“9” Honing Steel Knife Sharpener with Sandblasted Rod & Wood Handle – Professional Balanced Sharpening Rod for Chefs, Ideal Kitchen Gift Accessories”

This honing steel is very well made, but the surface is very aggressive, so you may want to test it on some of your lower quality blades before using on some of your more favorite ones. The grit is still fine, but coarse enough to not simply set the edge back to center, but can even take off some steel if you go too hard with it. This actually ended up being fairly helpful, as a couple of my knives were in need of sharpening, and this helped set a new edge on them (fortunately I know how to do this).I have a second steel that is more traditional, so I use this as kind of a step-one of three (this steel, regular steel, leather strop) for my knife maintenance.