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Default Is this a knife sharpener?

"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:25:37 GMT, JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
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>> "Felines&Fuzzbutts" > wrote in message
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>>>> It's a "steel". It *is* used to freshen up the edge of (non-serrated!)
>>>> knives. Not really a sharpener, exactly, but it will give you a better
>>>> edge when you need it. Just run your blades at a very shallow angle
>>>> down
>>>> the length of the steel, as if shaving bark off a stick. A couple
>>>> strokes on each side is all it takes.
>>>> A die-hard knife person would use the steel as the final touch after
>>>> actual sharpening of a blade, I believe...- Hide quoted text -
>>>
>>> THANK YOU, Dave!! I am SO tired of people who incorrectly advise
>>> others to use a steel to "sharpen" their knives. I worked in a knife
>>> shop for several years, and learned early that a steel merely re-
>>> aligns the "burr" on the edge of knife -- it DOES NOT SHARPEN. I
>>> can't tell you how many people we had come into the store and raise
>>> hell because their "sharpener" never worked. Sometimes, even after
>>> we'd explain it to them, they still wouldn't get it.
>>>
>>> Ah, well....
>>>
>>> ~Eri in TX

>>
>> Umm...you worked in a knife shop, and you knew those things about the
>> purpose of a steel, but you did not recognize a steel that was right in
>> front of your face?
>>
>> Something about this scenario is wrong.

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> She's not the OP.


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