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Originally Posted by Realtor 1
Am I the only one who is brutal at trying to sharpen their own knives? I got my knife yesterday from Safeway and couldnt believe how sharp it was....reminding me that my current set could be this sharp if I knew what I was doing when sharpening.
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Originally Posted by Drury18
The trick I was taught is to keep the sharpener on the table. Don't hold it and the knife, you won't get the angle down unless you've been doing it for years. Place the sharpener on the table, put one hand on the handle the other at the tip of the knife as far from the blade as you can and then slide it down the sharpener with both hands on an angle. And that speed isn't an issue when sharpening, it's the angle so if you go slower at the right angle you will sharpen it better then fast at the wrong angle.
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Originally Posted by Rerun
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You guys are all talking about honing. Honing is very different from sharpening knives. You will never be able to get a dull knife as sharp as a new knife or an expensive knife through honing.
Honing doesn't do anything to help a dull knife. All honing does is straighten out any imperfections in the blade and is more and more ineffective over time. A dull knife has been blunted by usage and must be sharpened by the removal of material by proper sharpening (whet stone, grinder, professional tool, etc.)