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The KitchenIQ Edge Grip 2-Stage Knife Sharpener is a ten-dollar pull-through that puts a dull kitchen knife back to work: a preset carbide slot for coarse resetting, preset crossed ceramic rods for the finish, and a V-Grip base that hooks over the counter edge. Amazon charged $10.07 for the black 50009 on 2026-09-18 — in stock, fulfilled by Amazon itself, flagged non-returnable — while Smith's store asks $9.99. GSM Outdoors, the Irving, Texas parent whose brand bar carries Cold Steel and SOG alongside Smith's, is the manufacturer of record.
Fit settles the buy, not quality. Fixed preset slots mean one geometry for every knife you own, from a stamped Fibrox 8-inch to whatever serrated bread knife lives in the block; whether that single angle, a carbide stage reserved by design for dull and damaged steel, and a no-returns mail-order purchase suit your kitchen is the whole question.
Our verdict
At $10.07 the Edge Grip is a fair buy for resetting dull straight-edge kitchen knives without learning a stone, provided a single preset angle and Amazon's non-returnable flag are acceptable; whetstone owners already have better.
- A good fit for
- Cooks whose drawer of Western kitchen knives has gone dull and who want a preset pull-through that restores an edge for ten dollars without whetstone practice.
- We would skip it if
- Skip it if you sharpen on stones or rods, if your knives are ground to Asian angles you want kept, or if a no-returns purchase gives you pause.
Reasons to consider it
- Both stages come preset from the factory — crossed carbide blades for quick edge setting on very dull or damaged steel, crossed ceramic rods for the final honing and touch-ups on already sharp knives — so the only skill required is a straight pull
- The trademarked V-Grip base hooks over a counter or table edge to keep long blade tips from dragging across the bench, non-slip rubber feet hold it flat, and the plastic body runs 1.75 by 1 by 3.75 inches at a listed 14.2 grams
- The mechanism has a traceable lineage: Smith's built crossed ceramic sticks in the early 1970s and the 1984 JIFF carbide pull-through before launching the KitchenIQ brand in 2011, under a maker holding nearly 100 patents across 40-plus countries
The compromises
- Neither page publishes the slots' angle, and the brand prints degrees elsewhere — 16 for Asian and 20 for Euro/American knives on its Angle Adjust knob, 35 and 37 combined on its Diamond Pro — so one fixed V serves every blade whether it fits or not
- Straight and serrated blades are both claimed, but no source says which slot takes the bread knife, while the brand's purpose-built serrated slots elsewhere spell out crossed or triangular ceramics designed to sharpen into the serrations
- Amazon's listing is flagged non-returnable — refund or replacement only for damage or defect — and Smith's storefront splits near-identical Edge Grip listings across $8.99, $9.99 and $10.99, so matching the exact listing takes care
What we have not verified: How much steel the coarse carbide stage removes per pass, and what years of carbide resets do to a blade's lifespan, appear in no source on hand — the maker frames carbide as recovery for dull or damaged edges and ceramic as the finish, nothing more. No page publishes the slots' preset angle. Smith's page read $9.99 on three same-day checks while an earlier check of the same address logged $3.99, so the maker price moves within a day and the Amazon price is the stabler anchor. Amazon's three-pack variants list without prices, leaving per-unit cost unverified, and whether the Black/Diamond colorway is the catalog's diamond-rod Deluxe model goes unconfirmed on both pages. The 14.2-gram weight entry in Amazon's spec table has no second source and runs light for a body carrying carbide and ceramic inserts.
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Edge Grip 2-Stage Knife Sharpener (50009)
$10.07 from Amazon at the 2026-09-18 check — in stock, non-returnable — buys carbide coarse and ceramic fine slots preset at the factory, a V-Grip base that hooks the counter edge, and a 1.75-inch plastic body that fits any drawer; Smith's store lists it at $9.99.
Before you buy: Both slots sit at a single angle no page publishes, the serrated claim arrives with no instructions, and returns are limited to items that arrive damaged or defective.
Price checked September 18, 2026. Retailer prices can change.Carbide sets, ceramic finishes
Two slots, two jobs, one factory-set angle each. Draw a very dull or damaged blade through the carbide slot and its crossed blades reset the edge — that is the only job the bullets assign the coarse stage. Follow with the crossed ceramic rods and the fine stage hones: Smith's copy calls it the final edge honing, Amazon's copy calls it polishing and quick touch-ups on already sharp knives. Preset geometry carries the whole pitch on both pages, the proper sharpening angle every time, with the user contributing nothing but a straight pull.
