and welcome back to Moore Approved on James and today we're going to be taking
a look at a whetstone sharpening system
alright so the guys at Shine & Sharp they reached out to me and sent me this
premium double sided whetstone sharpening system for the price of free
so this is my first sponsored video please don't click away right now I love
you so I did a little bit of research on this system and it's going on Amazon
right now for like $29.99 which I thought was actually a pretty good price
especially for a 3000 grit 8000 grit system it also comes with a couple of
goodies on the inside of the box which means that not only do you get the
sharpening stones themselves but you also get some cut clubs which I thought
was very generous of them so these are not double-sided cut gloves only one
side is actually cut resistant the other side is for breathability on your hands
so your hands don't get all sweaty and gross and nasty and whatnot so you have
one for the left hand one for the right hand for any of you who are southpaw
that means hey greatness because a lot of companies will only send right gloves
get rid of that what else do you get in the box do you ask bubble wrap
of course because you can't have too much bubble wrap you also get a
sharpening guide which I will probably never use but for those of you who are
new to sharpening knives on a stone I would highly suggest that you use this
and they a function of this particular item is actually pretty easy you just do
one of those numbers and then it goes across the stone and keeps your edge the
same no matter what you're doing which is important get that out of the way
there's also a a free gift so you can use this and get another free gift so if
you like free gifts hey we actually have some silicone placemats which makes it
sit inside this wonderful bamboo holder thing nicely without it moving around
it's nice and secure won't go around that actually has a non-slip surface on
the bottom to keep this from moving all over the place as you're sharpening your
stones but the most important thing of your whetstone system is you actually
have to soak this in like a lukewarm water for like 5 to 10 minutes
or until the bubbles stop rising so before we move on any further we are
actually going to take and submerge this in a little bit of water until the
bubble stop coming up and then we'll start testing it out so what I have over
here is just a little to go Chinese container which are reusable so don't
throw these away and we're just gonna drop this bad boy in there and I'm
probably enough to flip it cuz there's not quite enough water but we'll make do
so I'll see you in a couple of minutes
alright so the bubbles are pretty much abated which means this is ready to roll
it grab a paper towel some of that residual off but we're gonna start off
with a 3000 grit side now we're gonna move to the 8,000 grit side that just
sort of sits in there nicely and securely and firmly so if you were gonna
use this knife guide you just sort of slide this right in there careful you
don't cut yourself maybe use one of the cut cuts so you don't lose a finger
while you're doing that but the principle of this would be this
establishes the angle that you should be using and you make a nice even draw and
when you get to this one edge when you get to the tip now I sharpen from the
inside edge to the tip of the blade every time I know some people do that in
Reverse whatever works for you whatever floats your boat that's what you should
do this is how I like to sharpen a knife so get over it
so you would use this and you'd make the same amount of pass on this side and on
this side so you're gonna be coming back towards you you may want to move the
stone to a position that you're more comfortable with on your reverse path
you're gonna want to make an even amount of strokes going in this direction and
in this direction the key to having a nice sharp blade to make sure that your
knife tracks straight as you're cutting through something is to make sure that
bevel is the same angle on either side so I'm just gonna go ahead and do about
ten passes on each side to get it to the ballpark but before we actually do that
I'm gonna show you the sharpness of the blade as it sits currently what better
way then like a TV infomercial look at how well it cuts it's not cutting that
well it's not really making a lot of progress in this paper if I hold it like
this I could probably get it to go so you can see it's it's fairly dull
now for the nakiri knife which I will actually be sharpening as well it needs
help too so I've refrained from sharpening these knives because I knew
that that's gonna have to do a video with this so you should have a nice
before and after sort of effect so let's get started with the all-purpose chef's
knife you just want to come in start at the blade make sure you have
your angle set to what you want you can also do some research online for
particular knives different types knives and for what their purpose is most
importantly you'll have a different beveled edge for it however I like to do
mine by sight based on what I'm using for something like an all-purpose chef's
knife you're gonna want a wider bevel so that it doesn't just bend over that
little fine edge on every time that you hit something hard
