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@hkguitar1984

Ай бұрын

Thank You for the tip when Stropping with a "spongy" piece of leather, I was using too much pressure and rounding over my Apex. Great Content, thank you Also, I do hope you're feeling better and on the mend.

@monsterbuster_1596

Ай бұрын

you promised a realtime vid and you delivered thank you

@samueljackson856

Ай бұрын

They sell cheap laser angle finders on Amazon. Would like to see you use one on a finished sharpening job. It really shows how clean and accurate you get the angle. (Edit: it will also reveal if you are convexing the edge)

@samueljackson856

Ай бұрын

The paper test can be a sharpness test. The less sound it makes the sharper the knife. The sound your paper makes you're probably in a 250-300 gram range. Just guessing lol. Why don't you do the wire cut test and laser test. If you can get one to 50 grams on a larger knife it would be impressive. 😊

@stevegagnon1449

Ай бұрын

Since I m sharpening my kitchen knives the way you teach, I want to cut lot of stuff when I cook to "test" my knives 🤣

You should do one of these with a longer knife. Sharpening a pocket knife is great for beginners, but it would be awesome to see if you do it differently for a longer knife

@Hydrazine1000

Ай бұрын

Seconded! I've bought this very Sharpal stone because of the glowing review on this channel and I too would love to get guidance and tips on how to sharpen kitchen knives.

@JohnSmith-zs1bf

Ай бұрын

Yes I have large filleting breaking scimitars butcher type knives that are 10-14 inches and want to improve my tech on the sharpal

@PhilipTheBird

Ай бұрын

Yeah I've specifically still got questions about how to deal with the curve towards the tip of many kitchen knives (don't know the proper terminology sorry).

@ironfoot1938

Ай бұрын

Yes a curved knive tutorial would be great. You need to change your angle when you get to the curve, and I always struggle with that. Edit: I guess you don't call it changing the angle.

@JohnSmith-zs1bf

Ай бұрын

@@ironfoot1938 I've seen tutorials saying to keep the angle the same and lift the handle side up (torwards the sky) as you get to the curve. Seems to work but I'd like to see OD55 method

When you said “I have no idea what angle that is” I was instantly released from my obsession with the ‘correct’ angle. It was what I imagine an exorcism might be like. Thank you for that.

@mikafoxx2717

7 күн бұрын

The correct angle is as shallow your tasks for that knife allows, shallower is better for edge retention and sharpness and cutting ability. Go more obtuse if it chips or rolls the edge. It all depends on the steel, the heat treat, the use case. Kitchen knives can be really shallow, an axe not as much.

Happy to see you’re doing well

I can understand when you say these types of videos don't do well views wise, but as someone who is currently learning, I sincerely appreciate this. Cheers, mate! 🍻

That's the best stone sharpening video I have ever seen! I'm sharing it far and wide!

@OUTDOORS55

Ай бұрын

Wow that's awesome! Glad it helped!

Happy Easter Alex I’m praying for you and hope you have a speedy recovery.

You are selling yourself short by a lot of $. You have to fix the fact that you're not getting a cut of the sale of the sharpening stones you're recommending. You're the reason these stones are hard to find. You have built a solid reputation and we trust your referral. You deserve a cut of the big bucks. Good to hear you're healing up well. It is amazing that you can take such a simple topic and turn it into this much good info and entertainment. I am always learning new stuff. That may be because I am a little slow and forget what is said too quickly. Lol. I also hate the phrase “practice makes perfect”, if you practice badly you will only get good at doing things badly.

@marcinmerrimack1726

Ай бұрын

He gets a commission from a sale if buyers use his links to purchase. (And there’s nothing wrong with that.)

@OUTDOORS55

Ай бұрын

I do get a commission from the sales on Amazon if I recommend something. Luckily almost every type of stone is available on Amazon so that allows me to link to what I recommend. And if i dont like something i can link to an alternative. Im not opposed to sponsorships but they would have to be some I already recommend and use personally 🙂

Hey, just wanted to say thanks. I've got fucked up hands and have spent years (and a decent amount of money) going through all the electric, guided and 'easy' sharpeners. None of which saved my hands or gave a decent edge. Following your guides, I can now make my kitchen knives sharp in minutes. Not only that, they stay that way for so much longer. So thank you! I hope you're feeling better.

