When will this rock be listed on the Burrfection Amazon shop?

From one experienced sharpener to another, this was hilarious. When you looked up at the camera with the fearful look in your eye and you said “no burr” I lost it. 😂👍

I work in a press facility, I can tell you that magazines often have coated paper which can be silicates, petrochemicals, and/or wax. Often they are printed on long grain pulp paper as well. Printer paper is some of the most refined paper, with the shortest grain. Notebook paper is in between.

When I was in Africa, all the local guys sharpened their pangas on rocks! I was amazed at how good an edge they could get.

Ryky could sharpen a knife on a frozen stick of butter 🧈🔪 if it was frozen hard enough!!

rolled up towel wrapped around the base of the rock would be my first choice of holding it still

I love these videos. It definitely shows how it’s ok to not be perfect and how to adjust while sharpening, even if your working on a good whetstone. And I know for those of us with less experience, it makes it much less discouraging when we make mistakes.

Rocky is awesome. Bryky would be proud. You should start a series where your viewers send you random things to use to sharpen knives 😉

It feels kinda weird watching a KZfaqr that lives in the same city as you. But it feels nice to support another Sacramento Civi.

My grandma showed me a way to sharpen a chinese cleaver with the bottom of a ceramic eating bowl, it does its job since that part isn't glazed. She told me that it was quite good for sharpening in times of need.

As the original person who suggested sharpening on the brick, I approve 100%. Great to come back to the channel and see how much this has blown up. (You read my comment suggesting it in a Q&A video way back in the day.)

omg you did the video! AMAZING! I wish I could sharpen my knives on my whetstones as good as you sharpen on a rock and brick lol!

Now sharpen a knife on the concrete sidewalk. Make the neighbors really scared.

Ryky, it would be cool to watch you sharpen a 240mm Gyuto on a nagura size whetstone just to demonstrate that it’s your relationship with the tools more than having the best tools. Great video, I’m now going to sharpen my knife on the bottom of my coffee mug.

To be honest I am sharpening flipping the burr twice and I go to a strop with stropping compound. From a sharpening stone, I can't get to razor-sharp but once I strop everything changes and I can smile because I have a shave ready knife. :)

I have no idea why I am even watching this. But the sound the sharpening makes is so nice :)

New fan as well as knife sharpener here. Been watching your videos nonstop over the past day, and I've learned enough through your videos to understand what was so funny about 9:00 when you were looking for a slur. Excellent work and thank you!

I lost it a couple of times 😂 a man who's not afraid of a challenge kudos to you !!! A method that's been used for thousands of years.

A few weeks ago I tried sharpening cheap dull kitchen knives on my great grandfather's sharpening stone using the help from your videos. It's a small triangular piece of rock no more than 10cm long and 5cm wide at the base with kinda flat surface. The grit felt really good though. Oh my was it an adventure... At first I couldn't fix the stone in a way that it was stable enough to sharpen on (my great grandfather probably sharpened knifes by holding the knife still while moving the stone). When I managed that and started sharpening I couldn't get any result. I started pressing harder and harder and got the surface of my cheap flexible knife all scratched up by using inconsistent and often times completely wrong angle. At some point I started making progress and could feel the edge getting sharper. A day later I went back to your video and tried to get a burr and do the counting down method. At that point I got a lot more comfortable with the process and started really enjoying it. I did the paper cut and could very inconsistently cut trough the paper. A few knives later I managed to get the result similar to this video after the first stropping. I was on cloud nine! This was a super fun video for me to watch a after all that. Thanks for all the entertaining, funny and satisfying videos mate! My first sharpening session was a success in my eyes because of you. Recently had some chopping to do and my knives performed better than ever. Keep up the good work!

2:30 knife: doesn’t cut paper burrfection: throws away perfectly good paper

Really love the straight profile of that knife. Definitely going to be one of my next purchases including the petty.

It would be great if you done a video on sharpening serrated blades great video keep up the great work

Try sharpening entirely on a steel honing rod, like the barbecue chefs (or meat shop clerks) here in Brazil do!

Stand the rock on end and split it with a sledgehammer gradually hitting it with incremental force until it splits, or better yet take it to someone with a water jet cutter to get a decently cut stone, then take a flattening stone to it...now that might give the rock a little better credit....it'd be interesting

it does on razors too, really cool

I love how he went back at it

Is there a specific calculation used for determining the counting down stuff ? Ie. what you said at 11minute mark.

I'm not used to the rockwell scale but according to the internet Quarts is rated at about 60. Quarts is probably the most relevant mineral when talking knife sharpening as it is the most common mineral and also the hardest common mineral. But when you're just grabbing a rock it will be composed of several different minerals so you also get a lot of softer ones, feldspars being the most common group of minerals. Though softer than quarts feldspars are still pretty hard, but should be much less effective than quarts for really hard edges. So yeah, I totally agree with your conclusions concerning hardness.

