Ceramic Vs Diamond Sharpening Rod
If it makes a difference the blade is damascus steel.
Ceramic vs diamond sharpening rod. Find out how the different materials affect your knives and what to look for in a honing rod. The turn box family is a very stable and compact knife sharpening system. Anyhow i was wondering if i should go with a ceramic or steel honing rod. Still ceramic is gentle enough not to do anything too drastic to your blade in the process so it s a nice.
Wusthof 10 inch sharpening steel. The turn box family of knife sharpeners is also great for outdoorsmen on the go because it is lightweight and stores easily into a backpack. The steel and ceramic honing rods may have longitudinal ridges whereas the diamond coated steels are smooth but will be embedded with abrasive diamond particles. Diamond sharpening rods are an excellent complement or alternative to the ceramic sharpening rods.
I think for now i ll let a pro actually sharpen the knife since the knife sharpening sets are fairly expensive and i don t want to ruin the knife. Diamond rods field sharpener ceramic rod cleaning eraser. Many of these rods are made out of alumina ceramic. Any other considerations i should look at when honing this blade.
Description diamond ceramic 4 rod turn box knife sharpener. The rods can be round square or triangular as long as the knife has a smooth surface to slide along. Ceramic rods create a more polished edge and diamond rods simply speed up the already speedy process. Sharpening rods are two rods set in a base at a specific angle 30 degrees for the ones i use.
Photo by flickr member matt feifarek under creative commons. Ceramic steels which should maybe be called ceramics not steels are capable of rubbing off a teeny tiny amount of metal from your knives as you hone them which you can immediately see as gray streaks on the white ceramic rod this means that they have a slight sharpening effect.