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Old 21-01-2009, 10:20 PM
Bigal Bigal is offline
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Originally Posted by Bob Hobden View Post
"chili-girl" wrote ...
Any ideas


For any sharpening job, from kitchen knives to secateurs I use the folding
stones from...
http://www.dmtsharp.com/
You will see one of the folding stones at the bottom left of one of the
pictures.
It's a green one therefore a honing stone. Red is for sharpening.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
The honing stones are diamond impregnated and are colour coded. Blue is a coarse grade and OK for cleaning up a badly blunted blade. Red will give you a good sharp edge for general use. Green is ultra fine and in itself might give you the fine edge that you are looking for, if not, you will need a leather strop as used for sharpening cut throad razors to finish it off.

Bigal