Owner's manual
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How to use the appliance
Your Andrew James knife sharpener will sharpen carbon, alloy and stainless
steel knives.
It is designed to sharpen kitchen knives and most sporng knives.
Do not aempt to sharpen scissors, serrated electric knives, or any blade
that does not t freely in the blade guides.
For best results, moisten the boom of the sucon feet of the knife
sharpener and place the unit on a at stable surface. Connect the power
plug to a suitable power outlet and turn the unit on by pressing the ON/OFF
switch.
The knife sharpener has two stages of sharpening, for precision grinding and
ne honing. The precision slots are situated on the le of the ON/OFF switch
and the ne honing slots are situated on the right of the ON/OFF switch.
Each funcon has two slots to sharpen each side of the knife. When using
the knife sharpener on your knives for the rst me, begin with the precision
grinding.
Precision grinding
1. Precision grinding begins by sharpening
and creang a precision angled edge.
2. Slowly draw the knife towards yourself
through both blade guide slots in stage 1
(Fig 1) three mes, alternang passes
between the two slots.
3. The knifes cung edge should be kept
parallel with the table or counter top (Fig 1) and drawn through the slots
without using any downward pressure. To sharpen the p, li up the knife
handle slightly as the curved poron of the blade is drawn through the blade
guides.
4. When drawing the blade through the blade guides, allow approx. one
second for every two inches of blade. For example 6 inch knife = 3 seconds
for each pass.