What’s your ‘Heston’ experience?

  • SpeakinTelnet
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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.

    • all-knight-party@kbin.cafe
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      1 year ago

      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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        1 year ago

        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.