Ceramic Rod Vs Steel

The steel and ceramic honing rods may have longitudinal ridges whereas the diamond coated steels are smooth but will be embedded with abrasive diamond particles.

Ceramic rod vs steel.

It just didn t happen. Ceramic steels which should maybe be called ceramics not steels are capable of rubbing off a teeny tiny amount of metal from your knives as you hone them which you can immediately see as gray streaks on the white ceramic rod. This eliminated the need to replace guides due to wear. Honing rods are made of steel and can come coated in ceramic or diamond in addition to steel.

Photo by flickr member matt feifarek under creative commons. Http amzn to 2lmg2sj the bigger one green elephant. Many of these rods are made out of alumina ceramic. Ceramic diamond rods.

Honing steel option 2. Once you ve chosen your sharpening steel you ll need to take care of it. Http amzn to 2haxekr retail partners links support the channel. Ceramic rods on the other hand are less aggressive than diamond and can sharpen as well or better than a steel.

Buy one and be cool like me. You clean a knife each time you use it and you should also clean your sharpening steel every time you hone your knife. Historically guides were predominately steel and sometimes were coated with chrome. The rods can be round square or triangular as long as the knife has a smooth surface to slide along.

If you are using high carbon very hard steel then a ceramic hone will have limited effect so you may need to use a leather strop fine wet stone or even steel to hone that edge. Contrary to popular opinion very hard blades are not necessarily better and can be a real pain to maintain. Then in the 1960 s ceramic rings were inserted inside the rings. Is ceramic smooth steel or grooved steel the best material to keep your knives in great shape.