• Etterra@discuss.online
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    2 days ago

    Yeah diamonds are actually really garbage with a really good PR campaign, artificial scarcity, and PR. I remember some years back when they were really pushing “chocolate diamonds.” They were just brown diamonds that they couldn’t get rid of otherwise. I don’t know if it worked, but I don’t think so.

          • filcuk@lemmy.zip
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            22 hours ago

            Haha I have 6K and 1K stone, then diamond 400 for rough edges and 150 for leveling the stone. Appreciate the concern though, the state of some people’s knifes makes me uneasy

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              21 hours ago

              As long as you understand that carbon steel blades/bits can and will dissolve the diamond right out of your sharpener.

              The steel is hungry and cares not from where the carbon flows.

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                9 hours ago

                I don’t think that’s true. That only happens at extreme speeds/heat, not when sharpening knives by hand.