There are two different types of hand held knife sharpeners. Sharpeners that have grinding wheels, or sharpeners that have grinding rods. Ekitchenknives.co.uk supply sharpeners with grinding wheels.

The main advantages of using a hand held knife sharpener is its ease of use and the angle is already set up for your kitchen knives (20 to 30 degree angle for Western kitchen knives and a 10 to 20 degree angle for Japanese kitchen knives).

When purchasing a hand held knife sharpener make sure you purchase the correct sharpener for your kitchen knives, dependent on whether they are Western or Japanese. e.kitchenknives.co.uk would recommend the Robert Welch hand held sharpener or the Henckel Twinsharpe® hand held sharpener for Western knives and the MinoSharpe Universal hand held sharpener for Japanese knives.