Bought a "sharpening tool" never to be used

[spict]

I think If you have a good knife to start with and use it properly, there's hardly ever a case when it's not sharp enough for you.

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

What do you mean by this.

 

[Danke42]

What do you mean by this.

Buy more knives

 

[DavidABQ]

Buy more knives

Hmmm, not a bad idea. When a knife gets dull you turn it into a safe queen and buy a new knife.

 

[Obsessed with Edges]

I get much more enjoyment out of buying a tired old knife that's been well-used but not abused, and clearly in need of a proper resharpening. That's when I make it my own with a brand new edge and give it a whole new life. There's a lot of satisfaction in that for me. I used to buy a lot of knives and accumulated 200+ of them over many years' time. But that gets expensive after awhile. And that's when I shifted my perspective toward doing as much as I could do to improve how my knives cut.

Edges that don't need frequent resharpening can be made that way by altering the existing edge geometry, often going thinner behind the edge and more acute in angle. That's when the sharpening process itself can teach an awful lot about what the knife and the steel are really capable of doing - almost always better than the default factory grind it came with.

 

[Blues]

What do you mean by this.

You had to ask didn't ya...

 

[tiguy7]

When a knife goes dull, buy a new one. When a car’s ashtray gets full, buy a new car.