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okay so today we're going to take a look at some wet stones this is not a how to sharpen a knife video well anyway I'll try not to do that if you're interested in that I have plenty other videos that show that and of course there's many on YouTube this is more of a testing of sharp pebble whetstone now many people have asked me through the years through watching me sharpen my knives with wet stones where do I get them and back in the day well I used to get them in Japan and eat of course they came you know in North America and they're quite expensive but now this company sharp pebble has some good quality stones at a very good price and that's what we're gonna look at today so as I said before the company name is sharp pebble right off the bat I'm very pleased with this company just because of their honesty they did mention that these stones were made in China but all the material is imported from Japan you know to keep the stones at low costs so that people like you and me can have some good stones to be able to use them to sharpen our knives all right so I have a couple of stones first one I have three thousand eight thousand grit and the other one is four hundred and one thousand grit now they all come with this rubber that you take off and put back also comes with this beautiful stand which i think is looks like bamboo not quite sure hundred percent but it's got a nice clear coat on it so there's no worries about water and it's got rubber behind so it doesn't move and this fits nice and snug into the piece of wood there so it doesn't move I really like this also they include this other stone that is a little coarser than your normal stones now eventually even though when you do sharpen your knives try and use the whole stone to keep keep it as level as you can but sadly we're not perfect it will eventually dig in the middle so you need to even it and they provided this which is really awesome first time I see that in the company where you just go back and forth and even it and a little trick actually what you do you take your sharpie and you make black lines you start at the tip and every about every inch you just put it on the stone after that use your this rock here or the stone and you even it and you don't stop until the black lines are all gone that way you'll know that it's nice and even now before you can use these stones you need to soak these into water for about you know ten to fifteen minutes depending on you know the bubbles you'll see when you put it in you'll see a whole bunch of bubbles because this is full of pores and this rock needs to be full of water if you want to be able to sharpen your knife properly now I'm going to use the boat both the stone but I don't really need today the 400 400 is really when your your knife is really dull and the knife I have is not you know butter knife dull but it's not scary sharp either so I still will use a thousand

and I will use this one as well you see those bubbles that's filling up with water so you just wait until those bubbles leave or stop so while we're waiting for the stones to be ready let me tell you the reason why I love I should have three reasons why I love water stones now this is for a home sharpening first this is all personal preference and just an opinion first it uses water now water is not as dirty as oil or whatever you know exists out there it's clean and it's also readily available if you bring your stones wherever you go you can find water pretty much anywhere the second reason is that because there are water stones they will take off just the right amount of Steel for your knife to become sharp you know instead of taking too much off and you know bringing your grind really low when it doesn't need to so you're saving on your knife actually and the third reason is you can actually polish your steel to a nice mirror polish I won't do that today cuz I because of time but you can do it okay so freehand sharpening is is not easy especially if you're starting and if there's beginners out there I really strongly recommend for you to get into it now I'm going to tell you that the first time you try it it won't work and you'll probably get discouraged but don't it's a skill and skills need to be practice and the more you practice the more you gain experience and the more gained experience well the better results you get and that's like in any skills and let me tell you it's very rewarding and it's something that actually relaxes me when I sharpen not and to me personally there's no better way of sharpening knives at home than with water stones it doesn't matter what type of Steel you use and whatever the grind is on your knife the water stones will do the job in an excellent way now of course the key factor in sharpening any knife is always the angle whatever angle you have on a knife you got to keep it you know perfect on both sides logically if you have these are one angle one side or the other angle logically if you bring them perfectly to a point this edge here will be very very sharp okay and logically also if you don't get your angle right let's say this one is like that and that one I know is stretching it with the fingers there but I know you're even getting my point if it's rounder you'll never get that edge sharp impossible so it's important to figure out what your angle is and start sharpening now this knife here is the one we're going to be sharpening today now this is my outdoor knife it needs to be sharpened because it's not scary sharp like I like him it's the knife that I use mostly outdoors but this is what we call a Scandi grind you got a flat surface then you have a long grind that goes to you know zero flat there's no third bevel there so what you do is you place your knife on the stone and you find your angle which means that this has to disappear you see this between the stone and the cutting edge where there's a gap it needs to go so if I close it this way you see how it goes that way I know that this is the right angle I need to sharpen okay now this is another knife now this one is a flat okay flat grind but it has a secondary bevel okay which mean it goes down and then it goes at another angle the stat angle you need to sharpen now any knife they go between 15 and 25 degrees now most kitchen knives will be between 15 and 20 when you get into more outdoor knives they'll tend to play between 20 and 25 and even some will go up to 30 but it's the same procedure okay do this boom but this one is is the angle is really shallow there's not much of an angle compared to that one so I give this one between 15 and 20 and it's the same if you have a a flat completely flat now this is a a kitchen knife this is completely flat it doesn't have any secondary bevel now this one will be very slim okay I just closed it a bit you see that how there's not much that would be the a 15 degree probably 18 maybe I don't know but that's one little tip now it won't make you perfect the first time you still need to figure out because you need to move with this but it's just a little tip I thought I'd add one last thing I think it'd be important to add before we start sharpening is to understand a little bit to steel now the cutting edge of any knife if you put it you know in a microscope you're gonna see that the steel goes up like this okay