@fairgolfer

Ай бұрын

Thank you. My hands are not great, rheumatoid arthritis. Your post is inspiring 👍

@bakamojojojo

Ай бұрын

@@fairgolfer No worries! I have similar and this is definitely the easiest time I've had sharpening knives.

This real-time sharpening is what I’ve been looking for. Awesome sharpening video. Definitely the best I have seen on KZread in real, practical, no-nonsense terms. Thank you. Subscribed to your channel.

Man you are global treasure. You have made my life full of joy. I sharpen knives for years but you are the reason I’m using diamond plates for corse and medium necessity and Ceramic stones as fine instead of cumbersome messy whetstones. I use only a 10 k Naniwa just before strop only to get mirror bevel faster. Keep it up high 🔪

13:25 I totally felt identified with your reaction 😂, that "oh! It's sharp!" look. I kind of know that a surgeon sharp knife is not required for most of my applications (I just like to cook). But I'm also a mechanical engineer, I know one or two things about steel, and I'm also obsessed with sharpness. It is always this sensation of "let's make it sharper, I can make it sharper" I recently found your channel and I have learned so much. My onions don't even know they are being sliced and diced now. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Hello, I love to cook, and could you make a video of sharpening a chef knife ? Or a butcher knife ? (Curved one) Because I feel the length of these knifes make it harder, I would like to see how you do it. Anyway love your videos, this is the channel that helped me the most with sharpening.

I'm so glad youtube has these kinds of videos. For years I thought education was the key but I was very wrong. It turns out that all the things I'm lacking knowledge in has nothing to do with education but is in fact is because I don't know the secrets. Don't worry though from now on I'll treat learning things as I should and make sure I keep these things secret ;)

Just want to say thanks from New Zealand. Was spending a lot on "professional" sharpening on our kitchen knives that went dull again really quickly. Splashed out on a diamond stone and a leather strop, watched your videos a few times and took a crack at some of them and even with the first, rookie go at it they're so much better. I will continue to check out your vids and refine my technique, thank you!

Hey, just wanted to say thank you for your videos. I had gotten a full whetstone set on Black Friday, but after watching your stuff I returned and got a much cheaper diamond set. After watching your technique and your super helpful microscope images, I got a really good idea of what I was looking for in a burr. I'm now slicing paper with some coarse stones, and haven't even gotten a strop yet! Thank you so much for your content.

Alex does the best sharpening videos on KZread, IMO. Simple , straightforward instructions. He backs up the theory of what he's doing by showing us the excellent imagery of the edge. From an ease of use and lack of mess point of view, I sharpen on cheap diamond stones from Temu, with a strop. If anyone wants to learn sharpening, my tip would be to not start on stainless steel kitchen knives, which are relatively difficult to form a burr and need more work because of their length. To learn the basics, pick up a small Opinel knife, the carbon steel one, not the "Inox" which is stainless. The carbon steel forms a burr really easily and the burr comes off easily too. And it takes a really short time to do because the blade is so small. Once you understand the process with the Opinel, you can go to other more difficult knives

I honestly love watching your videos. Iv watched this video 6 times … thanks for showing how it’s done

Well, I appreciate you providing a real-time sharpening video. With the knowledge I was taught, knives were never really “sharp” and wouldn’t maintain the edge. I’m getting better, but still have some bad habits to change. Seeing you doing your things helps improve my skills 💁🏼‍♂️ thank you for sharing the knowledge. Hope things are headed in a positive direction with your health.

Happy Easter 👍😁🥰 God Bless 🙏😇❤️🇺🇸

So glad to see your up and about!

Great vid! So good to see you back! Gettings from Brazil!

Yes. These are super helpful!

Thanks for the video Alex. Happy Easter.

Really appreciate these types of videos!

I'm glad to see you still grinding, literally and figuratively. Keep it up!

Another excellent instructional video!

