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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 ...
Wa-giri; round cut, cut into round slices. Hangetsu-giri; half-moon cut, cut into round slices which are cut in half. Aname-giri ; diagonal cut, cut at a 45-degree angle to make oval slices. Icho-giri; gingko leaf cut, cut into round slices which are cut into quarters. Koguchigiri; small edge cuts into tiny round slices.
In cooking, a chef's knife, also known as a cook's knife, is a cutting tool used in food preparation. The chef's knife was originally designed primarily to slice and disjoint large cuts of beef. Today it is the primary general utility knife for most Western cooks. A European chef's knife generally has a blade 20 centimetres (8 inches) in length ...
A goniometer is an instrument that either measures an angle or allows an object to be rotated to a precise angular position. The term goniometry derives from two Greek words, γωνία (gōnía) ' angle ' and μέτρον (métron) ' measure '. [1] The protractor is a commonly used type in the fields of mechanics, engineering, and geometry.
Sizing of a standard straight razor is usually close to 3 inches of blade length, but this does vary. Blades are described by the depth from spine to edge, measured in eights of an inch. 3/8 is a very narrow razor mostly used for detail work, with 5/8 and 6/8 being the most commonly seen sizes.
A diamond knife blade used for cutting ultrathin sections (typically 70 to 350 nm) for transmission electron microscopy The cutting edge of a disposable blade for a microtome under a microscope The selection of microtome knife blade profile depends upon the material and preparation of the samples, as well as the final sample requirements (e.g ...
Some knives have the entire blade tempered while others just treat the edge of the blade. Schrock said having only the edge quenched during the cooling process creates two levels of hardness.
A drawknife (drawing knife, draw shave, shaving knife) [1] is a traditional woodworking hand tool used to shape wood by removing shavings. It consists of a blade with a handle at each end. The blade is much longer (along the cutting edge) than it is deep (from cutting edge to back edge). It is pulled or "drawn" (hence the name) toward the user.