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With the bench grinder I can get kitchen knives sharp enough to shave with in under a minute. I am more than happy with that. I have also used it to overhaul an axe left by the previous owner of our house. Whetstones are great for people with time and patience but I am not one of them.
I can’t check against newsprint as don’t get newspapers.
dancing james
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I thought I'd been pretty good about honing edges on to blades - my grandad taught me when I was about 5 and I'd gone though life happy with my knife blades.
That is, until I attended a course and invested in a couple of Japanese whetstones - it has put the sharpness of my knives into an entirely different league.
BTW, when chummy upstairs^ in the MDF wheel video demonstrates the sharpness of his knife by slicing through a sheet of paper, that looks like a piece of fairly thick paper - like 120gsm or maybe more - that's easy to slice. Aim to have your knife sharp enough to slice newsprint.
Or if you want to go silly sharp - tissue paper. G'luck.