So I've tried to sharpen all my life, was a boy scout and now that I've got into cooking I tried buying a whetstone to sharpen my knifes, but for the life of me I can't keep a steady angle so I've fucked up multiple knifes. I tried all the tricks like drawing on the edge with a sharpie, but I give up whetstone sharpening is impossible for me. Reddit says it's easy to learn and useful skill for the rest of your life, but not for me at this point.

Minosharp is basically a pull sharpener with whetstone wheels that imitates the action of sharpening a knife on a whet stone, because of the forced angle the wheel is placed at. And since you're basically grinding on whetstone you will lose as much metal as your would on a whetstone. All you have to do is point your knife down and you'll get a knife that can comfortably pass the shave test.

So you want to sharpen on the blue whetstone, till you build up the angle for the medium and fine whetstone. You really only need to do this process on your first time through with the dull blade. After that just stick with the medium and fine course whetstone, coming back to the blue stone when you feel like it's necessary. The packaging says 7-9 strokes on each stone is all you need, but really I find 20-30 strokes back on forth for the medium and fine wheel is the optimal number for the sharpest edge.

Cons: Because of the way the wheels are set your right side of the knife will hit the right wheel first, before the left, so the right side of the knife tip won't be sharpened because the knife didnt have the support from the left side of the wheel to grind on the right side of the wheel. Visa versa for the back edge of the knife.

You can't sharpen a super thick knife, with their guided plastic system. I have a smith and wesson guthook knife that I can't sharpen in the slot because the spine is just huge for durability reasons, but your standard kitchen knife will easily fit the slots.

So anyways I wanted to bring more light to an option for the average homeowner that doesn't want to learn to how to sharpen, but also don't want to destroy their knife with a standard pull sharpener.