How to Sharpen a Knife with a Whetstone – Sharpening Dull Kitchen Knife to Extremely Sharp

As a retired meat cutter and knife sharpening EXPERT in an everyday job where sharp knives with a durable edge are our main TOOL , this is 100% correct.
Anyone who promotes any other method is a fraud. A knife needs to be sharp but equally important is a durable edge, this technique will accomplish both.
Another excellent channel to learn this is " the bearded Butchers"

Thank you good sir

If you're fine with a decently sharp knife, you don't have to do that many strokes or that slowly, just do the movements shown in the first 33 seconds a few times and test it on your clothes or something, if it does a bit of damage, you're good to go, but if you want a razor edge, go ahead with the rest of the video, as it doesn't hurt (unless you do it wrong) do have a sharper knife

Meanwhile coomer using 10000 grit

Thanks for the instructions and getting straight to it.

Ez_Pz

Will the whetstone take of the plastic front the ange guide?

Perfect, thank you!!!!!!!

This is VERY informative, clear, and understandable, and to the point, my preferred vid out of the 7 or so I've watched thus far;

The video quality is a little surreal, however, that adds to the dynamic it seems

Right to the point! Cheers!

Hi.
Thank you for the video.
A short and concise video is always preferable to a long confusing one.

As for the process of sharpening itself, about the movement of the hands more specifically, I am a promoter of sharpening a blade in segments - something like heel, belly, tip (not necesarelly in that order) because sharpening from tip to heel (or from heel to tip) requires a more tiresome attention at keeping the blade closer to the starting angle. Twisting, bending, curling, rotating arms require more effort than pushing and pulling arms.
Also, the pressure should be applied on the blade when the blade is not scraping the stone.

Cheers.

Thank you for making a short and sweet video on this!! Much appreciated.

Great simple quick video

Fantastic tutorial. Straight to the point

I subbed and liked and shared, everyone in the comments is right, you taught us no bullshit. I appreciate being straight to the point on “how to” videos

LOVED THIS!!!! Straight to the point, no extraneous waffling or talking to the viewer like they're a toddler. EXCELLENT TUTORIAL!!!👍

Great vid mate.

Thank you. 👍🏾

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Great video, simple and to the point, maybe I could do it after all. I purchased that very Stone. Thank you.

I wish I was ambidextrous like you

Cheers, couldn't be arsed about the instructions and your demonstration is brilliant, now it's like a red hot knife through butter 👍

Good video, but I don't like the right-wing political ads.

I don't want to point out the obvious. But am i the only one that noticed he doesn't sharpen the whole knife?

Straight to the point short video, good stuff thanks!!

Is this sharpening the right direction? Other tutorials I’ve seen have you trail the blade away from you not vice versa

Good 3 min video. All the other ones are 10 minutes for bo real reason.

Thank you for the easy, quick intro' to sharpening with an affordable whetstone. The usual 30-minute plus tutorials are good - once you've actually given it a go, and want to dive deeper into the subject - but a bit too much for an enthusiast, who just wants to get an edge on their knife and get on with cooking.

Stone available now Pakistan plz

i bought the same kit. it also comes with a small block whetstone. what's that for?

They got that same setup on TEMU for half that price.

Glad I could watch this and not a 30 minute video

Isn't this the exact opposite way to sharpen the knife? If the edge is pointing away from you, you should be applying pressure when moving the knife towards you, not when moving it forward. At least that's what I've seen in many other videos..

Thank christ, a video that tells you what you need to do instead of telling me literally everything else for thirty minutes

Great video straight to the point!

You shouldn't submerge stones over 3000, it will cause them to crack or degrade - they only need to be splashed. Stones under 3000 can be soaked for up to 15 minutes.

Great video. Every other one was far too complicated

Great video! Question: If you are doing multiple knives, how often do you add water to the stone? Thanks!

Really clear and sharp with no long explanations. Thank you.

My whetstone came with a smaller white rectangular stone but there’s no grit on it, any idea what it’s for?

Aha, here’s the only video that uses the same stone and knife as me :D

Straight to the point! Thank you for sharing.

Thank you. None of the 25+ min intro nonsense but just straight to the point in succinct. Best video out there.

🙏🙏 Thank you sir!

I haven't had any success using my whetstones so far, even after following several tutorials. My knife was so blunt after an hour of sharpening with the stones, tomatoes just laughed at it. This method looks much easier than the other methods I've tried though, so I'll give a try next time.
If I still suck at it, then guess I'm back to using a pull through sharpener instead.

Excellent

Thank you. Concise and straight to the point, exactly what I needed

What if you only have an oil stone?

Thanks I finally know how to use it! I realized I didn't submerge it enough and didn't sharpen it correctly.

thank you for the Quick and to the point vid. very helpful