This easy-to-use honing rod gently realigns the cutting edges of your Shun cutlery, enabling you to maintain the razor-sharp blades between sharpenings. The Kanso honing steel features two surfaces: smooth for day-to-day honing and micro-ribbed for weekly honing. Plus, a built-in angle on the handle makes it easy to hone knives to the correct 16° Shun angle.

Shun’s Kanso series is based on the Zen philosophy of simplicity—removing anything that doesn’t matter and