Farberware Knives

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Was visiting some relatives, and as they know my abilities, I was asked to sharpen their knives.

They had a fairly new batch of Farberware Knives apparently identical to this set:
https://www.amazon.com/Farberware-1...=1544504462&sr=8-4&keywords=farberware+knives

The whole set of knives, block included, can be had for under $30.

Anyway, they were still in good shape but one of them had an uneven bevel and a pretty bad burr from the factory sharpening, so I tried to clean up the bevel up using a ceramic sharpener (Spyderco Sharpmaker). I say "tried" because the blade was VERY hard. In spite of just having used the same sharpener to repair and sharpen a very dull 154CM blade in a Benchmade knife with no problem, as well as all their other kitchen knives, progress grinding in a new bevel on that Farberware knife was so slow that I finally gave up and just sharpened it with the original uneven bevel.

I thought that maybe the set was overhardened, but the blades were flexible and I could see no chipping although I know that some have already been used at least a little bit with glass cutting boards in their short life.

I don't know if this particular set is representative or not. I can't find anything that tells what kind of stainless steel Farberware uses--anyone have any ideas?
 
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