A coarse stone will give you a burr that is easy to feel with a careful touch with your nail or fingertip. It is an overhanging thin piece of steel, like foil, that is bent over and you feel it nicking your finger when touching very lightly for it.

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When you first "get it" and feel the burr, sharpening becomes fairly easy in most cases. There are steels that are much more difficult to sharpen, being very abrasive resistant combined with high HRC - or just low quality steel that will not give you a thin, strong edge.

If the sides do not meet, the side you are sharpening will not "fold over" onto the other side creating a burr you can feel.

Fire blanket ID signs clearly identify the presence of a fire blanket and provide guidance on what type of fires the fire blanket can be used on.

If you do not sharpen until you get this burr, the edge is still a flat area between the two sides you are sharpening and the knife will never be sharp.

When fire safety signs are used, the ‘responsible person’ – as defined in the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 – must ensure they are well maintained, with any faded or defective signs replaced. They should also explain the signs to people who work within the building, making sure they understand the meaning and actions to be taken in correspondence with them.

For kitchen knives we mostly do not want a strong edge, we go for a thin, sharp edge so keep the spine low down towards the stone for a lower sharpening angle. Placing a 20 cent coin on the stone under the spine is a good starting point to show you how high to keep the spine. You may adjust this up or down based on blade width, spine thickness and what the blade will be used for, but it is a good starting point for your average kitchen knife with a 2-3 mm spine and 150-220 mm blade.

A polished edge is generally sharper than a toothy edge and can do very clean, effortless cutting but will need touching up more often than a toothy edge. A polished edge is achieved by going grit by grit up to a fine stone of several thousand. Grit size can be thought of like how many pieces per grams, so the higher number of grits means more "pieces" of sharpening material, and therefore a finer stone. A 1000 grit stone is much finer than a 240 grit stone.

Then when changing to finer stones it will go much faster, the edge is now set and you are just refining scratches towards a more polished edge.

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There are specific, stringent requirements for safety signs, such as the shape, colour and size. One of the main regulations is that all safety signs must include a symbol or pictogram that clearly defines its meaning. Text can be used to aid understanding, but text-only signs are not permitted.

Fire safety signs are everywhere. Not only are they vital in making environments safe and directing appropriate action in the face of danger, they’re also compulsory and required to be compliant with fire safety regulations. But are you aware of the variety of fire safety sign meanings? Would you know what to do in the event of emergency?

Some like a really toothy edge, excelling at cutting things that are hard outside and soft inside. this is why bread knives are serrated. Tomatoes are another good example of something that is easier to cut with a toothy edge than a polished edge.

One more thing: when you sharpen a new knife you will spend time (2-15 min) on getting that first burr, then when flipping the knife over it will come back much faster but you need to keep going for the same amount of time to keep the edge centered on the knife. Try to time yourself or count strokes or find another way to do about the same amount of steel removal on the other side.

But when you get what the burr feels like, you are able to sharpen most any knife with a lot of different abrasives - like the underside of a ceramic mug or plate. A sheet of sandpaper wrapped around something hard and flat, the top of a car window..anything with an abrasive surface!

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The cutting edge is the point where these two sides meet and if you stop before the sides meet, the knife will not be sharpened.

Here, we pose some frequently asked questions with their answers, so you can check whether your knowledge of fire safety signs and meanings is up to scratch.

The first time on a new knife it can take a while to get a burr. The steeper the angle you sharpen (the higher you raise the spine off the stone), the longer it will take and the stronger the edge will be.

It goes without saying that, as both a legal requirement for British Standards BS 5499 and a vital safety measure, fire safety signage should never be overlooked. In fact, the Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996 requires employers, landlords and building owners to provide specific safety signs wherever there is a risk or hazard that has not been avoided or controlled by other means, unless the risk is not significant, or the use of a sign would not reduce it.

Sharpening is a good skill to have, and easy after you feel a burr forming for the first time. Learning to sharpen well enough to put a razor edge on most knives in 15 mins or less is not hard, and this is how to do so using the sharpening stones we supply at Nordic Edge.

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*A burr is just the side of the knife being sharpened (worn away) until it is so thin it cannot support itself standing upright and folds over towards the side of the blade that is not being sharpened.

You are then just wearing away at the sides of the blade without making that side meet the other side of the knife in the middle.

A knife can last a few years or a lifetime, and with use it will need some light sharpening every now and then. Most people do not sharpen their knives and just live with it. Pushing harder, making sloppier cuts and accepting that tomatos are not for slicing up. Being able to put a good working edge back on a worn chef knife usually does not take too much effort, and will make the knife more enjoyable to use for years to come.

By feeling carefully for this burr the entire length of the blade, you know you have done enough work on this side with this grit sharpening stone. If you feel a burr at the heel and the tip but not in the middle of the blade, sharpen more on this section of the blade before finishing with some heel to tip strokes when you have the burr going the entire way.

A toothy edge is done by skipping grains, going from a fairly coarse stone to a fine stone without the grains inbetween, for instance 400 and then 1000 and no more.

For a kitchen knife a good middleground is for instance a 240 grit stone to sharpen up, then a 1000 grit stone for a somewhat polished edge while leeving a toothy edge from the 240. If wanting a somewhat more refined edge, add a 180 & 600 grit stone to be able to rough in bevels and remove chips at 180, and refine with 240, 600 and polish at 1000 grits.

**Disclaimer: This is an intro to knife sharpening and enough to help you provide sharp knives for the rest of your life. There are many opinions on sharpening, with much more detailed knowledge, equipment, stone types, etc. This is not to be considered the "Truth" on hand sharpening but a good starting point to quickly deliver sharp edges and not interested in taking it further certainly will find additional techniques for them **