A paper trail sits behind the fixture. Smith's began mining Arkansas novaculite for sharpening stones in 1886, built its first crossed-ceramic-stick sharpener in the early 1970s, and released the JIFF in 1984, a carbide pull-through that sharpened both sides of a blade at once — the ancestry of the two crossed pairs in this ten-dollar body. KitchenIQ arrived as the housewares brand in 2011; the maker now holds nearly 100 patents and sells in over 40 countries as Smith's Consumer Products under GSM Outdoors.
The base that gives it a name
Edge Grip names the bottom. A V-Grip notch drops over the edge of a counter or table so a long blade clears the bench — the stated purpose on the listing is keeping the knife tip from dragging over and damaging counters or blades. Set flat instead, non-slip rubber feet hold the body still while a soft rubber grip gives the holding hand something to squeeze.
Scale is the other selling point. The plastic body runs 1.75 inches long, 1 wide and 3.75 tall; the listing's weight entry reads 14.2 grams, a figure no other page repeats and one that runs light for hardware carrying carbide and ceramic pairs. Either way it disappears into a knife drawer rather than claiming counter space, which is what a tool used once every few months should do.
One angle for every knife
Preset cuts both ways. Neither the listing nor the Smith's page publishes the slots' actual angle, and the brand prints degrees freely elsewhere: its Diamond Pro specs coarse diamond rods at 35 degrees combined and fine triangular ceramic stones at 37, and its Angle Adjust model exists to sharpen the knife to the original factory angle, with 16 degrees marked for Asian knives and 20 for Euro/American right on the knob. A fixed V in the Edge Grip imposes one geometry on all of them.
The serrated claim deserves the same scrutiny. Sharpens straight and serrated blades, say the Smith's features; Straight & Serrated Knives, says the Amazon title — and neither tells you which slot takes the bread knife. Where the brand designs for serrations on purpose, it says so in copy about crossed or triangular ceramics built to sharpen into the serrations. The Edge Grip makes the claim without that geometry or any instruction.
The price maze around one design
Eight cents separate the two headline prices — $10.07 at Amazon, $9.99 at Smith's — so buying direct earns you almost nothing here. What deserves attention instead is the Smith's site itself: near-identical Edge Grip listings at $8.99, $9.99 and $10.99 stacked in one catalog, plus a three-pack at $22.99 that sat out of stock. One design, three prices on one storefront; match the model before paying any of them.
Amazon multiplies the choices. The 50009 sells in black, green, red and a Black/Diamond colorway across one-packs and three-packs, with three more options showing no featured offers; the three-packs list without prices on the page, so a per-unit comparison has nothing to go on yet. The brand's catalog describes a Deluxe Diamond Edge Grip that swaps carbide for diamond-coated rods in the coarse stage — whether Amazon's Diamond colorway is that model, neither page says.
Buyers who should pass
Three buyers end elsewhere: Stone and rod owners: a whetstone or a honing steel maintains an edge without resetting its geometry, and anyone already competent on one has no use for a fixture. Angle keepers: knives ground to Asian angles get the same preset V as a German beater, and Smith's 16-degree knob marking is the tell — buy its adjustable model if that matters. The returns-averse: non-returnable at Amazon means a disappointing unit stays yours unless it arrives damaged or defective.
For the rest — a drawer of dull stamped Western knives, a Fibrox 8-inch that has not met a stone in two years — ten dollars buys the cheap reset that asks only for a straight pull. The mechanism has worked in this lineage since the 1984 JIFF; the purchase risk sits in the returns policy, not the design.
How we put this together
Built from the product pages and listings below, without test scores or results we have not measured. Specifications and prices change, so check the original page for the exact model, current price, delivery, and returns.
- Amazon: KitchenIQ 50009 Edge Grip 2-Stage Knife Sharpener listing (ASIN B001CQTLJM) (opens in a new tab)
- Smith's: Edge Grip 2-Stage Knife Sharpener product page (opens in a new tab)
- KitchenIQ: legacy brand catalog page (opens in a new tab)
- Smith's: Who We Are company history (opens in a new tab)
