hey dudes I'm Hilah and today on Hilah
cooking we're here at waggy knives we're
gonna talk to Travis Yee owner and
proprietor of this custom knife shop and
he's gonna sharpen some of my super dull
knives show you how to do that show you
how the knives are constructed I'm
really excited because knives are a
super important part of cooking that's
true we make custom chef's knives
santoku boning knives slicers petit
paring and even a little bit of a
hunting style knives here in Central
Texas
we also rehand Oh vintage knives but
mostly our bread and butter is making
extremely custom knives any type of
knife that you can dream up with any
type of materials we can do it
well let's talk a little bit about how
you make these knives and then we can
get to sharpening my terrible knives and
show people how to sharpen their knives
at home sounds great awesome so the
first thing we do is talk about the type
of knife they'd like and this one is the
most traditional this is a German shape
the knife typically does three things
there are knives that Pierce like a
dagger they're knives that slice like a
boning knife and they're knifes that
chop like an axe
the reason the chef's knife is so
popular because it does all three really
well this would be a French style knife
you can see the difference it's more
shaped like a teepee and this one's more
shaped like any glue so we decide what
type of knife they like we start taking
hand measurements everyone's hand is
different we also do clay molds of the
individuals hand if they want it
especially made for them then we talk
about weight then we start talking about
the handle material they can choose the
different types of steel we have
handmade pins that they can choose to go
with their wood and then we also can do
a liner which gives contrast and makes
them knife give it a little bit of a
bounce once somebody decides on their
knife we hand draw their knife on this
piece of steel we don't use patterns no
knife is the ever the same so when we
have scraps left over from knives we
make tiny little choppers or we make
deer Skinner's or we make pretty little
box openers so it'd be a really
dangerous stocking stuffer like put it
in there blade up and like some kid
reaches their hand in they would hate
singing it for everybody
so once we have the knife nice shape we
actually won't put it on the grinder
then once we've got the shape and we've
got the nice bevel then we actually will
put it in the kiln and then we'll start
to cook it they are flattened we put
them on the testing machine to make sure
they're at the optimal hardness and then
they go to move to the handle face so I
let people choose which would they like
and we usually keep about 50 different
types of woods and materials but this is
kind of a prettiest stuff that we've got
right now we've actually been making a
handle material and this is just a bunch
of cloth mixed with epoxy as well how
cool so you can do your grandmother's
quilt you can do your wife's sexy
panties that's right or I even saw
somebody actually cut up a game of
Thrones book and made a knife with
actual paper from The Game of Thrones
book which I thought okay somebody's
gonna next make a fifty Shades of Grey
knife oh my god dildo on the other hand
so you can place we put anything in a
knife hand lap you'll type it on there
drill the holes then you'll come back
put the other one on there drill through
this end then put the pins in then glue
it then let it sit overnight then you
can actually start to work it then
eventually as you grind the handle to
the the form that you want will come out
looking like this nice and shiny
I think people typically will use maybe
three knives a lot of people buy the
blocks that have 15 knives we don't
really believe in that we use three
knives in our home we use a large chef's
knife something like this then we use a
paring knife and then what just is more
of a utility but slash paring knife and
sometimes a santoku shape if we want to
do a lot of chopping we're making us do
or something like that and we need to
really chop quickly so let's talk about
how to care for a knife at home I
brought some of my embarrassingly dull
knives well let's look at the sharpening
okay we use a series of wet stones I
think the safest way for a beginner is
simply to push the knife away for me we
use about a 15 degree which is about the
size of a matchbook and just go along
the edge and the way I do it is I do
five
five well 5 5 4 4 3 3 2 2 1 1 just to
keep it even to keep it even you need to
do the exact amount on it on each side
after you have it nice and sharp you can
actually use a home which is a as a
steal and that you can simply keep your
edge honed with a steel and yeah and
really practising this you'll be able to
sharpen your knives in about 5 minutes
if you just do it a couple of times
the real test is to hang it so it's free
if I can cut through that and I've got
something so stand somewhere else
holy and then you really want to
try all right
haven't done this in a long time but
every good I know right
well you made a big no-no right
two swings not so bad oh they're
whacking like would do it in one swing
what's the worst thing you can do to a
knife at home like glass cutting boards
and glass cutting boards are terrible
opening up Amazon boxes using it as a
screwdriver Oh God
getting your ice maker unfrozen you know
using it as an ice pick using it as it's
not intended yeah also throwing it in a
drawer with a bunch of other knives
leaving it in a sink full of water
putting in the dishwasher even a
middle-grade knife shouldn't be put in
the dishwasher yeah
and of course once a year if you bring
your knife to a professional knife
sharpener there's people at the flea
market who do it there's people at
farmers markets
yeah all be at the farmers market in
Sunset Valley here starting at the end
of April and will be selling knives and
sharpening knives
we've been started making these cool
little Oh made of mahagony nice I love
that I'll give you one as a parting gift
and you tell me how it works thank you
okay well thank you so much Travis that
was very fun and educational and got my
knife sharpened and my handmade spatula
well great to have you guys here thank
you so much and I will put a link below
to why Kenai amps if anyone's interested
in getting a custom knife or to have
their knife sharpened or have their
knives repaired restore a family
heirloom whatever it might be anything
knives cool all right
well thanks for watching everybody and
next time by what I've always dreamed
about when I die being cremated how do i
ashes mixed into clay and turned into a
bowl and that bowl is cursed and whoever
breaks it will be cursed but I could put
it into a knife handle and then it's not
breakable and then I don't have to have
a curse involved we could be a curse
knife that's true it could be a
murderous weapon oh my god mind of its
own right anyone who uses it ends up
getting killed with that knife Oh
accidentally like chop chop
yeah something like that