okay we're gonna sharpen the knife on
whetstone whetstone is soaked in water
for five to ten minutes before you use
it and this acts as the lubricant so you
need to find a 20 to mean 22 degree
angle so what you have there is 90 Wade
out there it's 45 and what you have
there is it was 22 so the secret is the
22 degree angle starting at the point of
the knife walking your way along the
length of the noise walking your way
along the length of the stone so you can
do it straight you can do it like this
but personally I prefer to do it the way
I'm doing it
I find it to get a better one if you're
staying in the middle of the order of
the whetstone you wear it down in the
middle it will be useless this way
you're using the whole length of the
stone so what you're doing here is
basically shaving a very small amount of
metal off the edge of the noise so
you'll do this until you feel you've got
the right amount off and then you'll
turn it over until the other side you
will get a little bit of black that's
small pieces of metal coming from the
noise and it's during the course of the
Sherriff link you need to add some more
water so you're free to do so there's
plenty of it so 22 degree angle you
don't have to go really really fast
effect when you're starting is best to
go slow because if that knowing slips
off your fingers are pretty close to it
you don't want to lose your fingers
either so you walk away
so you're grinding a very fine edge onto
your knife here
and then you'll feel it with your
fingers and you'll feel there's a slight
rough edge that's little bits of metal
still hanging on the end so what you do
is you flip it over to the fine side and
then just basically polish it and that
puts the really refine edge of it
remember up the 22 degree angle is very
important anything bigger either you're
just going to get a beveled edge and it
doesn't work check your edge just barely
touch it with your finger if it's not
quite smooth enough used to fine edge of
stone again feels good
take off here I need to breathe it out
there and then you lose the steel so
again which are 22-degree angle 22
degree angle on the steer we start at
the top
walk down go both sides now you'll see
people doing this extremely fast that's
fine if you know what you're doing over
the years you'll end up with lots of
these little white scars in your hand
that's from doing too quick and not
paying any attention so it's important
that you do it carefully and the guard
here is to stop your film connecting
with no you it doesn't have to be fast
it just has to be actors and all you're
doing here is you're just resetting the
edge underneath so now you've got your
knife ready to go as I say you can use
the growth as you're doing some serious
boning
or you can use the fabric cloth if it's
just as a light work
