{"id":1697,"date":"2015-01-04T17:03:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T23:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2016-07-20T11:08:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T16:08:26","slug":"cheese-and-knivessharper-is-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/?p=1697","title":{"rendered":"Cheese and Knives&ndash;Sharper is Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1883\" src=\"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/knifesharp-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"knifesharp\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/knifesharp-300x222.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thechristys.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/knifesharp-150x111.jpg 150w, http:\/\/thechristys.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/knifesharp-400x297.jpg 400w, http:\/\/thechristys.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/knifesharp.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I usually stay away from product endorsements.\u00a0 But I have been so impressed with one of my Christmas presents I wanted to share it with my friends.\u00a0 It\u2019s a sharpener it\u2019s called the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Work-Sharp-WSKTS-Knife-Sharpener\/dp\/B003IT5F14\/ref=cm_cd_ql_qh_dp_t\" target=\"_blank\">Work Sharp WSKTS Knife and Tool Sharpener<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 It will sharpen knives, scissors and some tools.\u00a0 If you use a tool with a blade very often you know what a difference a sharp blade makes from a dull blade.\u00a0 To me  , the sharpening process was some sort of dark art.\u00a0 Up until this point the best sharpeners I have used have been just <em>OK<\/em>.\u00a0 I had been told that to get a really good edge you needed special oils  , stones and pentagrams or at least real skill.<\/p>\n<p>This unit got some really good reviews on Amazon and for whatever reason I believed them and put it on my Christmas list.\u00a0 Katie and Sam got it for me and I promptly took it into the garage to give it a spin.\u00a0 About and hour later I had sharpened everything I could get my hands on.\u00a0 It\u2019s a little like a pressure washer \u2013 such power \u2013 immediate results \u2013 you don\u2019t know when to stop.\u00a0 Turns out the Amazon reviews were on target.<\/p>\n<p>At some point you are going to want to make something sharp that has gotten dull.\u00a0 Don\u2019t buy another new fangled sharpener in the kitchen department buy one of these and get much better than OK results.\u00a0 You will soon find you have a lot more things to sharpen that you knew you had.\u00a0 The right tool for the job makes all the difference.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>I usually stay away from product endorsements. But I have been so impressed with one of my Christmas presents I wanted to share it with my friends. It\u2019s a sharpener it\u2019s called the Work Sharp WSKTS Knife and Tool Sharpener. It will sharpen knives, scissors and some tools. If you use a tool with [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1885,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions\/1885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}