Master the Art of Sharpening

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[asmith]

I’ve read on bushcraft channels that if you’re ever lost in the woods you should sit down to sharpen your knife. Someone will find you to tell you you’re doing it wrong. 😆 Nice tutorial.

[itzybitzyspyder]

You've got an engineer's mind and a layman's tongue. I truly appreciate this. Thank you.

[SGPARKER]

Occasionally, you come across someone who has the inherent gift of articulating the English language. This fellow is one of those rare, gifted speakers.

[daz]

Great vid! I love your request to teach kids how to sharpen their own pocketknife!! My Gramps gave me his Navy pocketknife when I was 7 years old (I'm a girl!) and I promptly sat down on th edge of the carport, grabbed a fragment of redwood that had somehow escaped lighting the BBQ, and carved a little 6 inch ship like a Spanish galleon profile, out of that piece of wood. I shaved down some straight twigs and added 3 masts to it. It was crude, but it had the right shape and proportions!! Never looked back. Still carry some kind of knife every day! People scoff at me and say you don't need that in this day and age. I laugh. Give a person a pocketknife for a week and then just try and take it back!!

[gagerose]

Thanks for making these videos. I’m 29 and lost my dad a few years back and don’t really have any male peers. It’s hard for me to explain but there really is a need for guys like yourself.

[bigfish]

I wish this guy was my grandfather. I lost my dad when I was young and iv never known ether of my grandpas. The things iv had to figure out on my own! Thank God for YouTube and men like this one here, willing to share information with us. God bless the USA 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[outlandishprofessor]

Too many people I know are afraid of sharp knives. You need to *respect* a sharp knife. But a dull knife (or other tool) scares me more than a sharp knife, because a dull knife needs to be forced to do the work, and when you're forcing a tool, you're far more likely to lose control and hurt yourself or someone else.

Great video, Scott! Thanks!

[mocciofam]

I hope one day this channel is put on the national registry for historic significance. You are a national treasure sir, and thank you.

[AlexKasper]

Pro tip for beginners: paint with a sharpie marker the edge of the knife. Then you can see what is being removed.

[AdolfSchicklegruber]

The grandfather we all need but most of us never had.

[bicisporvida]

My grandfather told me that when he was a youth in the 40s, dime stores had a whetstone on the counter near the register that was free to use for the public. You would have a conversation with the counter clerk and slowly sharpen your knife. Just a good excuse to socialize. A much slower pace of life for most people back then! He still has his old buck knife and the blade is about 1/3 of its original width from frequent sharpening. Guess there was some good gossip in his town...

[randybates]

This man is the image of "American made". Good to see all that machinery and good ole fashioned know how.

[TokyoCraftsman]

I got my first pocket knife when I was maybe 8 or 10 years old, I was shown how to sharpen it and I was expected to keep it sharp. At any time one of my older cousins, an uncle, my dad, or grandfathers could ask to borrow my knife and if it was not sharp, I'd lose it for a week. Us boys learned to keep our knives sharp, because if you didn't have a knife in your pocket everyone would ask to borrow it LOL
Cheers from Tokyo!
Stu

[aldozavaleta]

Honestly I love this channel, I never really had a father to teach me things with this much willingness and respect

[magyarninetysix]

What a complete master, not only of his craft but of communication with his fellow man.

[jeanmorin]

"Therapeutic"! That's the word I was looking for when my wife asked me why I spent so much time sharpening knives as I watched TV. I really did not know why, in the end, except to make them sharp, but I do not need these sharp knives in my life. I never cut nothing... It was just some kind of whittling that pleased my mind for reasons that I could not catch. But your use of the words "therapeutic' and 'zen' made me think that I was in fact meditating quietly while doing it, absentmindedly looking for the satisfaction of achieving a good sharpness, but at the same time enjoying the repetition of a comfortable and habitual movement. TV is often mindless and uninteresting, especially in commercials. I can fill those gaps with this 'comfort gesture' that makes my mind at peace. I love your videos for all of the knowledge that I gain watching them, including on myself. This present video is a beauty of stage managing, script, acting, and mood creation. The solo actor in it has obvious and profound star quality. What a rich production. Perfect for retired men with little to do in a Covid isolation. It feels like a conversation with real life. Long May You Go On.

[icewolf]

You remind me of my grandfather who passed away 2 years ago. He had a very extensive collection of blades that he sharpened and even made a few of. Sadly my grandmother sold a lot of his collection of blades and historical memorabilia against what he put in his will, I may only have a fraction of what he wanted me to have but I’ll always have the knowledge he taught be regarding blades, not every 4 year old knew how to sharpen blades and liked to whittle in his spare time lmao. Thank you for teaching others your knowledge

[davenag]

Grew up working in my dads old time butcher shop in 1970's Chicago. Watched him sharpen and steel his knives for many years. I remember cutting up meat for hamburger and cutting up chickens on the well worn maple butcher blocks starting when I was 10 or so. His knives were SHARP, and you learned fast to keep an eye on your fingers! He hated the plastic cutting boards as they dulled the knives too fast. He never used a meat saw because he prized his fingers and because they shredded the meat. Nothing better looking than a knife cut steak. He only used a hand meat saw for the bones, carefully trimming around them before sawing as to not shred any of the meat. He would break down an entire half cattle using this method and did it fairly quickly. Still have a few boning knives that are worn down to nothing but are super sharp and stiletto shaped. I have his Arkansas stones and steels to remember him by, as he has passed on, and this video has inspired me to get them out and hone some of my dull blades. Thank you Scott for the inspirational video, and keep up the good work!

[EFDG]

Gramps always said, "The most important thing about knives you need to learn, is that all knives do not need to be surgical sharp. Unless you like buying knives." So far thats the smartest thing I've heard about knives.

[ratiounkn]

I love that little smirk he gets when talking about a powered/electric sharping systems. You can tell just how much he loves it.