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I have never been able to get a lasting edge with a dog bone on stainless knives. The ceramic is too fine and produces a microscopic wire edge every time, no matter how fine of an edge I start with.
I used one for years to finish sharpening. The edge would come out hair popping sharp, but would dull WAY too soon into a very unusable blunt edge. I finally realized that the super fine ceramic just seemed to grind off enough steel to get a wire edge that was almost invisible, but not abrade the edge clean, so I skipped the dogbone step and just stropped a bit more. Now my edges will stay as sharp as the metal, heat treat, and use will allow.
BTW, I am talking about the triangular lansky dog bone. The rod shaped one is worse. It produces the same annoying results, and also causes micro chips in the wire edge bacause the ceramic has little pits and bumps all over it.
My .02 worth. . . .
I used one for years to finish sharpening. The edge would come out hair popping sharp, but would dull WAY too soon into a very unusable blunt edge. I finally realized that the super fine ceramic just seemed to grind off enough steel to get a wire edge that was almost invisible, but not abrade the edge clean, so I skipped the dogbone step and just stropped a bit more. Now my edges will stay as sharp as the metal, heat treat, and use will allow.
BTW, I am talking about the triangular lansky dog bone. The rod shaped one is worse. It produces the same annoying results, and also causes micro chips in the wire edge bacause the ceramic has little pits and bumps all over it.
My .02 worth. . . .
