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Subject: Re: knife sharpening question - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 4-Jan-84 15:03:59 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  4 15:03:59 1984
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fortune!marcum    Jan  4 11:41:00 1984


  To sharpen a knife, take the sharpener by the handle in one hande, the
knife (again, by the handle...) in the other.  (I'm right handed, and
take the knife in that hand).  Place the blade against the sharpener,
about a 20 degree angle, as if you were going to whittle the sharpener.
Initial placement of the knife should be so that the base of the blade
(nearest the handle) is at the base of the sharpener (nearest the
handle).

  Draw the knife along the sharpener, as if you were whittling it,
drawing the length of the blade across the sharpener as you move the
knife down the sharpener.

  I change sides with each stroke, drawing the udnerside of the edge
across the top side of the sharpener, then the top side of the edge
along the underside of the sharpener, alternately.

  If I recall, _Joy of Cooking_ has some reasonable illustrations.

Alan M. Marcum		Fortune Systems, Redwood City, California
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