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2. Scissor grinder - Wikipedia

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   Knife and scissor grinder sharpening a knife on a water-cooled grinding wheel, 2018. A scissor grinder (German: Scherenschleifer ), sometimes also scissor and knife grinder or knife and scissor grinder , for short also knife grinder, is a craftsman who sharpens and repairs blunt knives, scissors and other cutting tools.

3. Knife sharpening - Wikipedia

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   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 polish an edge.

4. Grinding machine - Wikipedia

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   Its uses include shaping tool bits or various tools that need to be made or repaired. Bench grinders are manually operated. Cylindrical grinder, which includes both the types that use centers and the centerless types. A cylindrical grinder may have multiple grinding wheels. The work piece is rotated and fed past the wheel(s) to form a cylinder.

5. Sharpening - Wikipedia

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   A roadside knife grinder on rue Faidherbe (11e arrondissement) in Paris. He is one of the few knife grinders who still practise in France. Sharpening tools. A number of blade sharpeners operate a mobile business, [1] [2] traveling to their customers locations, often in highly equipped vehicles. Less common in developed nations.

6. Sharpening stone - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Grindstone - Wikipedia

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   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.