I use a Lansky sharpener with ceramic rods. The one I use is a ‘fold-a-v’, brilliant bit a ball ache to find replacement rods. So for a while mine have looked like dirty, metallic, smoothed rods and they don’t give the edge they used to.
As a last resort I got on to Google and found a bloke, ahem, giving his rod a right good work over.
Water, “bar keepers friend” and a bit of elbow grease was the trick. Now the last time I was a bar keepers friend was in the late eighties in a lock-in at the black swan in Staines after a bundaberg promotion. But that’s another story.
Hunting about at home I found some household cream cleaner (still called Jif in our house), ceramic hob cleaner and a more aggressive cleaning paste called ‘astonish’. I think any would have worked, but astonish got the go.
Five minutes with a rag, hot water and cleaner and they are like new.
I’m likely they only one that did not know this about ceramic sharpening rods, but it’s brought my favourite sharpener back into service.
As a last resort I got on to Google and found a bloke, ahem, giving his rod a right good work over.
Water, “bar keepers friend” and a bit of elbow grease was the trick. Now the last time I was a bar keepers friend was in the late eighties in a lock-in at the black swan in Staines after a bundaberg promotion. But that’s another story.
Hunting about at home I found some household cream cleaner (still called Jif in our house), ceramic hob cleaner and a more aggressive cleaning paste called ‘astonish’. I think any would have worked, but astonish got the go.
Five minutes with a rag, hot water and cleaner and they are like new.
I’m likely they only one that did not know this about ceramic sharpening rods, but it’s brought my favourite sharpener back into service.
