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Kiwi brand knives from Thailand - I am going to give a set to some friends who use crap dull knives. Question is, how do you maintain these things? The friends in question are not going to be learning how to use a whetstone anytime soon. My thinking is give them a leather strop for daily...

Let's say I'm going to regularly cut steak on a ceramic or glass plate. What edge characteristics would I look for to mitigate the damage and stay reasonably sharp? (Note: I sharpen with diamond.) My guess: the blade should have belly so it won't become convex when sharpened on the dull part...

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so everytime i search for "differences between japanese steels" its just an article that talks about how each steel has a different amount of tungsten than the other, or another chemical difference. It does not say "this steel is hardest to sharpen" or "this steel can hold its edge the longest"...

So, newbie to j-knives here. I read that you want to get a ceramic rod with them instead of a steel steel. Question is, what grit do you get? I normally see them at 1000,1500,2000. I was looking at the CKTG Black Ceramic Sharpening Rod 270mm from CKTG with stellar reviews that is a 2k grit...