...don't keep a-soppin'-


I have been trying to learn to hone my Dovo Bismarck for about a year now and finally had a small revelation. Sometimes I have noticed that I just couldn't get the blade to make a smooth lap up and down the hone. It would stick, it would hop, it just wasn't working. I figured it was just bad technique. Turned out to be the fact that I was using a kitchen towel to wipe off the hone between passes, and it was leaving invisible fibers behind on the hone. A quick rinse in the sink fixed it.

This may be completely obvious to others but it is kind of embarrassing to think back to how long I have been playing around with this before figuring out that rubbing a soft cotton towel on an abrasive surface just might abrade that towel.