• Krudler@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Honing does remove material. It shears off the ragged edge grains, and presses the other grains into alignment.

    Anytime you use a hone, you can run your fingertips along the knife edge and gather the removed grains of material.

    It’s a very small detail but to say that a hone does not damage a knife or remove material isn’t 100% right.

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      4 hours ago

      Oh I thought it just aligns the edge. I guess it does remove an amount of material. But I think it should be a lot less than sharpening