As a novice in knife sharpening I am trying to learn as much as I can and there is very little information out there. Could you give me some tips on how to hold the knife in my hand for a better sharpening and how to place my other hand on the knife to help. Secondly, does the shape of the knife direct the sharpening style? I mostly sharpen kitchen knives and chef knives. Thank you for any information you may want to throw at me and thank you for the videos.
@TOGITOGI5 жыл бұрын
the way of holding handle is various style. mainly I clamp the blade by thumb and firstfinger and hold the handle by the other three fingers. sometime I hold only by clamping blade with thumb and first finger. some time I hold only by three fingers without thmb and first finger. some time I hold with stretch out a firstfinger and attach it to the peak of the knife. What important is to keep angle of the knife. The hand holding handle does the role of keeping angle. The other hand on the knife does assist. So assisting hand should not put knife too strong.
Could you share some knowledge? I am sharpening a Santoku knife that has a secondary bevel on it and I am having difficulties with it, the cutting edge is not equally wide along the length of the edge of the knife, I think my hand (the hand that is holding the knife) needs to adjust to the curved blade. What can I change to improve this? Movement? Holding the handle? Thank you.
@TOGITOGI5 жыл бұрын
If the angle of cutting edge is the same, and the thickness of the blade near by edge is the same, the width of cutting edge become equally. First of all, you must find that why the width is not equal. If you don't, we cannot determine what is wrong. If it is a reason that the thickness of the blade is not the same, the width does not need to be equal. There may be nothing wrong. When I sharpen the curving part at the same angle, I rise the handle side. For such motion, whetstone must put on proper height. Height of the stone is very important.
@bogdanmoldovan35555 жыл бұрын
@@TOGITOGI To be more clear about it, the owner of the knife (and 5 other knives that came in) used an angle grinder to sharpen them and got ruined. The Santoku knife is gradually getting thinner as you get to the tip, and the cutting edge has a more pronounced curve than the Santoku you sharpened in your video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f81_gpuJxLiVYok.html My thoughts are to sharpen the knife following the curvature of the knife from the heel to the tip in one fluid motion because insisting in one place would flatten that area of the knife. Thinking more about it I think I have to relax my holding hand and follow the knife. I would really appreciate your opinion on this as I can see you are far more experienced. Thank you for the will to share your knowledge and thank you for the videos.
@TOGITOGI5 жыл бұрын
I think that the most important thing is to know that "insisting in one place would flatten that area of the knife". In order to straighten a bent knife, we must sharpen one place. In order to sharpen a straight knife straight, we must sharpen the whole straight part equally. In order to sharpen the long part at once, we have to move knives widely. The technique which can move knives widely is important. Practice is necessary for that. I'm teaching my students to hold the handle of knives firmly and move their wrist smooth. Actually I may not hold the handle strongly. There are exceptions depending on the situation. However, in many cases I hold firmly.
@bogdanmoldovan35555 жыл бұрын
@@TOGITOGI It is becoming more and more obvious to me that I do need more practice. Thank you so much for the information you shared, it helped more than you know. The Santoku knife is done, the cutting edge is equally wide along the length of the knife and cuts effortlessly through anything and shaves like a razor. Thank you again. I have a small 120/800 grit ceramic combination stone (no name and very old) and an Imanishi Bester 1000/6000 grit combination stone that I purchased last spring. What stones would you recommend me so I can make a good sharpening set?
@TOGITOGI5 жыл бұрын
@@bogdanmoldovan3555 I often get asked about the whetstones. In Japan, there are very various kinds of whetstones and I don't know which is the best. I choose the whetstone that it is not bad to use in the whetstone that I can purchase at a hall sale price from the company making a deal. These are "Enough", not "Best". I don't have much experience of using about the whetstone of other brands. I do not have confidence that I can introduce the whetstones that can be said to be absolutely better than your stones.
@@AhmadJumul 1 shaku (30cm) yanagi sashimi knife. Make slurry and flatten stone (curved stone bad for sharpening). He continuously emphasise the importance of flattening in the video, and how to flatten and target the corners, as corners often aren't used in sharpening. Clean the handle because quite often you will find fish scales stuck to it. Check ura (concave side), grind depending on condition, leave alone if it's ok. Positioning of fingers is important because of the pressure placed, you don't want to grind the wrong ratio of iron or steel. Use fingers to control angle when sharpening. Try to use the whole stone to sharpen as much of the knife in one stroke, sharpening portion by portion could cause problems.