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Nowan, do you agree that for actual sharpening, you have to get a pro to do it?
I will say though, one can sharper a knife at home or work easily and with no trouble with a whet stone. Of course, if you are like me and actually care what your knife looks like, then you have to take extra care.
Attention everyone watching this video! Beware of mister edges and other hucksters like him. The belt sander that he is using to sharpen that knife should NEVER, I repeat- NEVER touch your steel. Any process of sharpening that produces SPARKS is far FAR too harsh for your precious metal.
For the sake of our knives please please PLEASE spend some time reading this article: Knife Maintenance and Sharpening. Chris Ward gives the best treatment of knife sharpening that I've ever read. He really knows his stuff.
I wish I could downvote this video. While I agree with much of the info in it, the process that he is using shows that he has no respect for the knives. He is only interested in doing as many knives as possible to maximise his profit. We have several grinders like this around town and I campaign to local chefs to avoid them. If you can sharpen a knife in 15 seconds, you are definitely doing severe damage to that knife.
This idiot has just detempered the steel, he may cause microfractures in the blade, and he has taken off way WAY more of the edge than he needs to, all of which leads to a shorter lifespan of the knife.
If he's like the con artists in this city, it's likely that he's put too acute a bevel on the knife as well. Why? Because knives that are too acute SEEM sharp when you first get them back, but the steel isn't hard enough to hold that edge. The result is that the knife becomes dull again very quickly, and the knife "sharpening" service gets called back sooner, which means more profit for them.
This sort of thing really makes my blood boil. It's just close enough to being correct that it is very convincing, but it's all a scam.
I use a whetstone and Arkansas stone to sharpen my knives, but I have had several knives severely fucked up by idiots just like the one in this video.
Sheesh...
Good post
And to Goofball, sharpening stones actually do sharpen (hardness scale, etc.).. there are honing stones (same hardness) and you CAN use drystones and wetstone for sharpening. If you've ever sharpened a pocket knife you'll know about the grey sludge and metal particles that come off of the knife. That is metal particles, hence it is no longer honing.
While djsunkid may be blowing the whole thing out of proportion, he is right about the whetstone.
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I am still a moderator of the cooking channel, and I hate this video. So no cooking. Dammit.
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