[eastforker]

With a good steel and know how to use it. I have one about a hundred years old and it gets my kitchen knives like a razor.

[nomorelurker]

“With a good steel and know how to use it.”

I use a steel for touch up on kitchen knives after anything but very lite use. If I get a good edge I try to keep it that way. Good sharpening steels are hard to find these days. I have never mastered using a stone. I have resorted to successively finer sandpaper that works for me. Lawn mower blades garden tools I use a file.