He wanted to cut her face

    The easiest technique is to hold the rod vertically and swipe the knife along it, using light pressure.Keep knives dryDo not stick damp or wet knives in a knife block. While knife blocks look good, and seem like an efficient way to store knives, they can be harmful because they retain moisture and provide an environment for bacteria to grow. If you're going to use a wooden block to store knives, make sure knives are clean and dry before storing them.Store knives separatelyThis is especially true for high-end knives. Good knives must be babied. Over time, you're likely to damage or dull the knives' edges by storing them with other knives.Use a cutting boardNever cut on glass, marble, granite or a ceramic surface, because they're too hard for a fragile, delicate knife edge. You can buy cutting boards in assorted sized.Finished ones made of mahogany, for example, can be pricey.But why buy one when you can make one yourself? Ideally, you ought to have a few boards so that you're not constantly washing a board after cutting food on it. A jealous Toronto man who tried to kill his estranged wife in a vicious knife attack that blinded her in one eye was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
  
    "He wanted to cut her face because she was seeing another man and he wanted her to look ugly," Justice Susan Himel said as she passed sentence Wednesday on Jorge Hernandez-Lima for attempted murder and carrying a concealed weapon."He said he planned to go over to her house in order to reconcile. He said he didn't know why he took the knife but admitted he wanted" to disfigure her - but not kill - in order to deter other men from wanting her, Himel said."He committed this offence with his children nearby and in a position to witness the incident."The 51-year-old iron worker ambushed his wife of 15 years, Dorothy Hernandez, outside the garage of her Uxbridge Ave. home as she prepared to leave for work on Dec.The judge gave the hard-working, hard-drinking Guatemalan immigrant four years' credit for time already served.He apologized in court, but his victim dismissed his words as "hollow and false apology. He has never shown remorse and I fear for my safety when he is parolled in a few years."I watched as my son Nelson was brought to the hospital in total horror of what had happened," Hernandez, 42, said in her victim impact statement. "He cried and asked why Jorge would ever do something so horrible to me.