Classic Pocket Knife & Tool Sharpener Medic Pal in Red

The best knife sharpener I have used. Great for even the hardest steel knives, including Global. Cannot recommend highly enough. I have bought these for family and friends and continue to buy for my own and my restaurant's use.

This sharpener works a treat. I can't believe how small it is. Comes with a pouch and you can easily keep it in your cutlery drawer. Delivery was quick and package small enough to go through letterbox. Brilliant.

Impressive! When this sharpener arrived, I was very sceptical because of its size: it's very small (about three inches long)! However, used as per instructions, it sharpens knives brilliantly - a few strokes with the blade in the middle of the tungsten carbide "slot" and job done. My lawnmower blade was blunt after a season's use - this took a little more work, sharpening the one side of the blade, keeping the non-sharpened side flush against one of the carbide blocks to give the right angle. Still only about five minutes later, the blade was sharp - and it had been VERY blunt. The same technique works for scissors and secateurs too. Yes, as other reviewers have said, you can get a better edge with an oilstone - if you have one, and the skill to use it. But this is quick, effective and very neat: the handy case allows it to be fixed to a belt for quick access. And a great price!

Small, light,easy-to-use, I'll buy at least one more of these to put in handy places. Cheap and good, it deserves five stars for value and utility. I notice some have knocked a star off because you can get a superior result (though I'd suggest only if you're skilled) with oil-stones and water-stones. I think that's a bit unfair, because while it may be true, the result with thirty seconds of quick easy work with this is very good indeed, and you can have this with you anywhere in its neat little pouch. Not much good trying to find a suitable place to soak your water-stones when you're out and about. Easily as good as anyone could expect for the money, and cheap at the price. Get one, you'll love it.

I had difficulty in using it at the correct angle, but once you figure it out it is good and does the job, maybe learn on some cheap scissors first before using it on expensive garden equipment. Wish I had done that before going at my shears, but with persistence I managed to get them back up nice and sharp, but they kinda look a mess from where I've made scratches doing it wrong at first. It seems it's quite hard to take pictures of blades but I tried my best. First picture is before, second picture is after.

Neat little unit for sharpening a whole range of items including knives, scissors and scateurs. Much thinner than I expected (like a couple of credit cards back to back) it is an extremely quick and effective way to get a good edge on your blade, though as many other reviewers have pointed out you obviously don't get the very fine results you would with an oilstone and the tungsten sharpening blades will eventually take quite a bit of metal away. For all practical purposes though, this is an excellent sharpener, and comes in a little belt pouch so can always be to hand when needed. So far I have used it on an Opinel folding knife, two kitchen knives, a Chinese cleaver and an anvil secateur with great results, and am very pleased with this purchase - might buy a couple more just in case this goes walkies.

This little knife sharpener is brilliant, so much so that I bought one for my son-in-law to be for a birthday present. However - I decided to buy a red one for him (as mine is blue), I ordered a red one, the paperwork said I ordered a red one and when it arrived the labelling on the packaging said it was red. BUT - inside the clear, see through, totally transparent wrapping was a purple one! It is rather a jolly colour and certainly wouldn't be lost in the grass so I decided to keep it. But, at the end of the day it wasn't what I had ordered. The sharpener itself is excellent and I have to mind my fingers on the blades I have sharpened. It comes with a little bag with a loop on it which means that you need never be without it either hanging on your belt or sitting unnoticed in your pocket. No active person who uses blades on any description in the kitchen or outside should be without one.

I only wish I had heard of this little sharpening tool before. When it arrived and I took it out of the bag I thought it was a joke, it was tiny. I still can't believe that it's so good at what it does. Our knives were so bad I first had to put them through stage one, drawing them horizontally through the tool to restore their correct shape. If you don't do this first you won't be able to get them really sharp. You then draw the blade down through at a 45 degree angle to put a real edge on them. I made the mistake of testing the first knife with my finger tip and literally shaved some skin off. The tool is really quite small and you need to hold it down on the edge of a firm surface to use it. Be warned - get a block of wood, because if you do it straight on your worktop you'll be left with lots of cuts on the surface made by the blade as the end of the knife leaves the tool. It's brilliant, get one and if you get in trouble for cutting up your worktop don't say I didn't warn you.