4th December 2011, 01:23 PM
There speaks a man (?woman) who's not used whetstones much! If you're using a stone to sharpen a blade you use in with the blade at as shallow an angle to the blade as possible, leaving a smooth polished surface on the rock. If you're leaving grooves you're also winding up with a blade blunter than a blunt thing.....BAJR, is there any polishing around or within the grooves?
As to the chopping-board idea, you'd be off to the local blacksmith every 5 minutes to get your blade re-sharpened? Note that traditionally chopping boards are actually made of relaively soft non-abrasive materials (wood, then the more recent plastic ones) - the knife has always been the expensive item, the boards are cheap and sacrificial. Now if the stones were being used for chisel-cutting that would be a different matter, but BAJR's grooves don't look like chisel marks, unless the user was extraordinarily inept
As to the chopping-board idea, you'd be off to the local blacksmith every 5 minutes to get your blade re-sharpened? Note that traditionally chopping boards are actually made of relaively soft non-abrasive materials (wood, then the more recent plastic ones) - the knife has always been the expensive item, the boards are cheap and sacrificial. Now if the stones were being used for chisel-cutting that would be a different matter, but BAJR's grooves don't look like chisel marks, unless the user was extraordinarily inept