enow.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: work sharp sharpener near me directions location zip code

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Honing steel - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honing_steel

    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 ...

  3. Knife sharpening - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_sharpening

    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 ...

  4. Sharpening stone - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpening_stone

    The term is based on the word "whet", which means to sharpen a blade, [2] [3] not on the word "wet". The verb nowadays to describe the process of using a sharpening stone for a knife is simply to sharpen, but the older term to whet is still sometimes used, though so rare in this sense that it is no longer mentioned in, for example, the Oxford Living Dictionaries.

  5. Pencil sharpener - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil_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. Pencil sharpeners may be operated manually or by an electric motor. It is common for many sharpeners to have a casing around them, which can be removed for emptying the pencil shavings ...

  6. Sharpening - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpening

    Sharpening. Sharpening is the process of creating or refining the edge joining two non-coplanar faces into a converging apex, thereby creating an edge of appropriate shape on a tool or implement designed for cutting. Sharpening is done by removing material on an implement with an abrasive substance harder than the material of the implement ...

  7. Grindstone - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grindstone

    The Knife-grinder by Goya shows a man using a portable grindstone. A grindstone, also known as grinding stone, is a sharpening stone used for grinding or sharpening ferrous tools, used since ancient times. Tools are sharpened by the stone's abrasive qualities that remove material from the tool through friction in order to create a fine edge.

  8. Evening Shade, Arkansas - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evening_Shade,_Arkansas

    72532. Area code. 870. FIPS code. 05-22360. GNIS feature ID. 2403582 [2] Evening Shade is a city in southwest Sharp County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 428 in 2020.

  9. Ethridge, Tennessee - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethridge,_Tennessee

    Geography. Ethridge is located at 35°19′16″N 87°18′8″W (35.321229, -87.302304). [8] The town is situated at the intersection of U.S. Route 43 and a county road, Red Hill Road (signed as Main Street in Ethridge). Lawrenceburg lies a few miles to the south along US 43, and Mount Pleasant lies several miles to the north.

  1. Ads

    related to: work sharp sharpener near me directions location zip code