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2. Knife sharpening - Wikipedia

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   A railway camp cook sharpens a knife blade on a stone wheel, 1927. Knife sharpening is the process of making a knife or similar tool sharp by grinding against a hard, rough surface, typically a stone, [1] or a flexible surface with hard particles, such as sandpaper. Additionally, a leather razor strop, or strop, is often used to straighten and ...

3. Pencil sharpener - Wikipedia

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   A manual prism sharpener generates long fan-shaped shavings Video of a mechanical pencil sharpener, showing gearing and helical sharpening blades video showing a manual prism sharpener A pencil sharpener (or pencil pointer , or in Ireland a parer or topper ) [ 1 ] is a tool for sharpening a pencil 's writing point by shaving away its worn surface.

4. Honing steel - Wikipedia

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   A honing steel on a cutting board Common steel for use in households SEM images of the cross-section of a blade before (dull) and after (sharp) honing with a smooth rod [1]. A honing steel, sometimes referred to as a sharpening steel, whet steel, sharpening stick, sharpening rod, butcher's steel, and chef's steel, is a rod of steel, ceramic or diamond-coated steel used to restore keenness to ...

5. Charlotte, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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   Charlotte (/ ˈ ʃ ɑːr l ə t / ⓘ SHAR-lət) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the county seat of Mecklenburg County.The population was 874,579 at the 2020 census, [10] making Charlotte the 15th-most populous city in the United States, the seventh-most populous city in the South, and the second-most populous city in the Southeast behind Jacksonville, Florida.

6. Sharpening stone - Wikipedia

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   Roughly sharpening a blunt edge 1000: 8 μm: Smoothing a rough edge into a medium edge 4,000: 4 μm: Smoothing a medium edge into a sharp edge for cutting meat 8,000: 2 μm: Further smoothing a sharp edge for cutting fish or vegetables (sinews in meat will bend an edge this sharp) 30,000: 0.5 μm: Polishing an edge to a mirror-smooth (but ...

7. List of companies in Charlotte - Wikipedia

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   Carolina Foods. Carolina Weekly Newspaper Group. Cato Corporation. Centene Corporation – 61. CertusBank. Charlotte Research Institute. Charter Communications. Chip Ganassi Racing. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated.