My MINIMALIST Knife Sharpening Setup - Whetstone Gear Rundown

As promised, the second video in our series about knives and all things sharpening that I use. Designed to be minimal, reliable, and keep my knives performing how I like them. Thumbs up for another video in this series of ours!

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[LoreLord-]

Sharpening your own knives gives you a love for the steel and feel accomplished and will appreciate your knife and want to use it

[jeffmacrae]

Good video... I've been cooking professionally for 30 ish years now... sharpening my own knives for around 20....and it always amazes me how few people I've worked with know how to sharpen their knives... thanks for helping to right that wrong...

Looking forward to that next video...

Take care

[UnauthorizedCreations]

I love sharpening my knives. I have a 240 grit, 800 grit, and a double sided 100/6000 grit set up. I find sharpening my knives extremely relaxing.

[Avenger]

Love this series Justin, can't wait to take my old culinary school knives back to former glory with your help!

[MakingTheCut]

I use a very similar sink bridge, I found when using finer grit stones (3000, 6000&12, 000 shapton glass and Naniwa), it was best to not have a constant stream of water wetting the surface, that way a slurry of stone and steel particles builds up and helps polish and refine the edge, but I guess it’s different with different stones. With the corse grits keeping the stones under running water helps the stone cut a little quicker to speed things up.

[mycat]

Great stuff about knife sharpening. Really looking forward to the next part!

[scarlettstpierre]

You always post a video about exactly what I need!

[cikarda]

good stuff. like your content, keep it up :)
on stones - my tip is to invest in a good one. there is night and day difference on cheap stone for a tenner and some japanese stone for five or ten times more. good stone cuts into a knife better, you do the work faster and it gives you much better feedback. they also require less flattening. as comparisson, i wore out a cheap masterclass stone for beaters in half a year, and a king stone i got four years ago is still going strong, and will go for a good while more. i've also fixed broken off tips simply on bricks before. a diamond stone with really low grit is a good but more expensive alternative.

[skillet]

Oh I am sooo making a sink bridge this weekend.

[zodiacmanan]

Super useful channel. Appreciate all the insights.

[kareldrasner]

Nice video. I am a starting sharpener in Czech and have just one remark. You dont have to flatern your stone if your sharpenind double bevel knifes just make shure you use all the surface of the stone (wont end up like that guy). A flat stone is just needed for japanese single bevel knifes like yanagibas or woodworking tools. Just clean it from loadup for consistant cuting ability. Othervise your just wasteing material. Keep on going like you chanel.

[jerick]

My aunt bought me an 800/6000 stone by King as a gift from Japan. From most vids i see, what they have are 1000/6000. Is 800 alright or is it too rough? I don't wanna complain because I appreciate the thought nonetheless.

[queenbill]

Hey Justin i'm not seeing any 3000 grit stones on Korin's website. Is there any other places you would recommend

[speedy]

I need a set of knife sharpener stones =)

[marlexalfaro]

I do 1000 then 4000 then leather strop

[franzb]

anything 58 rc, i would go for a 400, 1000 and a 5000. that would be my mobile stone set up. but for anything above 61 rc, i would go for 400, 1000, 5000, 8000, 12000.

[MyLife-nito]

I have a 3000/6000 stone and I can't get a razor sharp edge on my knife it was a cheap stone, does it mean that I need a lower grit stone to give it an edge, and is it the higher the grit the more it is for polishing. Btw this video was really good, really informative keep it up. I feel like I need around about 300 to 1000 grit because it's more coarse am I right?

[arevee]

Great videos. But I do believe Victorinox is pronounced Victori nox. Not VictoriA nox as in the capitol of British Columbia followed by 'nox'. Apologies in advance if this comes off as pedantic.

[crak]

My grandpa was using none drying oils for sharpening, is that a good idea?
Maybe it was for counter theses craking problems.

[chefmonstro]

I keep it pretty simple myself dmt diamond sharpener then leather 👍