On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 21:50:49 -0600, Pete > wrote:

>I have some Henckels knives and a sharpening rod.
>
>Are there any suggestions or websites to help me sharpen these?
>
>I cook a lot, and use the sharpening rod.. but the knives are not
>getting any sharper.

Perhaps you aren't tilting the knife enough. You have to feel the edge
contact the rod, just barely. What the rod does is burnish the edge
back straight where it has bent over.

It also wears away the edge so after many years you may find a
concavity in the edge. In that case grinding is necessary.




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