Don't know if anyone has said this but you must sharpen until you see a burr on the opposite side. This concept took a long time to sink in for me but I finally have learned that's what apexing means. Then honing is removing the Burr. Once you master this, you've mastered sharpening knives. Dollar tree stone may be a honing stone more then a apexing stone, so if you weren't getting a burr then definitely not
Thanks for watching. I don’t think anyone has brought this up, so thanks. I haven’t tried used this stone in awhile, but definitely keep this in mind when I break it back. Been using the Lansky Turn Box, it’s simple and does a pretty good job. I’m not terrible on my knives so they usually just need touching up. Thank again!
@@quickgearvids I hear you man. I actually bought a work sharp and couldn't even get knives razor sharp on that until I understood the Burr concept. I have to sharpen about 2 dozen knives at work every night for a food processing facility and one way that I found gets me through them really quick is that I use a 18" x 1/2" band file sander to quickly Apex the knives that need apexed and then I use a honing rod to quickly remove the Burr. It doesn't get them hair splitting sharp but it gets them sharp enough to cut paper with ease but it took me a long time to get to that point. I didn't really know what ppl were talking about on RU-vid when they said you got to get a burr. I could easily get the Burr but what I didn't understand was that I had to hone it to remove the Burr and actually make it sharp. I've played with sharpening stones but don't have the patience for that either. If you got just one way that works best for you, then stick with that one way and that's all that matters. I really enjoyed your video though because I was curious what could be done with a dollar knife. I also found this one where this Chinese guy sharpens a dollar knife on stones for hours and makes it ridiculously sharp enough to cut a tissue with just blowing in it ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0P6klz6BTek.html
@@drewrinker2071 Wow, thanks for sharing the video that’s super impressive. I wonder if it was able to keep the edge very long, but either way that’s awesome! I’m still very much a novice at sharping. Just need the time to practice more, lol. I probably need to buy a strop as well. Most of my hard use task I try to stick with one of the Gerber prybrid tools so the blades are replaceable and helps keep the edge on my hood knives.
I find these great for cheap kitchen knives. The aim isn't to cut paper (how did this become the standard?!?!). Just get through tomato skin easily. Oh god... don't use oil on these. They're a classic water stone. Oil will end up with the damn thing being clogged and unable to sharpen anymore
Nevyn Hira thanks for watching, I was just experimenting and for a dollar wasn’t worried about ruining it. Needless to say oil is NOT something you should put on these. As for the cutting paper, for me it’s just easier to show progress on video. Thanks again for watching and commenting, I really appreciate it!
A Dollar Store whetstone can be just as good as a $50 whetstone if you learn how to get the most out of them. The most important thing that you must do is develop is a technique that works well for the particular stone that you are using. Not all Dollar Store whetstones are the same, but which ever one you get, learn what is best for that whetstone. Some don't even have a side with a different grit, so you will have to consider this. I'd say practice on inexpensive knives first and when you feel your skills are where they need to be, sharpen your more expensive knives.
For a stone like this: I use water personally, use lighter pressure when it gets close to finished, and remember that the first few times will be a little extra coarse as you break in the stone. Don't store them immersed in water or they break down. You will be able to shave hair with these alone (my test), especially if you ease up to an absolutely feather touch when you get close to finished. But you could combine this stone with a strop and green compound for a quick and cheap bench setup that yields razor sharpness for literally $3-$5. A Norton india stone is a worthy upgrade with a finer grit for $20. All the $5-$15 aluminum oxide stones at the local hardware store are pretty much the same as this dollar tree example.
It works well on crappy knives. I don’t care about my newer rapala filets. I sharpen them every 10 fish or so. Those new rapala filets are dookie. I get a new dollar tree stone before each trip and just dispose of it.
Chris Jericho thanks for watching, I’m still learning myself. Soak it in water for 10 minutes or so and then just keep it wet as you sharpen. Good luck!
I picked one of these up back when they had them. I mess around with it here and there. I don’t use any water and I’ve been practicing for awhile now but I can take a completely dull knife and make it cut paper pretty good.
I just tried this stone out. Im very proficient at sharpening and based on these comments I used water. The stone disintegrated and become incredibly coarse and actually made my knife duller than when I started. I took out my good quality stones and strop and repeated the process and guess what? Razor edge. Out of my own experience, I will not be buying this POS stone again.
Worked for me I'm sorry yours didn't go good for you but whatever you do man try not to let the social idea that if something cost more money that means it's far better because that's definitely not always true LOL not one tiny bit sometimes yeah but a lot of times all you're doing is buying a name that's all
I purchased these in conjunction with the dollar tree hunting knives which may as well be a folding butter knife. and after a little bit of practice I managed to give the dollar knife a functional cutting edge. so I'd say these stones aren't completely useless and I doubt my method is perfect but I often use it to breath a little more life into my knife
Works for me I have some little sharpeners that you just put on the blade and run over it you know one is a sharp N easy that works okay too the bottom of a ceramic coffee cup works good as well
Maybe he edited the part out where he worked down to alternating between one pass per side, but if he didn't he's trying to cut with a large burr on the knife. It's been a year so likely he's learned this by now, but anyone watching might want to know I guess why it didn't work out for him. He looks like he's holding his angle, all he was missing was literally three or four sentences worth of the theory of sharpening. Also that's probably why the compound on the strop got scraped off. If he'd gotten down to one pass per side the burr probably would have been small enough for the strop to remove it
Thanks for watching, to be honest it’s been so long I don’t remember what I did, lol. I obtained a wicked edge and been working with it, but I’m pretty terrible at sharpening, lol. Thanks again!
keep practicing and you will learn the muscle memory required. it's a skill that need some time to master and some blades to ruin, so buy a cheap knife to play. when you got the technique, you can go crazy with high-end stones. ps be careful with the coarse side of that stone, usually it can remove a lot of material very fast
Actually he is doing it right whetstones have been in use for thousands of years and they were used to sharpen Katanas they used this method there are many methods and this one is proper also it says on the packaging to go back and forth
Thanks for watching, it’s still functioning, I don’t use it a lot, I mostly use the LANSKY Turn Box. I did buy another one as a back up so I know Dollar Tree still carries them. Hard to beat for $1 though. Thanks again!
@@quickgearvids this guy for example ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-38KeFS7g6P0.html does it better and hence got better result. One more suggestion about the editing of the video, the sudden burst of heavy metal music sounds really loud as compared to your voice so the contrast is not pleasant to the ear.
Stop acting like America and Europe are isolated from the problem you degenerate fuck. We are part of the problem and we should be part of the solution. How pathetic is your worldview that every thing has to be about liberals and conservatives.