Very nice vid . One question only im trying to find a nice medium to curse stone around 2000 grit and the best one that is available to me is the kasumi pink marble 2000#. Should i get it ??

I never thought I'd feel a sound so intently as that first slice... Then you start trying to saw the rock in half, and I lost it.

Had to come watch this video again xD its just that great!

Reminds me of this video about a guy picking up some river rocks about the size of the palm of your hand, maybe a bit larger, and then rubbing them together to make a flat spot. He then went to use that as a whetstone. Took him about ten minutes to make a crude whetstone, worked surprisingly well too.

I had a question, I just purchased 2 shun knives from Cutlery and More, the Sora 6 and 8 Inch chefs knives, one for me and one for a close friend. We are both early culinary students and this was my first pay check from my first job in the industry, I'm both excited and really nervous to get them in the mail tomorrow, because im worried they might chip in shipping or even lose a tip. Does Shun still do the Lifetime sharpening and the warranty for knives sold through Cutlery or would I be just completely down the river without a paddle if they were to get damaged or needed to be sharpened at any point in the future?

I am so glad you did not replace Mr Brick!

I read the title and thought you were going to take a relatively flat rock and sharpen it. I'm honestly a bit disappointed :)

33:00 "I really like this ($150) knife" while showing aggressively dulling the knife on the garden rock...

I have used and I still use smoothed rounded quartz cobbles to hone an edge. They require a careful approach, but they work just as honing steel would (normal honing steel, not diamond-dust coated). In a pinch, I have also used flattened phyllite (metamorphic shale) rock to sharpen a very dull cheap knife. Not to razor-sharp, but sharp enough.

Have you ever reviewed the enso knife bag?

I have sharpened some knives on a ceramic gratin dish. But sharpening on a rock is definitely something different. Pretty interesting to see

Hi, awesome video, I was wondering if you could help me find a 270MM AOGAMI SUPER KUROUCHI GYUTO, preferably ZAKURI, but I have tried many websites, which is all sold out. Can you recommend any? Cheers

Can you push and pull on a tri stone old bath sharpener?

Hey Ryky, I would love to see a video explaining what got you into knife sharpening as hobby. Interested in the timeline of your progression in the hobby and how long you have been sharpening. Do you have a life long love of knives or is it something that developed later in life? Just curious what got you into the hobby and how it progressed for you. Awesome channel and keep the content coming please.

Ryky, you should have started with a 600 grit rock to form a burr. 😂🤣

Good video I enjoyed this.

Cool video. I would suggest revisiting this idea when you have the opportunity to go to a river with better options and more choices so you can find the best stone. Besides the uneven surface and tipping, the grain size and type sounded like it wasn't uniform.

Awesome. I never imageined it would be possible to sharpen a knife on a rock - but you have taught me better. It would not be good to use in my kitchen, I really get angry if my knives do not cut as they should do in my opinion. I am quite happy with my tools now. I don't want to do some advertising, so I won't mention the producer: I am using diamond whetstones only. (Used japanise whetstones for over 30 years) I like the ease of using those modern ones: you don't need any pressure, just your fingers to guide the blade - the diamonds do all the work! I'm using 3 stones, medium, fine and extra fine. Stropping afterwards on 5 (!) puller straps coated with 3 different diamond abrasive pastes. I start with a 'coarse' chromedioxide paste, get the 6,3,1 micron diamond paste straps afterwards and finish with a greased leather. To get the leather in the best condition it takes me some time and that's what I've found out over many years: I am from Germany so I use Ballistol universal oil and soak the leather in it, leave it for a 24 hours and remove the excess the next day and apply the pastes (quite a lot of it) andrub it in (don't press too hard or your fingerprints will be gone). Leave it for another 24 hours. The oil/paste mixture gets the diamond particles deeper into the leather. I am now very happy with the results and I get really razor sharp results - I even tried shaving my beard with a chef knife once with a perfect close shave and without cutting myself. I would have loved your videos when I started sharpening - well there was no youtube at this time (not even the internet we all know now) - so I had to try and fail and retry over many, many years... Keep on with your helpful and sometimes strange things you try out, to get more people to buy and use those wonderful, handcrafted tools for cutting food. I believe that you ensure that the craftsmanship of knife-making does not die. Your subscribers can really see how much fun it is to tease the last bit of sharpness out of the blades - even with the worst tools you can imagine to use...

Next Rock Sharpening Challenge, do this for stability. get a small cardboard box or small wood box and fill it with dirt or sand and trow you rock in there, or wrap the rock with a wet towel to make like a bird nest.

What sharpening method is this?

Nice skills👍👍👍

Place the rock in a pan of sand, should do the trick.

