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It's so strange that someone who knows how to use a whetstone doesn't know what a honing rod is.
I'm the same. I am just learning right now what a honing rod is, reading the wiki article for it. I find that knowledge passed down organically is often incomplete this way. I have been using a pyreneean whetstone for a few years, it serves me well, but never bothered investigating the butcher's weird metal stick
You should. They are quick and easy to use, fairly cheap (especially considering they last a very long time), and they will make your knives last longer because you won't have to sharpen them as often.
Honing rods are not sharpening rods, which is what I was referring to (sharpening rods). This one looked like a sharpening rod on my phone, so if it's a honing rod, then I was wrong and apologize.
And like the other person, I've never invested in using honing rods either.
I literally grew up having multiple generations dating back into the 1800s (great grandfather was a harpoon sharpener, all of us capable of field dressing an elk) explaining to me that honing rods (cermaic or steel) have been effectively mislabelled and misused all too often as 'sharpening rods' (google it or look on Amazon). Probably adds to why, if it is a honing rod, I couldn't differeciate it from a sharpening rod.
This is the first time I have ever heard or read anybody use the term "sharpening rod".
(I don't think they know how to use a sharpening stone).