I have some nice whetstones that i use to sharpen my pocket knives, but i have recently been lazy and taken my kitchen knives to a professional at a hardware store.
I’ve tried some of the mechanical things that you pull a knife through, or that hold the knife at the “right” angle, and I’ve been underwhelmed.
No; but if you live far from the line, you’ll have to drive a long way to get to a place close to the line. (Though for some people, apparently the closest places near the line for them are where nobody’s going to be celebrating other than you unless the bears count. And I don’t think they recognize time lines.)
But if you live west of the line, you can drive east to it, just as much as if you live east of it you can drive west of it. Unless, of course, the line’s at or in the ocean in your necessary direction; in which case you’d need a boat or airplane, which the poll was specifically excluding.
I sometimes reuse ziplock, or twistied for that matter, plastic bags both for environmental reasons and to save money. It’s a twofer. Didn’t vote, because it won’t let me vote that way.
And I first voted “manual pull-through sharpener” but then I checked what that means, and what I use doesn’t look like that. It’s a hand held doohicky that holds two stones at the right angle (I also have one for scissors that has one stone at an angle) and includes a guard so you don’t slice your hand on the blade; you hold the blade still and move the sharpener over it.
I would say that those fall in the category of manual pull-through sharpeners. I have a set of those (something like these things, right?), although I didn’t find that they worked very well and replaced them with a motorized model that works great.
Yeah, that’s the things exactly (though apparently there’s three versions, I’ve only got two of them.)
I could easily leave the Mountain time zone shortly after midnight and be home (or at a bar near my home) well before midnight Pacific.
The trick would be finding somewhere to “celebrate” on the other side of the state line. There’s not much there, unless maybe the snack bar at Hoover Dam stays open late on NYE.
The closest spot for me would be on the Colorado River. Probably Lake Havasu City. Have a drink at Barley Brothers Brewery at the end of London Bridge, then zip across the river by boat to Havasu Landing Casino. Heck, just sit midchannel. Midnight? Have a drink. Move the boat 10 meters west. Wait for midnight again. Drink.
I keep my knives from going “dull” by using a honing steel in the first place. I do have a sharpener if one slips thru the cracks.
I’ve got sharpening stones. They’re mostly decorative.
I use a bench grinder with a knife jig to actually sharpen my knives. Takes just a few seconds, three or four passes each side. Used to use a Work Sharp pull-through. It worked fine, but now that I have the bench grinder set up it’s much easier to just use that. I don’t use it for anything else, I got it from my father who was getting rid of his.
I don’t consider myself good at math, but I could impersonate a mathematician in a pinch: when I graduated from university, they mistakenly wrote on my diploma that I was awarded a B.Sc. in mathematics. They must have realized their error because they sent me a correct diploma a few weeks later, but they never asked for the first one back.
That’s the one I have!
Look, I know that I should just take the whetstone that I have owned since 1982 and sharpen my knives with that. I’ve just never gotten good at it. Every couple of years, I run across the knife guy who comes by the JoAnn Fabrics store and I turn all my good knives over to him for actual sharpening; the motorized sharpener gets me by in between.
There are large bodies of water between me and the next time zones (in one direction, quite a large one). In theory I could get to/from the closest one in less than an hour but doing it in a car would be challenging to say the least.
On math: I’m solid up through algebra and basic geometry, but once we get into trigonometry my head starts to hurt. And don’t even talk to me about calculus.
Neither guardrail nor guiderail… here there usually referred to as crash barriers.
I can add, subtract, multiply, divide, make change in my head, and get some idea of when a percentage chart looks suspicious.
I used to be good at algebra and geometry in school but have forgotten most of it.
I never managed to learn anything past that; at least in part because when I hit calculus I could fill in the answers but had no understanding of what I was doing, and when I tried to talk to the teacher she said ‘of course you know what you’re doing, you’re filling in the answers right!’ I wasn’t able at the time to explain myself any better (suppose I had a list of words in Chinese with their translations in Urdu, but no idea of what any of them meant, and was asked to translate a passage in one into the other); but I was able to drop calculus and take biology instead. So that’s what I did.
I’ve heard/seen both guardrail and guiderail, but think of them as guardrails so answered that way.
I would call it a guardrail. I’ve seen signage calling it a guiderail and that seems wrong.
ETA: Jersey Barrier is what I call those concrete blocks.
Folks who don’t sharpen your knives, please do yourself a favor and get a sharpener. Even a cheap one is better than trying to work with a dull knife.
Dull knives are dangerous. When they cut you (and they will), the wound will be bad and take longer to heal.
Whatever you call the concrete things, they need to be taller so they block the oncoming headlights in the opposite lane.
Yup, drove thru construction & there were orange ‘No guiderail’ signs. They don’t guide me, they guard someone from a worse fate than hitting one of them.
Her best friend’s husband’s job is a knife sharpener, he has lots of accounts for restaurants. So ours go to a pro but we don’t pay for it.
I call the concrete thing a Jersey barrier, but I’d understand concrete barrier, and might even call it that sometimes.