therefore the chef's knife I like more of a broad bevel on it just so that it
holds up a little bit this is a multi-purpose knife I will be cutting
through harder items with this as well as more delicate items and I want it to
be well rounded so it doesn't dull out too quickly so I'm just gonna go ahead
and get started alright so I have 10 passes on that direction and I'm just
gonna bring it back the opposite direction careful you don't cut your
hands so probably keep those out of the way but I'm used to this so it'll be
fine
it's like 10 passes in both directions now I'm gonna go ahead and just wipe off
that metal build up those metal shavings and now we're just gonna take it over
for comparison that was a very very very quick sharpen so that's really not
enough time you probably want to have like fifty to a hundred passes per each
side to really get that thing super super sharp but for time sakes you can
see it's actually going through the paper now so it's done a good job just
with ten passes on either side now I'm going to take and flip it over to the
8,000 grit side apply silicon backer before putting it into your bamboo
holder all right that out of the way now I'm going to do
another 10 passes on each side
now we're just gonna go ahead wipe down that plate and see if I got my angles
right if I didn't I'm not going through this paper if I got my angles right it
should work pretty well now that's from the entire section of the blade so I
started at the base and I went to the tip let's go ahead and select this area
right here so start at the base all the way up to the tip goes through it pretty
easily let's switch over to this nakiri knife I'm actually gonna put a little
bit more water on this stone let it soak for a little bit more so we can get some
of this metal shaving out of the way so we're just gonna go ahead drop it in
there I try to keep that stone clean because your metal shavings won't get
into the pores of the stone and then that's going to reduce the effectiveness
of what you're trying to accomplish now we're going to switch knives and go over
to the nakiri knife and you want to use as much of the surface of the stone as
you possibly can so if you're already starting right here after a while you're
gonna have a divot in your stone so try to get to the very edge to the very edge
when you pull off now we're gonna go the other side
and it's force of habit me holding the other side of the stone the non-slip
based on this is actually pretty secure so you could put quite a bit of force on
that and it shouldn't move by the way you shouldn't catch yourself but I have
my first 10 strokes on either side done however this has VG steel Japanese VG
steel on it so it's very very very hard so it takes longer to sharpen and longer
to home so we're gonna see if there's any noticeable difference we'll get a
new piece of paper when we first tried it out so we're gonna go ahead and it's
already made a difference and that's only with ten passes on either side so
let's go ahead and switch back over to the honing side which is the 8,000 grit
try to keep my hand out of the way for you all right so we have our passes done
and again if I mess this up it's not gonna want to go through this paper
let's take a look and by not stabilizing it with the other hand like I do this
direction cuz I just don't want to be in the way by not putting my hand on this
to stabilize it I have more of a chance of messing up that other edge however I
feel pretty confident that I had the angle correct so let's give it a try
alright back over to test paper that's bolting on now but it seems to be
working pretty good nice clean cuts and did its job I could do the cliche I'm
gonna shave my arm now but that would be disgusting cuz I have very hairy arms
you'd be like yeah I'm not watching this anymore
so overall review of this item if I had to purchase it I would be quite happy
with this product I was actually looking for a new sharpening stone a while back
and the ones that are interested in that had three thousand eight thousand on up
we're quite pricey and expensive so I think overall great value
great bang for your buck for $30 you can't go wrong it's nice that it does
have this nice tight fit on it and I like it give how it gives you two
sections of silicone to keep you from accidentally hitting on things and
chipping off the edges of the stone so that's why you actually have two of
those so when you're in storage if you had this I don't know in your garage or
in a cupboard with a whole bunch of plates and whatnot and somebody has
started cracking the sides with the plates you're not gonna get divots or
chips missing out of the corners if your stone or off the edges of your stone so
all in all shiny and sharp I think there's a great product worked very very
well thank you so much for sending it to me anybody is interested in picking up a
nice whetstone system I would highly recommend this one and the price is
right $30.00 I'll leave a link below to Amazon for this particular item feel
free to do something on Amazon and look at them read reviews etc and so forth if
you already own one of these bad boys let other people know what you think
about it leave it down in the comments below
thanks so much for watching everyone i'm james til next time see you then