Craft · 6 pages · 12 min
Why honing and sharpening are different steps
Sharpening grinds the bevel back into a wedge, and honing refines or realigns the tip.
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From the opening
Sharpening removes metal to put the bevel back into a real wedge, usually on a coarse stone, a belt, or a wheel. Honing is the later, finer step that polishes the apex or, with a butcher's steel, straightens a rolled tip without grinding the whole face away. The opening covers grinding rebuilds the bevel, a fine stone takes the burr, and a steel mostly realigns the tip.
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Inside
- Grinding rebuilds the bevel
- A fine stone takes the burr
- A steel mostly realigns the tip
- Polish cannot invent a missing apex
- Where the idea stops applying
- A distinction worth keeping
Sources
- Abrasive sharpening of a bevel
- Honing and steeling of the apex