Step by Step Freehand Knife Sharpening Easiest Way.

This is a step by step way to learn freehand sharpening. Easy way How to freehand sharpen knives, knife sharpening pocket knives, kitchen knives, camping knives or any other type of knife.

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[MyBlueRidgeLife]

Hey Jerad. Been watching you for years on my other channels. where I didn’t create anything. This is the one that I will be using for sharpening and other things. You are the one who has taught me the most. You’re on live now, got to sign up—can’t believe I haven’t done that yet! You’re the master of freehand!! I have learned more from you than anyone else, but you can always pick up little bits and pieces from different people, but you have put it all together the best for me to learn by, and I have been sharpening freehand for about forty years, first starting with a Buck 110 on a cheap oil stone. My grandfather taught me first and he was a master of all lot of things. He was a master plumber and self employed, he was also a carpenter and homebuilder, he painted steel on oil refineries high up in Galveston, Texas before moving to Alabama where he learned carpentry and plumbing and got his master plumbers license. He then packed up the family and moved to Alaska. He lived in log cabins in Anchor Point and Homer before homesteading a piece of land in Kenai, in a house he built himself—an A-frame that he eventually added on to. I remember you talking about your father and other family being in the trades too, and how that’s what you had done before your channel took off. And I think that I told you that my grandfather was a master at nearly everything but not knife sharpening! Although I do remember him telling me nope, I had rounded the edge! Lol Man, that was a long time ago. I worked construction and was a backhoe and heavy equipment operator before getting into plumbing where I messed up my back.
Best to you and your lovely wife Kara,
Rob, a.k.a., CatoctinPatriot, from the Catoctin Mountain/Blue Ridge Mountains

[MrEric]

Man, this is by far the single best sharpening tutorial anywhere on the web. I had trouble keeping my fingers from bleeding at first due to new diamond stones. Thankfully, that hasn’t been an issue now that they have broken in. I have used this technique for the past couple of week, and it’s made a huge difference in bevel consistency, thus sharpness. I’m still having to work extra hard right at the very tip; my finger wants to leave the stone (on pull stroke) and thumb wants to lay flat (on push stroke) when I get to tippy tip on knives with big bellies. But, overall, this is a game-changer on how to train yourself on getting a consistent edge from heel to tip. Really appreciate you sharing.

[rickyhurtt]

54 years on this rock and I've never seen it done exactly this way. It is a great way for someone to get used to finding the right angle. I do love the little jig you've got there for your sharpener. I really enjoy your videos. Thanks

[simonnizerontheroad]

To everyone here for the first time seeking a new voice after a lot of frustration; this video and his other complete guide to freehand are all you need. After years of accumulating a knife collection that was catching dust with a dull edge (extremely sad situation), I tried to learn 2 separate times over the years, and ended up throwing all the associated tools out the window after hours doing more damage than anything else on the knives that were my sacrificial lambs. With this above video and a single over nighter of almost non stop practice with my wife crappy kitchen knives while the kids were sleeping, and Inside the following 5days I had sharpened almost half my collection, all the kitchen knives and even put an absolutely perfect full polish up to 10 000grit on a D2 folding knife which is apparently a difficult steel for beginners to do perfectly.
✋ Stop looking, you have found the last video you’ll need to transform edges into mirrors!

[Squidbillies]

My man… why isn’t the sharpie mark on the finger more widely known?! Easily the most helpful sharpening video I have ever seen. Thanks for putting your knowledge out into the world for people like me to leverage.

[moshpitmachine]

Man I have been sharpening for probably about 30 years. First time grandpa took me out hunting. I come online to brush up every now and then cause new blade types new steels and all that. Your videos are fantastic man. Some great pointers for helping me to teach my son and get my own edges even sharper

[josduivis]

The marker pen stripes have helped me a lot and were very useful. Thank you very much for showing this. I finally see progress in sharpening by hand .

[mogbaba]

This is the real teaching of knife sharpening technique, thank you very much.

[MuzzyAlasmar]

I haven't tried this method I'm going to try it. You are by far the best on YouTube

[TheOfficialCaseMade]

Dude, thank you for all of the information you put out. I have a knife that I've had a few years, and while I love it, it's never been the same since it lost the factory edge. After a few days of watching your videos, I got it shaving sharp last night in less than 30 minutes.

[PaulKabana]

Wow! the simplest bullet proof sharpening tutorial I've seen in 20 years! Thank you!

[LifebyBrody]

BEST FREEHAND TUTORIAL! Love the sharpie line trick! haven't seen that before with "copying" the marking onto thumb for reverse passes. I'm very new at this and just got my first of MANY knives (pockets, chefs, and general kitchen knives) to a polished, hair whittling edge after about 30 mins on 4 stone and a strop. It took so long as I was messing up my angles on the coarser grits when using a pyramid angle finder for beginning references. Excited to try this method right now actually on another one of my cheaper pockets. Cheers!

[Resolute]

One can see the passion and sincerity this man has for this art.

Thank you for sharing your skill, experience and knowledge with us.

[joshuahepner]

I love sharpening my knives by hand. Thank you so much for this video.

[oldbones]

First of all…I’m in my mid seventies and have free hand sharpen my pocket and fixed blade knives all my life…then around five years ago I started to enlarge my knife collection and thought I required sharpening tools to facilitate this chore. In time I acquired three………then…watch your video!
Those tools are now collecting dust!
My way was faster..only one part require (not counting the mark-a-lot now).
I don’t show my knives but I actually use them so being super precise is not that important.
Watched your review and technic…
C👀L..!
Putting it to use! And Thanks..

[crztrn]

best sharpening tutorial ive ever seen. i never could get it right. this was very helpful. thank you so much😊

[phillipgrossmann]

Super dope Video
Thanks a lot
I just sharpened my knife the first time by hand and got it actually sharp 😂🔥

[spydiho]

I thoroughly enjoy everyone of your videos

[dansigmon]

Excellent knife sharpening tutorial that shows and explains the details of proper knife sharpening. The marker indexing on the thumb and forefinger was an excellent hack to maintain the proper sharpening angle, especially for beginners. A+ work!

[Hungrybird]

Yes ! If it don’t cut through paper like you did it’s not sharp enough . Awesome 👏. Two whetstones and a strop 👍👍. Took an hour ?