Customer Reviews

AccuSharp 3036-2024 Knife Sharpener Replacement Blades

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I purchased the replacement blades with my first of three purchases of the Accu Sharp Knife Sharpener. I have since learned that the blades on the knife sharpener can be removed and turned around with no need for replacement blades and at the low cost of the knife sharpener I will just replace the entire unit.

Update July 28, 2010: You know that "junk" that's always in the bottom of every drawer in the kitchen? This is it! It'll still be there when I'm dead and gone and someday some sweet young thing will come along and solve the problem and just hold the drawer over the trash can. There, done and done - says the sweet young thing as she happily empties years of clutter and accumulation.

I ordered AccuSharp 001 Knife Sharpener at the same time that I ordered a J.A. Henckels 8 Piece Stylus Block Set. When I first received this sharpener, It worked well at keeping the knives very sharp. After using it for around four months, honing mostly the three knife blades used most about once a month, I needed to open it up and reverse the carbide inserts because it had stopped sharpening the knives.

Within another four months the sharpener was completely useless. It wouldn't work any longer. So the carbide inserts do need replacement after 30 to 40 times of use, and the carbide inserts that need to be replaced are at a cost almost equal to what I had paid for the entire unit.

The "5 to 10 years of use between blade changes" on the product page of the AccuSharp Sharpener is a complete exaggeration. Just two weeks ago, I paid over $7.00 to Amazon (best price on the web) for a new set of replaceable blades, after only eight months of what I consider to be light use.

Very cost effective. Keeps our precious knives working their best. Fairly easy to install; just be sure little ones aren't around at the time. We are very happy with our AccuSharp Knife Sharpener and the replacement blades. We've tried several different types of knife sharpeners and this is definitely our favorite. We love to cook and having sharp knives is very important to the cooking process, so we take this seriously. Highly recommend!

I purchased this item after seeing it reviewed on Americas test kitchen. It works very well.

We haven't used the replacement blades yet. The way it looks we won't have to for a long time. These sharpening blades are amazing!!!! We've sharpened so many blades and it hardly shows!

About ten years ago a friend walked in and said, "Hey, I got something for you Chef."
I have cooked professionally, and at home for many years, and I was blown away by the Accusharpe.
I thought "this is some kind of cheap little gimmick," but, Nay, far from it, this is by far the best knife sharpener I've ever used, and since getting this one I've given all the others to Goodwill.
America's Test Kitchen showed results of 10 high-end sharpeners, including multi-slotted electric sharpeners, then brought out the Accusharp, saying,"Unless you are just bound and determined to spend $200.00 on a sharpener, then there is no need to spend more, and went onto demonstrate the Accusharpe. They did recommend that we keep our Steel, saying that a knife edge develops an invisible "curl" which should be first removed with a steel, then run through the Accusharp for a fine, polished edge.
If this company wanted to be snobbish, they could put bone, or pearl handles on this baby, call it the Ferrari of knife sharpeners, and charge $50.00 for it.
Do yourself a favor, get one before they think of something like that.
Paul Cummins
Santa Cruz, California

...you can send your sharpener back to the manufacturer and they'll return it good as new (read the fine print on the package).

This is partly a review of the sharpener itself. The system just rules! I've been sharpening knives for year with all sorts of different mechanisms and this is the simplest, most accurate way yet.

It does mean you'll spend quite a bit of time at first, for you have to grind the knife down to the angle of the sharpener, which can be a bit. But once that's done, you're good and then it's just simple touch-ups from then on out.

Don't buy a high-end electric knife grinder. They don't work anywhere near as well as this Accusharp system.

Not much to say, other than these replacement blades are the same blades that come with the great sharpener.
Not sure if they mention this in the instructions, but you can turn the blades around when they get dull for twice the lifespan!

I bought these when I bought the sharpener which I love! Heck my 30 year old chef's knife is as sharp as my new one. All my knives are in great shape now.

But, I honestly don't know when I'll use the replacements. The sharpener is quite inexpensive. The technology is commonplace now. You'll be able to replace the whole sharpener for about what you'd pay for the replacement blades.

I like not having to fool with a steel. My husband likes not ever having to take his stone to my knives again.