Regarding knife sharpening steels, Scott wrote:
 
>   WR Case always made the best, IMO. Sharp fast, you don't have to go 
> over your edge 121 times to make a difference.

There's a German make called "F. Dick"that makes sharpening steels in levels of
fine-ness.  When you want to "get German", i.e. go into high precision mode, on
a knife, you steel it first with the regular grade steel and then with the fine
steel.
 
I have an antique F. Dick fine steel of a very large size which I use to put on
the finishing touches.
 
John Ruth
Thinking of a long-dead German-American childhood neighbor artist lady who
introduced me to the phrase "To get German on something".
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