Very unusual Sharpening Steel

[JD Spydo]

I have a Sharpening steel that I got from the F. Dick company the same time I got my smooth steel. This is one like I've never seen before or since I bought it. It is called the F. Dick MULTICUT.

It is somewhat flat with a slight oval shape to it. It has squared off grooves ( flutes) running the length of the steel itself. It is one steel that I have had that truly does have some ability to abrade. It really seems to work well on long fixed blades.

I have tried to get information on it but F. Dick out of Germany just doesn't seem to respond to their English speaking customers It seems to me that this steel may have been designed for "Burr Removal".

If any of you have encountered this tool I would like to know more about it.

 

[DarrylS]

I have a Sharpening steel that I got from the F. Dick company the same time I got my smooth steel. This is one like I've never seen before or since I bought it. It is called the F. Dick MULTICUT.

I have tried to get information on it but F. Dick out of Germany just doesn't seem to respond to their English speaking customers It seems to me that this steel may have been designed for "Burr Removal".

If any of you have encountered this tool I would like to know more about it.

...If it's this one that I found in a very quick search, they are still being made and can be found easily. Run a quick search on the net and you should come up with a ton of sales sources who may be able to give you a lot of information...
http://www.cutleryandmore.com/details.asp?SKU=3796

 

[JD Spydo]

...If it's this one that I found in a very quick search, they are still being made and can be found easily. Run a quick search on the net and you should come up with a ton of sales sources who may be able to give you a lot of information...
http://www.cutleryandmore.com/details.asp?SKU=3796

Well thanks for the tip DarrylS I am still hoping that some of you here have either used one or even one of you Metallurgy buffs has probably even tested one.

With these precision, squared off grooves it sure does a great job of taking micro-dings out of big fixed blades. And it does a good steeling job on Carbon Steel and Stainless steel both.

That puppy wasn't cheap though. I think I forked out about $80 for it. And that was from a Wholesale house I bet at least one of you in the culinary field has encountered one of these Dick Multicut steels

 

[Jared Stenoien]

It sounds to me like you have a file not a steel steels dont abrade the edge really, they just realign it. abrading it pretty much defeats the whole point of using a steel and if it got bad enough that I'd have to use something like that then I'd use a stone that I could pick up for <$10 at the store

 

[Cliff Stamp]

The F. Dick is a really fine, very fine, grooved steel, not in the same class as the common butchers steel. It is used very light and is usually highly praised by those who like to steel highly polished edges.

-Cliff

 

[RobStanley]

I have a Sharpening steel that I got from the F. Dick company the same time I got my smooth steel. This is one like I've never seen before or since I bought it. It is called the F. Dick MULTICUT.

It is somewhat flat with a slight oval shape to it. It has squared off grooves ( flutes) running the length of the steel itself. It is one steel that I have had that truly does have some ability to abrade. It really seems to work well on long fixed blades.

I have tried to get information on it but F. Dick out of Germany just doesn't seem to respond to their English speaking customers It seems to me that this steel may have been designed for "Burr Removal".

If any of you have encountered this tool I would like to know more about it.

I have one! It's great. I have an F Dick boning knife too. The sharpening steel works well on most knives. I have 3 butchers in my family and they all carry F Dick gear, this steel being part of the kit. They use the stuff all day, every day and it never fails them.

 

[JD Spydo]

I have one! It's great. I have an F Dick boning knife too. The sharpening steel works well on most knives. I have 3 butchers in my family and they all carry F Dick gear, this steel being part of the kit. They use the stuff all day, every day and it never fails them.

The corners on the groove (flutes) themselves actually does have an abrasive like action that sort of burnishes and deburrs as well as to some extent does abrade the surface.

I've just never seen any sharpening steel that is anything at all like it. I am surprised that some of you guys out of the culinary and meat cutting trades haven't encountered this sharpening tool.

Because it's like Rob is saying it is a very versatile sharpening tool. Check out all of F. Dick's stuff on the web folks. All of their stuff is high quality.