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Created on: April 05, 2007 Last Updated: May 04, 2007
To sharpen your knife, first you have to be very careful while doing this process because you may cut your finger:
Follow those steps:
1. Get a knife Sharpener
2. Hold your knife with one hand (the stronger one i.e. right hand) and the sharpener on the other hand.
3. Put the knife on the sharpener with a slight angle.
4. Hold the sharpener steel and start moving the knife on the sharpener but in one direction y-x[[[[[[[[[[[[ means that if the dashes is the part of the knife that we required to sharpen and the square bracket is it's hand and "x" , "y" are points on the part to be sharpened on the knife so start with putting the knife at position "x" on the sharpener till reaching "y" then remove it from the sharpener and start the process again.
5. Repeat this process till you get the required amount of sharpening for your knife.
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