Great to see you are feeling better Alex💪keep the great videos coming!! Thoughts and prayers and stay sharp 👍

Love it. Thank you!

One of your best videos!!!

Glad you're on the mend!

Thank you for the content & sharing knowledge.

Great tutorial, thanks!

You touched on sharpening with only the course stone to have some "teeth". Thinking this may be the best advice ever for us kitchen folk as a bit of tooth really helps. Even if I'm prepared to do all of the polishing, how would a super-duper polished edge benefit a kitchen knife? I think maybe a longer lasting edge, but is that all? Got that SHARPAL stone, very nice. THANK YOU for teaching all of this. Greatly appreciated.

@USSMariner

Ай бұрын

IIRC edge retention also involves the steel of the knife. Then again, he sharpened a 1 dollar kitchen knife and it whittled a 2x4 for hours so maybe it's much ado about nothing.

@jamesruth100

Ай бұрын

@@USSMariner Yeah, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of factors that are relevant for edge retention. The type of steel, the quality of the actual bar stock, quality of the heat treatment, the kind of grind, the knife's thickness, the angle it's sharpened at, what level it's sharpened to, the material you're cutting into, etc.; it's insanely complex.

@leonchao7247

Ай бұрын

A very polished edge is good for slicing delicate proteins without tearing them. 3000 grit is a sweet spot for most kitchen tasks however

Great tutorial! Thank you and happy Easter to you and your family! 🙋🏼‍♂️

You have helped demystify this incredibly. Awesome work!

Excellent video, very helpful, actionable advice.

Yeah!!! Another Alex video. Hope you continue to heal.

Truly a fantastic teacher.

Hey Alex. Thanks for the video. So glad to see you doing what you do best. You are a great teacher.

So right. Muscle memory and paying attention to what's happening. Still the best macro edge photography on YT!

This is the video I needed. Thank you!

The sharpening master at it again! 🙏

Good to hear you are well. You have helped me to understand knives better. Love your videos and hope total recovery for you. Love your vids💪🏼❤️

First of all . HAPPY EASTER, hope youre doing well! Great video! Thanks bud❤

Thank you for the advice

Thank you so much for the tutorial!! Outstanding information. Hopefully I’m able to apply your teaching.

Good video. Very helpful. I'm bookmarking this one. Thanks.

I heard the word recovering, that’s outstanding and thanks for another outstanding video!

I really appreciate the detail you put into this and the in-between shots of the edge. Thanks for sharing your experience and stay well!

Keep doing these... love them

Perfect basics, thx!

Thanks for this - really helpful.

Super useful video. Thanks!

Yes. This video pretty much sums up all my beginner questions (and answers them). Gonna do some coarse stone practice the next weeks. Thank you so much!

Thank you very much for this video. Really helped clear a couple of questions.

Good to see you are getting better and recovering; please take care of your health. Cheers, & thanks for the video

Nice ive been waiting for a video like this. Didnt disappoint, thanks a bunch

Glad youre working with your hands boss!

I got into knife sharpening because of your amazing videos. Thank you!!!

I'm waiting for a mirror edge long format video. Stones used, fatigue, little adjustments while sharpening between the lower and higher grits. I'm two Amazon affiliate links in. Give me something to show off to my friends this summer with a mirror edge santoku.

Im so glad to see your videos in my feed again

Great to see you making videos! I bought the sharpal from your last video and am awaiting it arrival, very excited, because I bought Norton stones years ago, for way too much money, and they are a giant mess to use. Thank you for your work!

@OUTDOORS55

Ай бұрын

I have the nortons as well. Used them for years but hated the mess. Never again 😂👍

@arubanjames

Ай бұрын

@@OUTDOORS55 I bought the shapton 2000, the sharpal 400-1500, and the cheap China diamond stone so I can leave it in my work bag for field sharpening chisels and such when I’m not home. I can’t wait to try them, and I went back to your video so I could use your link. Thanks brother! I hope all is well!

Nice to see your spirits are higher than last week, great demonstration as always. Best wishes from here in the UK.

Hope you’re feeling better! Great video, easy too follow.

Very useful thanks!!

