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Honing Process

Honing is a machining process that uses an abrasive stone to precisely shape and improve the surface geometry and texture of metal workpieces like engine cylinders, gears, and air bearing spindles. It involves scrubbing the stone along a controlled path on the workpiece under pressure. While honing improves form and texture, using a honing steel on knives only realigns the edge metal and does not actually hone them. Lapping and superfinishing are similar surface finishing processes.

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Honing Process

Honing is a machining process that uses an abrasive stone to precisely shape and improve the surface geometry and texture of metal workpieces like engine cylinders, gears, and air bearing spindles. It involves scrubbing the stone along a controlled path on the workpiece under pressure. While honing improves form and texture, using a honing steel on knives only realigns the edge metal and does not actually hone them. Lapping and superfinishing are similar surface finishing processes.

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Honing is an abrasive machining process that produces a precision surface on a metal workpiece

by scrubbing an abrasive stone against it along a controlled path. Honing is primarily used to
improve the geometric form of a surface, but may also improve the surface texture.
Typical applications are the finishing of cylinders for internal combustion engines, air
bearing spindles and gears. There are many types of hones but all consist of one or more abrasive
stones that are held under pressure against the surface they are working on.
In terms of sharpening knives, a honing steel does not actually hone knives, but simply realigns the
metal along the edge.
Other similar processes are lapping and superfinishing.

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