Knife Sharpening (Lansky Deluxe 5-Stone Sharpening System) & my whetstone in 1000 / 6000 grit
Channel: Aaron Schwarz
Date: 2022-06-24

I talk about how sharpening blades can take a lifetime of practice. No one starts out a blade honing master, that skill takes decades develop. 

Learn more at first by searching YouTube for "how to sharpen a knife on a whetstone" on "how to sharpen knives" "Best knife sharpener" "Project Farm Knife Sharpener Review" "How to use a whetstone to sharpening a knife" & other queries to find relevant edifying educations information that can help you get started like me, as an amateur blade sharpener. 

This an unboxing & brief demo of me sharpening my Chinese SOG EDC knife with the medium & fine stones in the Lansky system // not a tutorial, not a guide, not tips or tricks or anything else. I do show the basic setup & how to start (not detailed) a sparse overview. I produced this as a way of reminding my future self of this journey & to share part of my life & interests. Happy knife sharpening friends! 

Read the instructions that come with your sharpening system. I read the instructions that came with my Lansky Delux 5-stone Sharpening System & its universal holder in this video. You also get to see my simple setup & some action! 

Thanks for watching!

Some of my favorite YouTube videos are about blacksmiths that make swords & blades from other steel objects, Japanese master blade makers & making blades in America or Germany & related content about forges, blacksmithing, tooling, low volume custom manufacturing, modifying, upgrading, fixing, repairing, restoring ; I think seeing people make a positive difference by improving anything fun & uplifting! 

If you have any suggestions or comments, please feel free to leave them below. Thanks again for taking time to watch my YouTube videos. I make them as a hobby & do not make any money doing it. I do not have enough watch hours or other metric benchmark achievements to monetize my content in any way yet. For now, its just me & my smartphone, sometimes my lovely wife Meg helps. I record, produce, edit, publish & share content DIY style using my 2020 iPhone SE via the last Intel iMac using free included & relatively powerful iMovie editing software- special thanks to Apple for that combo! Thank you INTEL & TSMC & ASML for all that you contribute to make this stuff happen. Special thanks to Foxconn & Flextronics who make Apple's hardware. Special thanks to the State of California for supporting Apple. Special thanks to Alphabet inc. & Google & YouTube for this platform! Praise be to God for my life & all the blessings. I am so glad I do not live in the Ukraine & have all of those people in my prayers. Shame on Russia & shame on Vladimir Putin- thats not just war crimes, thats evil! I am thankful to God & appreciate my life & existence & other people & animals & think technology is really cool because of how it allows people to modify their minds, other people & environments & landscapes in the world, on Earth. 

Blades are an ancient technology that started with people breaking slate & similar rocks against other rocks that fragment off sharp edges pieces that were then used as the first blades to cut up animals hunted & killed for food by ancient peoples. Copper & bronze & then iron & steel ages helped to bring in blades, which have uses as diverse as shaving & manufacturing & even for self protection & in combat or war. I use my EDC knife as an improvised tool all the time & you can even see me doing so in this video, to unscrew a screw in the Lansky sharpening system bracket.