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Peter A

In article >,
says...
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> Peter A wrote:
> >
> > Not true. If you know what you are doing, one stone is all you need. If
> > you do not know you are doing, 20 stones are not enough.
> >
> Sharpening is a process of grinding, honing and polishing with
> progressively finer and finer abrasives. Light sharpening may be
> accomplished with only one fine stone, but a complete job in a
> reasonable time requires 3 or more stones AND knowing what you are doing.
>
> Steve
>

Oh claptrap. We are not talking about a knife that has no edge at all -
all knives start sharp, or at least reasonably so. Keeping them sharp
requires only one stone. As proof I will mention our set of three fillet
knives, 20+ years old, sharp as razors, and sharpened on the same single
Arkansas stone for all those years. If I wanted to waste money and time
I could do it with three stones, but why would I?

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Peter Aitken