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234575 James Thompson <oldmillrat@m...> 2012‑11‑21 Re: Flattening Benchstones
I am pretty sure the diamonds on my stick are 400 grit. Anyway they are fast. I 
will ever worry about running out of kitchen knives because I started collecting
 good ones way back when, and I have enough for several lifetimes.

I would feel differently if I only had a few, then I'd be babying them.

On Nov 21, 2012, at 2:32 PM, John Holladay wrote:

> > My personal favorite way to sharpen (or at least hone) knives is a ceramic s
tick 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 on
e 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 m
e. 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, SWM
BO 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 bei
ng dull, but I just can't use one unless it is SHARP!!! And I know without a dou
bt 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 & odo
r so that one might stone a kitchen knife without having to wash the daylights o
ut 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 s
ets 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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