Very helpful, thank you.

Glad to see your feeling better, all of your videos are most informative and entertaining, on a final note I purchased the Sharpal stone after your previous review & I'm very happy with it, cheers, 😎👍👍

Very helpful seeing real time sharpening, much more helpful than the fast forwarded examples in other videos. The sound the knife makes, the hand movement, you can even get a feel for how much pressure is used. Keeping the two bevels matched is a cue I've never thought of, I will try to implement it next time.

Great video, Alex!

Thanks my friend! This could be a boring video but was great, very honest, direct and informative. Congrats

Great video. Thanks!

I love these real time sharpening videos. I consider myself to be a pretty ok hand sharpener, and it's all pretty much because of you. When I first started sharpening, I had no idea. But a few years of watching your videos and practicing, I'm a lot better than I was! Thanks Alex!

@OUTDOORS55

Ай бұрын

Right on👊

This is a really good video and thank you for doing this. Big thumbs UP.

Glad to see you are recovering

Thanks to videos from you and kneeves knives, ive gone from conpletely inconpetent to sharpening up a few knives at a time in a few short minutes. Love these videos

Helpful insight. I hope you'll get better. Loved your last piece of advice. Practicing often shortly has been great to me.

I’m so glad that you made this video because I was really getting frustrated using less coarse grits

Happy Easter Alex glad you’re on the mend. Thanks for your great content i really trust your judgement & advice. I’m a complete novice & bought the same Sharpal to start learning the skills required & even though I’m making the usual rookie mistakes my blades are sharper than they have ever been without using a strop. Onwards & upwards. Thanks again bud. 👍

Very helpful, thanks.

SUPER useful!! Thank for continuing to teach us how to hand sharpen! And showing us how it really is simple once you have the basics down. Going slow as you're learning is so important, to me anyway. Hoping for your continued healing!

that edge is just beautiful, holy

ALWAYS helpful! 👍🍻

Happy Easter! And I hope you are continuing to get healed! Enjoyed the video.👍🏻

I even found this video VERY helpful!

You are hands down the best. You are ridiculously humble which adds to your relatability as well as how you (whether intended or not) instill in the viewer a feeling of confidence that they can become a great freehand sharpener. It's been a couple years for me personally and while I can't always get every knife I sharpen hair whittling sharp, thanks to your videos and a Lot of practice there's no knife in any steel (with proper heat treatment) that takes me longer than a couple minutes to get an edge that's hair popping sharp. Thank You

Thank you, Alex.

I recently started watching your videos and just ordered the two sided diamond stone you recommended and the tools I need to make a strop, I went found you when I went looking for a person that could help me find the right tools and proper techniques to sharpen knifes since my cheap kitchen sharpeners where not doing the trick that you for all your help!

Amazing macros of the apex! That takes some time and effort fot sure but I guess this helps beginners to get a better understanding of whats going on during the sharpening process.

Happy Easter bud! You're why I know how to properly sharpen knives.

Solid info as always.

I started about a month ago. I got a cheap set for my bday and bought the sharpal a couple of weeks ago and a good strop and have learnt tons from your videos. I'm getting good results whilst still learning. Great to see you posting and by far the best content I have seen. Thank you.

It's amazing when you sharpen your s110v knife to a straight shape.

You do the best videos. Clear, concise, and thorough, with an occasional touch of comedy. Thanks for the great views.

Great video. Thanks for always putting out useful informative content. Glad to see you’re doing alright.

Took your advice. Waiting for the Sharpal to arrive. Can't wait to finally learn how to properly sharpen a knife. God bless you.

Thanks Alex !

Thank you, this was perfect. Hope you are feeling better.

Hi, happy Easter to you too! Thank you for your sharpening tips, it's really helpful. Btw, you have made me want to buy that Sharpal diamond stone, no regrets at all!! Awesome stone! Need a diamond compound strop now ^^

Thank you! Love your videos! Hope your recovery is going well!!

@acartersmith

Ай бұрын

Bought the sharpal stone you are using. Now I’m am watching all your videos again before I summon up the courage to try and actually sharpen a blade!