When sharpening a knife, what exactly does honing do?

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When sharpening a knife, what exactly does honing do?

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Sharpening is subtractive and you lose material, honing is making all the microscopic knicks and imperfections are pointed in generally the same direction (facing out) which is the next best thing to increase cutting ability.

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