<span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: medium">I have been sharpening knives, chisels, and x-acto hobby blades for years with my Baldor buffer. I use white rouge and buff off the edge. The blades are sharper than new!!!! My pocket knives will shave the hair on your forearms clean!

If the blade has a nick in the edge, you must stone it out. But the buffer, even if is a cheap "chink" import buffer; the results are all the same. You end up with a blade that it incredibly sharp with very little sharpening effort!

You should not be able to see light "glinting" off the blade if you look straight on the edge. If you see the slightest bit of light on the edge looking straight at it: your blade it still dull.

Don't cut yourself!! </span></span>