The squeaky toy had us dying 😂 Great to see the raw process - and the frustrations that can come with it. Great video, guys! 👍

How refreshing to have a real person who can suffer the same challenges as the rest of us, instead of a clearly processed and purified version. The squeaky toy after the fails just cracked me up. Kudos to Josh for sticking with it!

Like the others said, thanks for not editting it out and letting us rookies know that even pro's need to take their time.

Thanks for not editing the fails out of the video. We learn by watching the bad with the good. And how we need to improve our techniques.

It's great to hear someone talk about the importance of sharpening through the different grit sizes. A lot of videos on knife sharpening dismiss that and think that it is not necessary to work through the different grits. That's where I disagree with them. Going from a 320 grit to an 8000 grit or from a 600 grit to an 8000 grit only produces a sharp serrated edge. A better edge is produced by working through the grits to get a nice smooth polished edge (mirror finish) that should even cut against the end grain of a piece of hard wood timber. By watching so many knife sharpening videos I don't think many people know how to do this or have not reached this level of competency.

This is a brilliant video. Thank you for sharing such an honest experience of sharpening that every sharpener has gone through... Now, can the Worksharp engineers please, please please invent a sharpeness tester that makes that squeaky noise when the edge isn’t ready yet? :)

Been There and done that. Thanks for making it real and not some hollowood video. I have to go back often and take my time to get it show perfect.

I think the paper got slightly damp from the humid air, whereas the paper from the magazine has a glossy coating, protecting it from humidity. I've done that with mail I in my workshop and then realized what was happening. Went inside, got some "fresh" mail, worked great. As an added bonus, I was shredding evidence of certain purchases my wife didn't need to know about.

Good job Josh!!!! Jajajajaja people know you are the best and those things used to happen, in those cases the best we can do is take a little rest to breath and start again with patience, it mustn't be easy with the camera pressure there. Thanks for the video!!!

love how the antlers line up over his head often, once you see it you can't unsee it.

Josh....thank you for honesty.... gonna be patient as I sharpen my Old-timer I've named Uncle Grant

Perfectly honest video! Just like in my garage, slice that paper, not, and do some more sharpening. Then, slice that paper, yes!

Thank you so much for leaving the fails in. A helpful reminder that it's okay if things don't work first time round.

Hands down one of the best knife sharpening videos I’ve seen.

I really enjoy the "clean cut / fail counter". I thought it only happened to me.

Lol, reality check, we’ve all been there! I’m just thankful there wasn’t a camera recording me...lol

Thanks I am glad you proved it is not as easy as it looks

Im glad it isnt just me that gets a pretty decent edge on my working knife...then decide to perfect it and dull the whole blade

Thanks buddy for keeping it real.

Awesome video which shows some of the frustrations that i also feel, very good entertaintment! Good work showing this, and not editing it out. Not sure if you have covered it yet, but discussion the method to determining the sharpness of a knife could be highly interesting, as these cut in paper, tomato, sponges gets a bit unscientific at times.....

Nice job. It doesn't always come out perfect. Free hand I have better luck on kitchen knives. For pocket knives I use my precision adjust.i bought an Ontario sp6 that came with a bad edge. Tried it 4 times on the guided sharpening system, just couldn't get there. Bought a worksharp mark 2 for it and it's acceptable now. Don't know what it's problem was.

Great video! It’s so comforting to know that this happens in real life for pros too. I do have a question: do you recommend using stropping strokes as well as cutting strokes on lower grits? I understand that you should not use stropping strokes on the higher grits 🤔 I look forward to more videos!

The problem with the paper test is that paper has grains. Cutting with the grain is easy for a sharp knife, cutting across the grain may produce some difficulties and be unsuccessful. But a really sharp knife should cut to some extent even across the grain. Great video.

Whats the knife he is using here? Neat colors on the scales

Is Doug Holser still around. Or did he Retire ?

is the jiggle of the triangle shape sharpener meant to that

Great 👍 Video 🇺🇸🔪🔥💨

When you’ve raised a burr on both sides, can you feel it in both like when you hung the fish hook?

'Why it isn't sharp?' That's the question I ask myself every time. 😅

Doesnt help when the stones moving around😢

Try with your left hand. You'll be amazed

8:01 lmaoooo

What grit is the ceramic?

That looks like a SOG AEGIS, I bought it and regrettably gave it to a friend that doesn't use it lmao

Pretty sure there was plenty of stropping in this video, although not the knife sharpening kind 😂

Lol, now i feel better

Looks like he's got antlers

Everything is mowing

A stone that wiggles around can't be helping