3001 Wetstone Water-Cooled Chisel and Plane Blade Sharpener – for Sharpening 10-60mm Wide Chisel/Plane Blades and gouges

My Stanley chisels are over 10 years old and they've seen some pretty bad sharpening efforts by me, but I've also used them for jobs I shouldn't have. The other day I needed to fit some new, quite deep door latches and the chisels weren't up to it. I was about to buy a new set when I saw an advert for this sharpener. New chisels £39.00 and the sharpener £26.15. A new set of chisels would have just ended up in the same condition as my old ones so it seemed like a good alternative. I was a little sceptical but did some research and decided to order the sharpener. It arrived yesterday and it felt a lot more substantial than I expected. You definitely need to read the instructions properly but fitting it to the bench was a doddle and once it was up and running it really does an amazing job. Being a total perfectionist I think that is a real compliment to this piece of kit. (P.S. That's not the word my wife uses to describes me but it means the same) Anyway three chisels fully sharpened in no time and they've not been as sharp even when the were new. I'd say money very well spent and I'm over the moon that I didn't throw my old chisels away then waist the new set I was going to buy.

What a crazy device. It comes in a very tough plastic pack that is almost impossible to open, and then useless to store the gizmo in, as there are quite a few very odd shaped bits that need keeping - and it is a 5 minute job to get them back into the specially shaped pack. It really needs a simple box to keep the bits in - and I have not got one the right size ..The gadget does the business - but you actually need to be quite good at fitting together 3D puzzles to get the bits in the right place. Get it out after a month, and if the bits are not together, you have to puzzle it out all over again!Having figured out how the bits fit together there are a few more hurdles to overcome. It needs a mains drill. And it needs to be screwed down - to a table, a bench, or a piece of wood or board. Whatever you fit it to, the drill needs to lie on its side, flat on the table - a small drill may need to be packed up, and a larger one may not fit at all, unless you attach it to a piece of wood of a suitable shape. That piece of wood then needs to be held firm - by a clamp - in a workmate, whatever. So reusing the gizmo requires you to figure everything out from scratch - and if you have lost the suitable bit of wood you will have to start again. If you keep it fixed to the bit of wood, you may need quite a bite of space to store the gizmo - the bit I used was the end of an old plank - long enough and wide enough to support the body of the electric drill.Using the gizmo entails filling a very small tray with water rather precisely. When you turn the drill on, water goes everywhere!! It drips on the floor, and goes on your table and bench. Next time I may try filling it to its low level mark.Using the gizmo is quite fun - you definitely need a bit of practice to see what happens as you use it - as you start with no experience, and some rather simple notes.The gizmo is very crude, but at the same time surprisingly sophisticated - for wood chisels you can choose angles of 25 degrees, 30, 35 and 40 degrees. The chisel sharpening attachment holds the chisel in a plastic clamp - which you then slide back and forward across the face of the spinning stone - which is remarkably small - probably 5 or 6 cms across, and 12mm deep. Sadly the clamp will only take chisels down to about 12mm across - so you have to sharpen smaller chisels freehand.There is a very flimsy attachment for knives, which works, and a little table for freehand sharpening that is marked with angles.If you take a bit of care and time you will find that you get a remarkably good edge. The finished results look a little bit rough - but the cutting edges are as good or better than when the chisels were new. Whoever invented the gizmo had to choose a particular coarseness - and the stone cuts quickly - and is therefore suitable for quickly resharpening tools that are really very blunt, and large and solid tools like cold chisels. And the water keeps the metal being sharpened from getting too hot, and softening.Changing the stone is a bit fiddly - the geometry requires you to faff around a bit trying to line things up - like a metal washer and a paper washer behind the stone - that you cannot see properly. My stone came loose after sharpening a few chisels, so I thought I would take it off to see how it was fitted - and I rather wish I hadn't! But it did go on again eventually.So once you know what you are doing the gadget does what it says remarkably well - and all the faffing around will disappear the third or fourth time you use the tool. If you had the space and needed to use it a lot, it would be best left assembled, attached to suitable bit of wood or board. Once assembled it takes less than a minute to sharpen a chisel or knife.

Bit cheap not an accurate seating platform

Does the job well

First attempts to rescue two old, very blunt wood chisels were successful. Should get even better results with practice. Blade holder needs careful handling as it can flex. Anyone with some engineering aptitude should be able to obtain good results. Have not tried the knife sharpener guide- looks very flimsy. The Multisharp would be better if the whole thing were more rigid, but then it would, no doubt, cost much more. Well worth the price. Replacement wheels are easy to find.

This sharpening outfit has proved fairly effective in sharpening several of my plane irons and chisels. The instructions were not entirely clear, but I worked them out eventually. I have found that the carriage which carries the items to be sharpened does not hold the blades as securely as I expected, so the working edges are not always precisely square after sharpening. Perhaps I'll get better at using it after a bit more practice. The cooling water system worked well for me, keeping the blades at a low enough temperature for their temper not to be lost. I was surprised at the large amount of waste metal the machine generated - the filings are obvious because they are held in the cooling water. Thorough cleaning afterwards is essential, or there will be rust everywhere. I liked the fact that it uses any power drill as a power source, so you don't have to pay for a motor to turn the grinding wheel. There is much less effort involved than sharpening by hand, and it is much quicker. It does the sort of job I might have expected, considering the low cost.

I'm a carpenter by trade and thought I'd give this a try. In trying to be objective, this product is rubbish and a complete waste of nearly £20.00pThe whole item is made of plastic,and when assembled is just not stable enough. The whole thing wobbles and is very difficult to set the correct angle. The instructions are not clear enough and take a while to work out. Co-incidentally I had just bought some new chisels so was able to test the angle accuratly. When I managed to get it stable enough to test, the angle was way out.The water in the reservoir is also not returned correctly and you end up with a puddle at the front of the workbench.Avoid!

Takes the grind out of getting blades and chisels back in to shape. Read the instructions though as you have to set it up right. Easy to use then and worth buying a cheap basic drill to drive it. I did have to remove and then fit the grinding wheel back on as it hadnt been fitted true at the factory but it was easy to do. One tip, stick a couple of magnets in the water tray where the water drips down and that will collect the grindings. For £20 this is superb.