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Sharpening & Care

Keeping an edge — whetstones and honing steels, sharpening angles and stropping, and cleaning, storing and caring for a blade.

Sharpening

Sharpening stone

Sharpening stone

Honing steel

Strop

Knife sharpening

Knife sharpening

Grinding (abrasive cutting)

Grinding (abrasive cutting)

Rust

Patina

Corrosion

Corrosion

Lubrication

Lubrication

Angle grinder

Angle grinder

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