The Yaxell Gou Tungsten Honing Steel offers superior wear resistance. Tungsten Carbide will accommodate and maintain a wide variety steel compositions. Often a knife's edge will bend or roll slightly from normal use, after running it across the honing steel it will re-align and straighten the knife edge, placing a sharp edge back onto the knife blade. Yaxell combines the best of advanced technology with the unsurpassed knowledge and expertise of traditional craftsmen. Yaxell continues to pursue new possibilities for kitchen in the new era, and to work on maintaining and improving manufacturing technologies to produce the highest quality products.