Knife porn thread

Rinse with water immediately after using. Dry from spine to edge on your selvedge jeans. The slight cuts you leave are part of the patina. It tells a story man. Yeah. This one time, in Epping....

Thanks for all your advice, I feel confident I'm going to be better at this

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https://blenheimforge.co.uk/editions/ylrhn0uqb9fjeu2vs5mi8ype233ifk

I don’t use my whetstone regularly enough to be any good at it. Thinking of getting a Lansky sharpening kit, but which one? Deluxe (five stones), standard (three stones) or diamond even?

Will be used on a stainless-clad nakiri & gyuto, Zwilling chef knife and a few other wee guys.

I have the 3 stone kit which works perfectly well for my knives. Owners of posh knives may disagree.

My aliexpress cloan is the 5 version and I mainly use the lowest (for projects for shaping), then the two highest.

I'd say get the 3 stone then buy some alix extras if you feel you need them.

Oooh. Aliexpress has opening a whole can of worms. Looks like I'll end up with some mad pro clamp-on sharpening station in the end.

fwiw I watched a bunch of videos about how to use a whetsone, the angles to use, technique etc but what I found works best is to place the knife blade forward pointing about 45 degrees, angle it down about 40 degrees and just keep that consistent then push the knife back and forward without much pressure. No screwing around with changing the angle for the tip, pressing on the drag but not the push etc. One hand on the handle, the other holding the blade with the thumb dragging on the stone to keep the angle.

I did an hour long one-on-one with the guy that does Kitchen Provisions and Blenheim Forge as a lovely gift from my wife, but I think it's really something I'd have to do more than once a year to have any touch for, and I'm also "on the tools".

Ah well fair enough then. I can't say I'm any good at it, just that it started to actually work once I stopped trying to be fancy with the technique. As a cheap solution there's angle blocks you can get too https://www.amazon.co.uk/Professional-Sharpening-Random-Sharpener-Whetstone/dp/B07D32C3RB/ref=asc_df_B07D32C3RB/

Actually might make my own version of this in oak and stainless steel. That way I'm not completely copping out.

Couple new edc's arrived today The boker atlas will be my new box opener at work (aka sellotape cutter).

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I went for the Deluxe but I don't actually know where it is...

@ChasnotRobert did I lend it to you?

Always this. Any other way you'll eventually fuck up and take a finger off.

Cleavers should be cheap as fuck carbon steel from wing yips.

Yep, I still have it!

Happy to send it somewhere.

Lol no worries dude I’d totally forgotten about it. I’m not in London atm but when I’ve moved back down I’ll drop you a note around collecting it? 😁

sure👍

I have been gifted this. Very nice.

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Oooooooh!

I haz the same, sure beats getting apple skin in your grill.

Are we playing knifey spooney?

I’d love to learn how to use the whetstone, but in the interim is there a decent kitchen gadget thingy one? Or are they all much and the same?

Lanksy

It really doesn't take much to get half decent with a whetstone! I'm not very practically minded at all and I can get my knives pretty sharp with one after watching a couple of YouTube videos.
I'm sure if I spent a bit more time learning and practicing I'd be able to do a better job but all 3 of my kitchen knives are sharp enough to cut tricky stuff like tomatoes really easily.