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I can vouch for the Horl 2 sharpener, my daughters bought one for me for Fathers Day.
I love it because it is quick and easy to use and looks decent enough to leave out where it is easy to grab. I have used the Lansky sharpening kit previously and whilst it is brilliant to use it takes time to set up, not much but not quick enough to just quickly get an edge back.
The Horl magnets hold the blade firm enough, longer blades may need a finger towards the end to support it but not difficult, I sharpened two of my knives to the 15 degree angle and the other rough & ready blades to the 20 degree angle.
I had a go on a really blunt knife and that took around fifteen to twenty minutes to get a decent edge back, the others were not bad and only took between a few & several minutes.
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I already use a bench grinder with mdf discs one with silicon carbide grit, the other with a polishing compound for sharpening bog standard knives (eg sebatier). It is great and super quick and easy and gives me shaving sharp blades in seconds. But it is not so good on harder steels (eg a couple of pocket knives) and I wouldn’t want to use it on hard steel Japanese blades. It means I don’t give a fuck about dishwashing the standard kitchen knives as it takes 15 minutes 3 times a year to keep them all super bastard sharp.
I have a couple of whetstones but it appears to take ages and technique is not dialled. So I wouldn’t use it on fancy knives. The Horl system appears to be good but on Reddit sharpening threads the utter knife geeks claim they can all do better with a whetstone. I have too many areas of nerdy specialism (food, coffee, cycling, yoga etc) and spending time learning a skill when it appears there is a tool that can achieve a very good but not perfect result seems more than acceptable to me. I have yet to see anyone say they made their knives worse using the Horl system, but know lots of people who have rounded blades by using whetstones badly.
I can now justify the Horl purchase as a research project for the benefit of my fixeh friends.