How to Sharpen a Knife with a Japanese Master Sharpener

Protip - if you ever happen to get lost in the wilderness, just sit down and start sharpening your pocket knife. It is guaranteed that within 10 minutes someone will come by and tell you that you are doing it wrong.

Never a dull moment with this guy.

“I’m going to sleep by 11 tonight!” 3:17 AM watching dudes sharpen knives

He makes it looks so easy and smooth. It took me a month just to not make it even duller than before.

Just in time. My stone arrived today. So tonight i am either gonna have a sharp knife, or 9 fingers. 2 years edit. I've leaned how to sharpen my own knife. Have all 10 fingers and i got 600-1000 and 3000-8000 stones.

This is the best and most informative way to teach a novice how to properly use a whetstone. Great job munchies!

I've watched and listened to hundreds of people explain to me how to sharpen knives - this was one of the clearest and easiest to follow. Thank you.

I followed this with a brand new whetstone from Amazon. My cheap knives now slide through everything I need like a hot knife through butter. This entire tutorial was SPOT ON, thank you Vincent!

3 AM watching a guy sharpening a knife, but i'm a butcher, so technically i'm working

I was waiting for that cow to pop up and pour water on the stones but alas wrong channel.

This is the video that got me truly comfortable with sharpening my knives. Thanks to this video, I practiced enough that I finally feel comfortable upgrading my whetstone earlier this week. My OG beater/practice knife now has the sharpest edge it's ever had in it's entire existence. I can't thank y'all enough.

Now this is what YouTube was originally made for thanks

Received a full whetstone set this year from the family. They hated my odd collection, but it worked well. I am impressed with the ease of making something dull new again so on that note I have to watch the best and glean knowledge and make my own style. Thank you for the wisdom.

Vicent had a whole series of knife sharpening on the Korin’s YouTube channel, not sure if it’s still there but it’s very thorough and some great material worth checking out.

Vincent does excellent work. His videos are the best sharpening tutorials I’ve seen anywhere. The bad technique of most youtube sharpening videos removes way too much knife metal as well as causing uneven wear on knife and premature dishing in the stone. A problem considering how expensive everything has become.

Another point I think deserves mentioning is to maintain your whetstones as much as possible; you also want to make sure you aren't just using one section of the stone to sharpen with. Notice how Mr. Lau is using the entire length of the stone! I personally will take my whetstone dry and draw a grid on the top with a lead pencil and use the zeroing stone or flattening stone and just run down the length with about 2-3 lbs of pressure. If you see spots that are still marked after a few passes this shows you that the stone isn't entirely flat.

It's nice to see Korin still doing well. I bought an ittosai damascus chef's knife and a 1000/6000 stone from them almost 10 years ago, and they've given me years of joy. There's nothing like having a really sharp knife, and this is a really good instructional video.

"I need my mental health break..." 😂 Don't we all...

I watched a lot of videos describing the process but nobody in any video I watched said when I should left the pressure and keep the pressure of my finger except you and that is what it makes my knife sharp again. Thanks for the video

You, my friend just helped me sharpen all my kitchen knives! I'm always reluctant to do it myself because it's so easy to royally screw up a knife edge.