Furi FUR626 Ozitech Diamond Fingers Pro Knife Sharpener
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Furi FUR626 Ozitech Diamond Fingers Pro Knife Sharpener
Customer Review: Keep Your Knives Sharp & Your Friend's Knives Sharper
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this because I was getting sick and tired of dull useless knives. I've been cooking more at home and have found that nothing is more upsetting than trying to slice and dice with dull blades. Even my in-laws have this problem; old knives piling up in the drawer that couldn't slice bread or a simple piece of meat without flattening it first, argh! While my mother in law attempted to carve roast with one of her *practically a butter knife edged blades, I decided to test this out on it. I slid the blade's edge against the fingers as instructed (which can be as many as 10-12 times) and after a cleansing swipe of a paper towel to remove excess metal flecks, managed to cut through the meat like butter. Fantastic! It's small, and fits in the same drawer with the other utensils. It's a wonderful sharpener when used correctly. I love it.Customer Review: Certainly not as well made as...
Summary: 2 Stars
the one you see on the Amazon page: the sharpening fingers are not as well covered with the diamond dust, the angle of the fingers curve is different, so you cannot apply any pressure on the knife, or the edge of the knife goes down past the area covered with diamonds and gouges the steel of the fingers, without sharpening anything. This is a disappointment.
I will write to the Manufacturer and demand better made fingers.
As to the shell, if you are over the age of 10, you should have no problems with its opening, as long as you look closely at it, and treat it with some gentleness. As usual with things you do not know how to open or take apart, do not force or cut anything until you figure out the procedure (or even, surprise, surprise!... Read The Fu*#$@&g Manual!).
Customer Review: Knife edge quality good .. not great
Summary: 3 Stars
May be that my definition of "sharp" is different from other reviewers who give this thing high praise. It puts a good edge on my knives, but nowhere near as sharp as I get from the little ACCU=EDGE that costs less than half as much. The instructions are not really clear as to how to use it correctly, for example; how much pressure to apply, how quickly to draw the blad through the fingers, what angle to hold the knife at, or even whether to pull or push it through. If you have knives that are not really in good condition to begin with, this is OK for putting a basic edge on the blade, but for a really sharp edge you need something else.
I've used it for about two months, a lot more at the beginning than I do now. Probably should have given it 2 stars instead of 3.
Customer Review: STILL looking for a non-electric, well-made, not-too-expensive knife sharpener
Summary: 2 Stars
09.11.1
I'm SO DISAPPOINTED; been using the Furi Ozitech Diamond Fingers Pro Knife Sharpener since August. I really like Rachael Ray, and I really wanted to like this knife sharpener, too, but the bottom line is:
IT DOESN'T GET MY KNIVES VERY SHARP.
I used to use rolling knife-sharpeners (can't find any more the quality ones I used to buy), and they got the blades of all my knives really sharp - "tomato sharp" is what I want. While this Furi DOES get my Wüsthof Classic 4582 Cook's knife somewhat better-than-dull (to be fair), still it feels a bit awkward to use, doesn't work well at all on my paring and smaller knives, and what sharp edge I do get doesn't last very long.
BUMMER -- I'm still looking.
Customer Review: More of a stropper than a sharpener
Summary: 4 Stars
I used this on my knives when no other manual sharpener seemed to work, and it improved the edge on my kitchen knives. Since then I have gotten a Presto Pro EverSharp Electric Knife Sharpener, which is much easier for getting that edge back on a knife, but the Furi is excellent for use as a stropper, which maintains the comb of the blade. After running my knives through the Presto I'll run it over the Furi a few times to smooth out any imperfections, and after washing to maintain the edge.
All told I think that this should be called a stropper to maintain an edge rather than a sharpener to bring an edge to a dull knife. Get an electric sharpener and use this as a stropper to keep all of your knives nice and sharp.