My personal favorite way to sharpen (or at least hone) knives is a ceramic
stick followed by a sharpening steel or burnisher.

Doc

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:50 PM, James Thompson  wrote:

> OOOOOHH! OOOOHH! I have a wonderful suggestion for kitchen knives. I have
> one of those diamond coated rods that looks like a knife burnisher with a
> handle. I use it to put an edge on my kitchen knives, and I follow it with
> a burnisher.
>
> I never liked using stones on large kitchen knives, as it is cumbersome to
> me. The diamond sharpening rod is fast and it gets every bit of the blade
> sharp, almost like magic.
>
> This is very important to me because no matter how much I whine and cry,
> SWMBO will always put a knife in the sink as soon as she is finished using
> it. This invariable dulls the knife, at least for me. She seems oblivious
> to a knife being dull, but I just can't use one unless it is SHARP!!! And I
> know without a doubt that every time I pick one up it will be dull. But I
> can fix that quickly and easily. It's easier than doing battle.
>
>
> On Nov 21, 2012, at 11:50 AM, John Ruth wrote:
>
> >
> > GG's
> >
> >
> >
> > Somebody asked "What more could one ask for?" in an oilstone lubricant.
> >
> >
> >
> > The missing qualtity is non-toxicity and freedom from clinging taste &
> odor so that one might stone a kitchen knife without having to wash the
> daylights out of it afterward to get that WD-40 or Marvel Mystery Oil smell
> off of it.
> >
> >
> >
> > So the idea choice is thinned mineral oil. I'm just not sure what to
> thin it with.
> >
> >
> >
> > Then again, perhaps I am merely depriving myself of an excuse to own two
> sets of stones, one set for the shop and one set for the kitchen.
> >
> >
> >
> > And, as an aside, I learned long ago that fooling around with aerosol
> cans that have lost their spray head is a recipe for comic outcomes that
> aren't gong to seem particularly funny when they happen.  DAMHIKT !!!
> >
> >
> >
> > John Ruth
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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