Sheldon wrote:
> [snip] ...one could probably do light touch ups at home with one of
> those fercocktah diamond hones that idiots use to ruin perfectly good
> steel cutlery... diamond hones were developed for dressing fully
> hardened tool steels and carbides, not the relatively soft steel used
> for cutlery, soft steel will load up with diamond particles and then in
> use will continue to accellerate dulling itself forever, the loaded
> diamond particles can never be removed... such a knife will literally
> destroy itself and a knife steel... never switch a diamond honed blade
> back to a knife steel. [snip]

Where does this idea about diamond particles loading up the knife come
from? Source? -aem