You DON'T NEED a guided system to sharpen knives! #youtubeshorts #shorts #knife #sharpening

In this video, I show you how to abandon the guided system and venture out to sharpening knives by hand! This little trick is so powerful in helping you to keep the same angle every time you sharpen, and its usefulness cannot be overstated.

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Here is a link for the sharpening stone in the video:

It’s the coarse 325 grit stone.

Stay tuned because I’ve started a series of 30 different videos explaining different techniques for knife sharpening. These videos will be packed with tons of different knife sharpening hacks that will help you to master sharpening and enjoy it! Most importantly, your knives will cut efficiently for the tasks at hand!

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[okwhynot.]

And remember, always hold the stone in your hand and sharpen toward your radial artery

[djkiltech]

I've been sharpening knives by hand since I was 8 years old, so about 35 years, and this is a tip that would have been wonderful to know as a kid starting out.

This is an incredibly effective tip. Thank you for posting this video!

[sethjohnson]

This is fantastic. I can’t believe no one has mentioned this is any other sharpening how to video, and I have seen most of them at this point. Thank you so much.

[pegausus]

With over 4 hours of experience I’ve sharpened my knife to completely dull to razor sharp with just a water stone

[thecrazyfilipino]

Freehand sharpening is a very underrated skill. Keeping your wrist locked is the most important aspect of freehand sharpening, it’s natural to want to shift your wrist instead of lifting your elbow to keep the blade leveled and in contact with the stone. Practice, practice, practice is the only way to develop the muscle memory.

[aimansyahmidzulkhairy]

You can do that or you can use the shadow trick. The trick is to put the knife on the stone flat or low angle. Then, raised the angle slowly. You will see a shadow below the edge, raise the angle until the shadow disappear that's when you know the edge has touch the stone. Then continue sharpening.

[jkstdstang]

I bought a similar diamond plate recently never having freehanded before in my life and sharpened up a Victorinox paring knife with decent results for a first time. It was definitely much faster than setting up my guided sharpener.

[samuelpope]

If you ever do much back country hunting it's really nice to be able to sharpen in the field. I have hunted with my father all over the western U.S. until he passed away. Whenever we got an animal one of us wold go to work on it while the other broke out a sharpener and a strop. Every few minutes we would trade knives. Not a total necessity but being able to do the whole job start to finish with a hair popping knife made it a lot more fun.

[kakaobanane]

I think you’re convincing me into not buying a guided system and giving it a new try again on sharpening myself. Just me and my stone.
Thanks buddy, well done

[magnoliamike]

Great idea thanks. I’ve been honing straight razors for a year now and now I’m starting to learn scissors and pocket knives

[KG-SA]

Best advice I've watched on YouTube

[normcote]

Thank you for the great sharpning advice!!

[BryonLee]

One thing I've done is well is just lift the blade until it stops. It stops flush right where the factory bevel is.

[kdiggs]

I have a guided sharpening system. And I like it it does a great job. However I've always wanted to be proficient at hand sharpening my knives. So I've recently purchased a few diamond stones and two different strops And I'll tell you what I've been getting my knives so sharp. I did use an angle finder for the first couple times just to make sure I could feel what 20 or 22.5° feel like and I feel like now I have a good grasp on that angle or right around that angle. Anyway it is harder than it looks but it definitely works. I keep looking forward to more content that you create about hand sharpening!

[flowinthrou]

I've spent hours sharpening knives and what I say is there is no reason you don't use guiding system.
While I thought I had a consistent movement and angle, watching my blades closely and in proper light there are awful.
Actually I'm working on a simple guiding system myself

[micon]

Best advice....get lapping paper to sharpen a knife. Its like $14 and you get 320, 600, 1200, 1800, 8k, 14k and 60k. You do not need to strop after.

[matteigtch]

My problem is coming into the curve and into the tip. It's like I can't get a big enough stone on earth for me to lock my angle and follow through it without having to adjust some other inconsistent part of my body.

[Hungrybird]

Lock the wrist brothers and sisters . The more you do it the more you will be able to hold a consistent angle amd all your knives will be that 17-20 dps wherever you trained your wrist lock . And you gotta lift your elbow at the tip . Once you find the angle and get it going you will know by sound alone eventually and get really good at it laughing at yourself thinking it was so hard . The trick is to have a ceramic rod and strop with diamond emulsion . They have good diamond emulsion on Amazon imo . You gotta run the tube over hot water to get it to push out but I’ve had some really nice mirror edges from 14k compound . You can actually get a dull, undamaged back to sharp easily with the cheapest ceramic rod on Amazon for $7

[asherrose]

If you look at where the edge meets the stone you can see a shadow abd you want to lift the angle up until the shadow disappears, right when it disappears that's your angle. Another trick is to estimate the amgle and gently rock the knife in LITTLE motion and you can feel when it's at the correct angle, this method takes some practice but it's the best method there is. The problem with this guys method is that he's digging the knofe into the stone to find his angle and he doesn't find he exact angle because you don't know exactly how much to back off.

[cragdowell]

Your love is your ways to show somebody how to sharpen the night and give you something from the tip of the blade to the handle and then the other side bring the handle to the tip