hey guys welcome back Ricky here okay so
today I am going to try to sharpen a
knife a knife that's fairly dull as you
guys can see here it's not going to cut
me at all and so the question was for my
subscriber is there one stone that you
can buy that can sharpen and polish and
well the question yes the answer is yes
you can do that but you have to choose
between having a stone that can cut well
and not give you a high polish finish
and so though I don't think of okay I
can't think of any stones that can
actually sharpen your knife and give you
a high polish okay so if that's what
you're looking for
you're better off getting a combo stone
where you can get 1,000 great on one
side and the 6000 great on the other but
if you are willing to forego a stone
that has a combo stone and go for one
stone the trocero 3000 is a really good
stone for that because it cuts well make
it bring a pretty dull knife you know
adult edge back to life such as this one
here and it will give you a Kasumi so a
non glossy finish okay so I'll go
through the entire shopping process and
stropping process on this one stone and
we'll see how you know how you like it
and see how sharp the stone the knife is
afterwards and I'll walk you guys
through my sharpening process and the
polishing process okay so this is a
smashing go so you don't need to apply
any water or any soaking soaking through
soaking at all I should say apply while
you need water but no spree soaking
required okay
and so the stone has been cleaned from a
previous session and again the knife is
fairly dull as you guys can see here it
won't cut me at all and so this is not
going to be necessary tutorial though I
will talk you guys through what's
happening but I won't walk you through
everything as if I'm going through a
tutorial okay
now that looks like the Sun is loading
up but it's not that's just metal coming
off of the stone I'm coming off of the
knife okay so don't worry when you see
metal coming off so quickly
okay it's one pass
as two passes
so sorry about that I was actually
talking I was lifting my ham the same
time so notice what's happening we're
now is I'm actually allowing the knife
the curvature of the knife to control
the sharpening because this knife here
has a you know a pretty rounded belly so
you don't want to you don't want to do a
static sharpen straight you want to
allow the edge to you know to be rounded
keep that maintain that circum that that
radius there so I am allowing my wrist
to flex a little bit or to relax
and to go with the curvature of the
belly for the top part of the knife and
then that's come down I can start my
straightening you know more or less a
more straight a static motion okay so
now you don't see me trying to you know
you don't see me doing this with my
wrist anymore so it's more relaxed right
now and just very it's going with what
the blade tells me I should do
okay so those leave those three passes
and I can probably move on at this point
so it's got a very very fine burr I can
probably sit one more because this was
fairly dull when I started yeah but I'll
just I'll just do it just to be safe
so I like to move my knife around and
get the edges if I can all right we turn
this thing around and do the left side
okay stones not loading up at all as you
guys can see you know it's taking off
very fine material from the knife but
it's not loading up it's one of the
beauties of the trocero stones they're
just very very very well designed and
you have lots of sharpening compound and
lots of abrasive but very little bonding
agents on the stone
okay so that was two passes I believe
and this feels quite good so I'm just go
a little quick pass here
okay all right so that is the sharpening
portion of of the session so now we're
going to go through some stropping
okay and so basically what you do is
because we just sharpened on this side
the bird is now folding over here so you
want to now if you want enough
straighten the brow okay so the way I do
it is I just do these broad drops here
okay I'll do about 12 maybe 15 because
this is a polishing stone okay so I
think that was 15 and so now you can
come this way
if this angle is too much for a lot of
folks it is especially if you're
starting off okay coming this way for me
it's me it feels very normal to me but a
lot of folks can get there when they're
starting off so you want to come from
here you want come from the backside or
the bottom of the knife and that works
just as nicely as well it's much much
easier on your wrist and it's easier to
hold this angle for a lot of people who
are starting out make sure you want to
get the entire length of the knife or
other cutting edge okay so now you
reduce that number by two or so that's
pretty good number
okay all right now go out to 11 I have
my dog here with me and there's squirrel
taunting it from outside so you might
hear a growl once in a while okay so now
we're out to 9
so now we'll go this way
alright so now go to seven all right so
seven five five on this side go to three
go to - okay I'll do - a couple times
okay so now go to one okay again I like
to come from this way so that go from
tip top tip to bottom tip but nothing
wrong with going from bottom tip the top
tip okay all right so you do this a few
times maybe four or five times each okay
let's go one more okay so now hopefully
I have a fairly sharp edge I think I do
what I'll do now is yeah so there's
there's you candy bar it if you wanted
to run it through a piece of what you
can nothing wrong with that sometimes
that can sometimes that usually helps
okay but if you're going from a stone
that's 3000 and you're going to polish
and stop it
that may not be necessary especially
don't if you don't allow the knife to
develop a really big bird if you do
that's probably good to remove it on a
piece of wood but you know I was very
light on my dropping and sharpening and
so the borough that developed was very
very fine and by stopping the way you
know by the final stopping that I was
doing that removed pretty much most of
the big bird and so I'm not worried too
much about having to pull the knife on a
piece of wood though if you guys prefer
that nothing wrong with that okay so
let's try the knife off and then let's
do a real quick cut test
sorry alright so here we go okay so this
is my infamous paper that I have laying
around the house and you guys can see
here it's sharp fairly sharp is a bunch
of fresh cuts so feathering push cuts
okay so these some guy about no no ten
cuts in here it's fairly good yeah this
is not them the most best way to test
the knife but it's just it's quick
enough for me in the studio and then
this is a embarrassing I don't have a
good newspaper laying around
okay so knife is fairly sharp okay and
this is just a really quick I mean this
is just a really quick session here I'm
not trying to break in your records here
or trying to you know cut sushi I just
wanted to make sure to show you that you
can sharpen a knife on one stone and
polish okay so this is a really good
stone for that again there are other
stones out there that can achieve this
result as well I just so happens that
this is a stone that I really enjoy and
I've always gotten really good results
from the tercera 3000 so that is it
hopefully there is um hopefully you
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