting of fish. You can sharpen knives with either straight or serrated edges.
This three (3) stage sharpener has two precision conical sharpening/honing stages with fine 100%
diamond abrasives and one polishing/stropping stage using proprietary flexible abrasive disks. These
stages can be used in different sequences to give you either an astonishingly sharp, smooth faceted
edge for effortless cutting and presentations or one with a selected amount of residual "bite" along
the facets. The edge is ultra sharp and non-serrated. This residual "bite" is created by precisely
polished micro flutes that are formed on the facet surface by the ultra honing action of the stropping
disks in Stage 3. You will find that these sharp flutes on each side of the ultra sharp and non-serrated
cutting edge aid substantially in those difficult cutting chores experienced with fibrous foods, meats,
stalky vegetables, dressing of game or household chores such as cutting cardboard, leather, carpet,
etc.
The sharpening and honing/polishing actions are controlled by using precision angle guides for the
blade and precisely matched conically shaped abrasive disks. The sharpening angles are several
degrees larger in each successive stage.
Fine diamond-coated conical disks in Stage 1 create microgrooves along the facets on each side of
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the edge, establishing the first angled bevel of the Trizor edge.
In Stage 2, finer microgrooves are created across the facets immediately adjacent to the edge by
still finer diamonds as they establish a well defined second bevel on the facets that is a few degrees
larger than the bevel developed in Stage 1.
In Stage 3, ultra fine abrasive disks are set at a third and slightly larger angle. They polish and strop
the facets immediately adjacent to the edge creating a third micro bevel and establish a microscopi-
cally thin, straight and super polished edge of astonishing sharpness. The stropping action simultane-
ously polishes and sharpens the boundaries of those microgrooves created by the diamond abrasives
in Stages 1 and 2 adjacent to the edge until they become sharp micro flutes that will assist the cutting
action of "difficult to cut" materials.
This unique three stage design gives you an edge of remarkable sharpness and, because of the triple
angle bevel it creates on each facet, you will note knives stay sharp much longer.
The following sections describe the general procedures for optimal sharpening in each stage and
then suggest how you can optimize the edge for your intended uses.
Unless you do a lot of heavy duty cutting, you will need to use Stage 1 only infrequently. One of
the important advantages of using the EdgeSelect Model 120 is that you can strop and pol-
ish your knives to razor sharp edges as often as needed and yet experience little knife wear
compared to older sharpening methods. Resharpening can usually be done in Stage 3. Use
Stage 2 less often for resharpening and use Stage 1 only for the heaviest duty applications.
(See Resharpening Section).
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