The Spyderco knife sharpener is truly no beguiling beauty ...

and in appearance it looks like a crispy air hostess of Aeroflot or a table dancerin in Moscow Rossiya Hotel anno 1960. However, having sixty years bouncing party membership under his belt. Welker plastic charm nestles around a couple of unimpressive-looking rods - more and more is not there also is not.
For this, a purely English instruction manual with such a microscopic imagings that they would easily be covered over with the tiniest borderless global releases stamp.
The somewhat lengthy CD in very modest quality which has been created at a time when the hula Hopp tires had not been invented and Agfa Clack black / white cameras were all the rage, make (even without the English sound) as a bit of clarity to what it is like. The whole package looks out at first glance, like a was discovered from the time of fallen factory new DDR Trabant of 2015 happened to be in a haystack. For a hefty price, which is outlined with insufficiently bold.
The expectations for the product were high by the price, when you open the package, the layman rubs whether the sparse contents eyes if he has no hold on in this order into the mesentery. Has not he!

Because what the layman (still) do not know:
The white / brown grinding ceramic rods are made of high quality Al-SiC Karbidcomposit, ultra hard and of a very high quality (whose products have to have some cheaper worlds) to its competitors are superior to classes. The Spyderco grindstones use is virtually non-starting, are intended to last forever and can be the next three generations inherited almost factory fresh.

And now for the benefit of:
This reconciles the hesitant viewers who already has a whole bunch of very streaked grinding experience behind him and actually from grinding enough. We want to know before trying to acquire basic knowledge But: The moment the layman reads something of 'modified grinding geometry' and 'adaptation of cutting-level', he gets a clear way out - who wants to learn a trade to a simple bulb to chop?
And that's a good thing, because when Spyderco needs a do not care about all this - to get even without Fachhochschule absolutely depp sure a knife sharpness, in which a retarded about Samurai would appreciatively raise eyebrows.

Conclusion:
If the Spyderco with cosmic serenity approaching and not hudelt (this is important!) Is obtained as a layman with the product without any problems a pungency that you have never known in his own knives. And I doubt if they had this focus on the purchase.
From the pot ugly black bead is over time in the kitchen a cutesy butterfly - and yes - there is a degree of ugliness so upscale that it transforms itself by constantly benefit thanks to our infinite sentient psyche in grace. You get used to well known not only to Mutti Merkel but to everything - especially when the user is in the case.
And it does 100% - as well as the buy recommendation.

Pictures in 100x magnification - Sharpmaker sharpened cutting very joyful, aggressive biting knife edge of a kitchen knife and a Kershaw Launch 1 with the Spyderco - without polishing.

Update: It is important that you push pressure with a knife on the most slanted with as little as possible. Therein lies the secret of the success or failure of grinding with the Spyderco (apart from the fact that one has to look at the accompanying DVD so that you know what you why and how does). By low pressure is that "ridge" largely prevented, which makes a post as polishing necessary.
A more pronounced degree can still give the sharpness of Kaisersemmel of a per se-sharp knife this.