• Leet@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    Honing doesn’t remove material. If you sharpen too often your knives wear down real fast

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      4 days ago

      Honing does remove material. It shears off the ragged edge grains, and presses the other grains into alignment.

      Anytime you use a hone, you can run your fingertips along the knife edge and gather the removed grains of material.

      It’s a very small detail but to say that a hone does not damage a knife or remove material isn’t 100% right.