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> outside of "occasionally" running it back and forth against a tough fabric. As I understand it, that's technically stropping, not sharpening, but it should b
by LordDragonfang 1y ago
> outside of "occasionally" running it back and forth against a tough fabric.
As I understand it, that's technically stropping, not sharpening, but it should be sufficient to keep an already-sharp blade sharp over the long term as long as the blade doesn't see extremely heavy use.
That said, most people don't strip their blades any more than they sharpen them.
- lazide 1y agoI’ve seen people use knives on glass cutting boards and granite countertops (directly). They quickly became… not knives? Pieces of pointed sheet metal? I don’t know, what do you call a previously perfectly fine knife which now is unable to perform any knife like action?
- aae42 1y agoA dull knife
- lazide 1y agoA dull knife can still cut. I’ve run across ones so dull they couldn’t cut clear tape on packages. Literally just grabs the tape and it rips off . Like I used my finger. At that point, isn’t it more of a prop?
- dotancohen 1y agoIt is an ex-knife. It's just resting? It's pinning for the fjords. Beautiful plumage, ain't it?
- tstrimple 1y agoFor some reason my daughters love to use my decent knives to cut food on top of ceramic plates and they frequently get tomato crushing dull. I bought an overpriced sharpener that had excellent reviews (from actual knife sharpeners not just Amazon customer reviews) that I think may be a counterfeit from Amazon. I think I just need to learn to sharpen well with stones and hide my knives better.