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UNDERSTANDING THE VERSATILE
CHEF'SCHOICE® PROFESSIONAL
SHARPENING STATION® MODEL 130
The unique Chef'sChoice® Sharpening Station Model 130 is designed to sharpen each knife
according to your intended use, whether it be gourmet food preparation, butchering,
dressing of game or filleting of fish. You can sharpen knives made with either straight or
serrated edges. This novel three (3) Stage Sharpening Station® has a precision conical disk
sharpening-stage with fine 100% diamond abrasives, a revolutionary precision steeling
stage and a precise polishing/stropping stage, which uses proprietary flexible abrasive
disks. These stages can be used in different sequences to give you either astonishingly
sharp, smooth faceted edges for effortless cutting and presentations or edges with a
selected amount of "bite" along the facets. You will find that such "bite" can aid
substantially in the difficult chores of cutting fibrous foods, meats, stalky vegetables,
dressing of game or household chores such as cutting cardboard, leather, carpet, etc.
The following sections describe the general procedures for optimal sharpening in each
stage and suggest how you can optimize the knife 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 Chef'sChoice® Professional Sharpening
Station® is that you can steel and polish your knives to razor sharp edges as often as
needed and yet experience little knife wear compared to older sharpening methods.
Because the Professional Sharpening Station® is extremely versatile, you will quickly find
the perfect edge for each use. The Model 130 is, however, designed to easily create three
of the most popular but different edges as follows:
1. THE ULTIMATE FINE EDGE
To create an astonishingly sharp and durable edge – better than the conventional
"factory-edge" – you need use only Stage 1 and Stage 3. In this two step process the edge
is first sharpened with 100% diamonds and then gently stropped and polished with
ultrafine abrasives to hair-splitting sharpness, perfect for preparing decorative platters
and for precision slicing of more delicate foods.
2. PROFESSIONALLY STEELED EDGE
The Sharpening Station incorporates the latest breakthrough from Chef'sChoice® – an
easy and precise method to steel the sharpened edge to a better than professional level.
The edge is first sharpened in Stage 1 and then steeled in Stage 2 at a highly precise and
controlled angle to create an exceptionally effective microscopically serrated (steeled)
edge, the type preferred by professionals for the more fibrous foods.
3. STEELED AND POLISHED EDGE
For those who prefer the ultimate steeled edge, the steeled edge prepared in Stages 1
and 2 can be given one quick pass on each side of the edge through Stage 3 to refine and
further enhance the sharpness of the steeled edge (See page 10).
The Professional Sharpening Station is equipped with a manually activated diamond
dressing pad that can be used, if necessary, to clean any accumulated food or sharpening
debris from the ultrafine abrasive surface of the Stage 3 polishing/stropping disks.
We strongly urge that you always thoroughly clean your knives before sharpening them.
You should go months or even a year or more before you need to dress these disks. Only
if you sense a distinct decrease in polishing efficiency in Stage 3 will there be any need to
use this convenient feature described further in a subsequent section.
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