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Usual advice is that you need to straighten your blade every week or two and then you can sharpen it every 6 months or even a year (depends on usage of course).
by Jataman606 1y ago
Usual advice is that you need to straighten your blade every week or two and then you can sharpen it every 6 months or even a year (depends on usage of course). To straighten the blade you use honing rod which many people mistake for sharpener.
- omnicognate 1y agoI have a steel honing rod but it's never seemed to have much effect. Perhaps my technique isn't right. I also have a ceramic sharpening rod, which I use to sharpen my breadknife. That's very effective, but different as it actually removes steel. I give my straight-edged knives a few strokes on each side on a 3000 grit whetstone every weekend, which seems to keep them nicely sharp. That will slowly wear them down but it hasn't done so noticeably yet so I expect the knives to last many years.