Originally Posted by
Magpie
I sharpen the knives for the cafe in town. keeps me in free coffee and tortes. Every time I get a knife back, its destroyed! I have talked with the cooks over and over about using a steel, and none of them, not even the ones that have actually gone to a school, have ever known how to properly use one.
The last one had one of those 2ft long "diamond coated" steels, and without fail he would kill every edge i put on a knife, and complain that i was doing a poor sharpening job, or that "the knife has been sharpened too many times, its into the soft steel now and needs replaced"
here at home, I have an F Dick as well. Not as nice as yours though! Its pretty damned smooth, and my personal favorite