you got little tiny lines so when your knife is not sharp okay let's take this hand it's better looking maybe when your knife is not sharp it's round like your fingers and the little steel is separated so that's why it doesn't cut now when you use the Waterstones let's say I use the thousand when I'm finished with the thousand that the round here will become pointy but the steel is still separated so when you go and hone it right up to three thousand eight thousand I mean yeah eight thousand Oprah it'll do it it's going to blend everything together so now your steel is blended together you have a nice point and that's what we call retention that's how it's going to hold an edge the longest okay it's time for sharpening I'm very excited I want to see if these stones will perform as well as my older ones which I have no worries just by the look and touching in the feel so we're gonna do this outdoor knife and of course I'm not going to show the whole process because of time but I'm going to go through the one thousand three thousand and eight thousand now normally when you do start I always have three fingers and my thumb behind when you begin you just and this little pinky here on the tip you want to just give equal strokes now the tip here when you get to the tip you need to lift this end up here a little bit higher to get the right angle here so I slide I lift I get the tip okay so what you want to do is do even strokes now if you're not used to it you can come back like this but I can do both ways okay now that's what you'd normally do but I don't do that I have another method that I do and it's my preferred method because it goes faster and you don't need to do this but I do that with all the grinds that exist except Hall brine which I will just do one shot and you know each side so what I do is I concentrate on the strength sorry the straight part first then the round the belly and then the tip you want to try and use all the stones as much as possible then I do the tip now this is going to be a good test cuz this steel here is CPM 3v which is a super steel which is a little harder to sharpen then you know your typical Steel's like Oh 110 at 95 and lower so it'll be a good test now the black stuff that you see is actually the steel that's coming off your blade so I'm going to sharpen and we'll take a look at it at the end all right so I'm done with this one now you want to keep this always clean you can use a little brush or a little right but the steel you want to keep it off because if you don't you know stop you from sharpening because it fills up the pores and something that's really that I'm finding compared to my other stones this really cleans nice and sharpens quick so let's do two more 3000 great thousand

ok I'm done I have to say that this does not take long hmm okay now again I didn't try and polish it okay I just want to show you the clean adage it gave maybe you won't see it as well as I'd like you to see it but I would have taken much to polish it mirror polish that's for sure very clean edge okay now time to see if this thing is really sharp okay my best way is using a phone book paper okay it's very thin and flimsy and what we're gonna do is I'm not even going to try and slice it I'm just going to no it's kind of awkward but anyway I'm just gonna let the weight of the knife hey this is pretty thick blade just let the weight of the knife see if it's gonna go through the paper I'm not even gonna let it down let it go I'm just going to hold it on the piece of paper and just drop it okay

do that again sorry that's sharp I have to show you this way maybe one last time if it doesn't get caught that's sharp folks okay so in conclusion what are my less thoughts well I have to say and this is not for the sake of this video okay when there's something wrong about something I will say it but I really enjoy sharp sharpening this knife more than my other stone I don't know why me is it because they're new but it's so smooth and it's so much easier to clean

anyway positive sides on it the price point I mean you get a wooden frame here that doesn't move at all and you get quality stones for a good price so that's a big plus good price nice frame and plus I like wood or if it's bamboo I think it looks great and everything fits snug you know with the rubber ok comes with each stone and I love really like that they've included this to even out the stone I used to use a big sandpaper and go on the sandpaper but this will be so much easier again I'm pretty sure you need to wet it down a little bit and you just go even and that's gonna be just great so I give it a big 9 out of 10 and I highly recommend it if you're looking into stones I know some of you have been receiving emails and stuff this is it this company is based in California in the u.s. again made in China but all the stuff is imported from Japan so it's good stuff and with the 8000 grit here I didn't even need to strop it these two stones that's all I need so again I thank you for watching I hope you enjoyed this video and as usual I will leave the links if you're interested in the description of this video where you can get these this is microplush rep Barton's bye [Music]

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