SC - Sharpening tools (Was water bugs)

[Elaine Koogler]

My knife sharpener is a very fine one...either my lord or a very good friend of
ours.  They both do an excellent job, and keep my knives in wonderful condition!
Funny thing...they don't seem to wear out either!

Kiri  ;-)

Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

> CorwynWdwd at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > I use a little plastic and metal sharpener I bought at Walmart. It's sold
> > under several brand names depending on if you get it in the craft or the
> > camping or the kitchen sections. There's a plastic handle with a finger guard
> > made of metal and two pieces of some metal that look like scissors tips.
> > Strangely enough, it's one of the few things actually made in the USA I've
> > found at Walmart. Works Okay and it's easy to carry around.
>
> I have one of those, and will occasionally use it at home, or my lady
> wife will. When I need to repair a badly sharpened knife, or a chipped
> edge, I have a series of Arkansas whetstones that I use (normally
> three). For everyday professional use I have a gizmo that looks like one
> of those folding Asian butterfly knives, with a diamond-dust-coated
> "steel" inside. It does a fine job, used judiciously in conjunction with
> an actual deburring steel.
>
> I also have, somewhere, one of those electric knife-grinders, but it
> seems not only to be a sort of evasion of the issue but also to eat
> knives at an alarming rate, so I haven't used it in years. I own a
> strop, but it seems unnecessarily anal-retentive, so I use it only for
> razors and such.
>
> I find it interesting that I actually used to work with a Swedish cook
> whose name was Par, and he told me that all my knives were too sharp,
> that that was a good way to hurt yourself. He said blunt knives were
> definitely the way to go. He also was genetically risotto-challenged,
> but that's another story. I wonder if he was our Par's Evil Twin?
>
> Adamantius
> --
> Phil & Susan Troy
>
> troy at asan.com
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