Thinning knife blades

biker.chef · Posted: Jan 08 2017 Post subject: Thinning knife blades

Ever hear of knife thinning?
It came up on a cooking forum. The idea is that as you sharpen
your knife the edge moves up on the blade and the blade gets thicker.
Eventually even if the blade is sharp it doesn't cut as smooth
because its too thick. see pic

I've never heard of knife thinning before. It seems to me that if
this is a real problem there would be sharpeners that thin the knife.
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k.a.m. · Posted: Jan 08 2017 Post subject:

I truly have never heard of this but I can see if you do not know how to properly use or maintain your edges and you excessively sharpen then instead of just honing the edge you could wear out a blade.
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jess · Posted: Jan 08 2017 Post subject:

JMHO but a lot of people cannot put a proper edge on anything sharp & even fewer know how to maintain one...

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jess · Posted: Jan 09 2017 Post subject:

I am a nut for keeping things sharp - hell I even sharpen my shovels.
Axes, mower blades, chisels, & knives all need to be sharpened differently..