Tag: keep your knives sharp
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How To Fix Dry Green Buffing Compound
Your green polishing compound might dry out and be hard to apply to your strop or buffing wheel. Note: this is not a common problem when the compound is in a wax medium.
An easy fix if it does happen though is to mix it with a little bit of olive oil.
Before
It just will not load the strop.
After
Add some olive oil and try again:
Enjoy,
PK
Here are some more knife sharpening and general knife info:
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What Is A Chantry Knife Sharpener?
I treated myself to this chantry knife sharpener after seeing it in one of Scott Rea’s videos titled ‘tools of a master butcher’. If it is good enough for the Scott Rea Project then it is is good enough for yours truly. 🙂
Remember that we are not putting an edge on the knife here, we are simply uncurling that edge so that we have no “blunt” parts (caused by misalignment) hence making the knife cut easlier.
I have an excellent hand steel (links to videos on how to use them below) and my pride and joy is my 25cm Victorinox Swibo Rigid Butchers Knife. As a beginner though I can sometimes do more harm with my steel than good.
With the chantry knife sharpener the angle of the built in mini rolling steels remains perfect with every pull through of the knife. I can attest that after a few pulls the knives are extremely sharp and that means they are safer to use (with all due respect).
Enjoy and be careful,
PK
Here are some more knife sharpening and general knife info posts:
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