What’s your ‘Heston’ experience?

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    That’s because they are not for sharpening, they are for honing the blade.

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      Right, you get it. I know what honing is, but could you explain for like, all the other losers? Not me, though, I’m down with the kids.

      • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world
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        Ha! He doesn’t know what honing means! It’s so obvious, you should know what it means. Can anyone bother to explain it to him? I would, but honestly I don’t have time for that. Too busy right now.

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        1 year ago

        Haha no worries. Think of the edge of a knife as slowly folding on itself when you’re using it, honing is used to straitened the edge and make it “sharp” again. Sharpening is when you remove material to create a new edge on the knife, usually with something abrasive.

        After a while a knife is just dull and has no edge to be straitened anymore, at that point honing is useless.

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          Thank you, I always assumed those honing steels were actually removing material like a whetstone would, but that makes more sense with it being for just straightening the edge back out

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            My understanding is that It is really similar to honing with the additional purpose of polishing the blade by using a material that is just so slightly abrasive.

            I’m open to correction and addition on this as I’m no stropper.