Thats really a hart breaking when you did the rock part but at the end that was amazing 😉

these brick and rock sharpening video makes me think I can go and find, make my own sharpening stones, why not

try using oil, I use rock to remove debri of the sharpening stone from knife because I don't have strop.

what a legend

I have only done 'palm size stones' for small knives... but .. have you considered 'pre-soaked' from a river/lake? Plus depending on the water body .. they could be very smooth from erosion.

Ive done it b4. It creates lots of jagged edges that really grab and cut.

Not all rock are created equal when it comes to sharpening, there are course grain and fine grain rocks. It would be interesting to make a flat spot on a rock using a course diamond plate then do your sharping on the flat spot. Also some rocks taken out of streams are polished very fine and will get you a finer edge. I really appreciate you making this video, you are not afraid to try radical techniques, this in my opinion makes your channel a CUT ABOVE the competition.

Not bad. I'm just trying to get into sharpening. I'm somehow nervous about messing things up. Would you recommend to start with cheap knives?

Interesting result. I wonder if using another rock to develop a small sweet spot would have been faster with a better result?

Although the ones I use have been shaped a little bit most of my sharpening tools are rocks.

Looking forward to the review of the Kato 210mm knife... It's a beautiful hammered knife...

What about sharpening serrated knives?

I challenge u to create a grit progression to reprofile a knife on a set of common garden bricks, tiles, and paving stones. U may flatten them on each other or concrete. For example, could a granite tile replace a 2K stone?

Next video : Marble tiles

If there is no flat surface on the stone, then the movements should be small circular. And if you make movements along the entire edge, you will not be able to achieve normal sharpness.

Nice video, thank you for quality entertainment! :D I also have a question, would you review or give opinion about Glestain knives, please? Their non-stick properties are intriguing and I'd love to see them in real life test (expecially gyuto and small offset petty). Greetings from Poland ;) P.S. whetstone - for this comment not to be overlooked while searching questions for next Q&A video ;p

My mom has been sharpening her knives on the mortar and pestle same thing she makes her salsa.

That rock your useing is most likely a concrection ,,made up of mostly compressed clays and many differant stone fragments,very hard to use because of soft to hard alignments

That was legitimately pretty cool! It's good to know in the event you need to touch up a blade in the wilderness, or if you don't want to shell out the money for a proper whetstone. Or... if you just want to try for fun. Any chance you might try this out on different... rocks? slate? granite? marble? .... concrete? It would be fun to see if turns into a lead up into some more natural stones. I recall you doing the Arkansas stones.

Should have placed the rock on the shirt/towel like an egg in a nest & that could have offered more stability haha

The dulling of the blade part always makes me want to cry.

It would be cool to see you make a stone by flattening the face of a rock. Maybe figure out which kind of rock would work best and try and form your own stone. Maybe use a diamond grinding wheel on a grinder to rough in the face and then take a lapping playe to it for finishing

And that is why you don't want to sharpen on a rock:) Cheers, Rik Spector

My grandpa was a professional chef most of his life. He used a brick to sharpen our knives. Try using a brick :) :P

What kind of rock?

This is literally wet-stone sharpening 😂

This man can even sharpen your knife on a cheese grater.

always watching your sharpening session and appreciate your craft.but me, myself doesnt have any stone. hoping you could atleast gave me one of your stones. its hard and expensive to buy here in Philippines. hoping to inherit some of those.

What are you blowing on? or for?

Is granite good for sharpening? I can go to tombstone maker and pick up some granite leftovers to make sharpening stones!

make a doughnut out of a damp tea towel and set the stone in the center to keep the rock from rocking back and forth

I tried to sharpen on a rock but I didn't have too much success. Probably I got bored before getting to some decent results and I stopped. :)

Wish I had a knife like that one. :-) Just to expensive for me. That's what it is . Maybe one day.

Why does he blow on the knife and paper when cutting?

Could have used some play-do to stabilize the stone.

Next challenge- give yourself a budget of $20 US, and go buy some nail files. See if you can get a blade sharp with just nail files and water (and maybe a strop)

you just stropped , it will be sharp anyway

Lube all the moving parts of that horrible sounding garage door 😳

I wanna see how much you can do with a cardboard strop :D

rocktion!

Good demo, but long video, try make them about 10 minutes, that will be better in my opinion. Thanks

Try sharpening a pounamu patu on a wetstone🙏

I love that he kills the blade. Would love to have the skill to be able to bring it back. It like watching a magicians trick: "Please sir, may i have you knife, Now watch as i now make it useless. Now watch it reform into a new being". Ta da. Bet you didnt think you knife could do that" End of trick

Use a small stone and move the stone not the knife.

Could have half-burried the rock in a container filled with sand/dirt to stabilize it...you know, like in nature ;p

Huh. Do we need to name the rock now too?? I don't think you've settled on a name for the brick yet (Bryky!), have you?

A new type of weather forecaster.....when the rock is wet...it’s raining. Please sharpen some wood tools and garden shears scissors etc.

In the book "the reaper man", the "death" character uses a very interesting method for sharpening his scythe

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