Just ordered one of these too
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This should help me find it if I drop it!
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blue is much better choice than orange...the orange blends into browns just too easily.
@bumblefoot I've been trying to find info online like a youtube video for something visual on smoothing sharpening steels but nothing out there. Guess I'll have to have a crack at it and hope for the best, suppose its something that can't be fcuked up?
just rub it with grain...you wont make it worse than it is,if too course now any thing will be improvement.
this thread has made me appreciate the extremely fine and bare steel I have got...thank you to all, for educating me as to why its made like that.
I just used to use the finest wet and dry sandpaper I could find. That way you cant really mess it up. Just used to roll the sandpaper up in the palm of my hand and rub the steel up and down through it.... Just do it without much "grip" and you can't really go wrong