@@NeevesKnives would you recomment DMT dia sharp diamond stone? They're in the same price range as the ultra sharps on bladeHQ (Amazon doesn't ship the Ultra Sharps to france unfortunately)
Jared has the absolute best videos and tutorials online for sharpening hands down, no competition...another extremely talented sharpener online is rough rooster sharpening. Hes the only person ive found personally whos just as good, if not actually even more skilled at sharpening knives...jared is a fantastic teacher and very skilled as this video clearly illustrates
Yes! This video was amazing! The "rise your elbow" technique made a night and day difference for me. I was getting ready to sharpen my urban bowie and pretty sure i was gonna eff it up, especially the tip. On the contrary, after raising my elbow the scratch patterns got super even and the new edge is VERY symmetrical. Got a long way to go before i can put a polish on my blades but I'm so much happier with my results. This video is a MUST if you're new to sharpening. Thanks man, great video 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I have a translucent and black Arkansas and have had them for years and love them. But I keep a fine grit hard ruby at work that was used to sharpen carbide inserts and that thing works great for getting a hair cutting every day use edge on a knife.
You should get into the polishing. My d2 rat hates it but my eafengrow doesnt mind it. Also how do you ensure a good strop on the tip. I've been stropping from the choil to the tip. Like spreading butter on toast or whatever.
مرحبا كيف الحال أنا من متابعيك ومعجبيك أنا تعلمت منك الكثير في مجال السكاكين شكرا لك أنا من بلاد عربيه تحديدا العراق تحيه جميلة وحلوه إلى حضرتك شكرا 🌹💐
I love it when you come back to these tutorials. The information is the same, but you make a completely different edited video so it's still fun to watch again and again and (hopefully) hearing the same info again keeps it locked in the memory. I think the sun will have swallowed up the Earth in the amount of time I'd need to remember everything though 😂
Thanks for these videos Jerad. I’m a chef and I’ve made it a habit to bring my knife kit home from work on my 2 days off cause I love watching your videos, relaxing and keeping my knives sharp and perfecting my skills. I watched this video this morning and sharpened up my old Benchmade mini Emissary and got a nasty sharp edge on it. I’ve gotten so good at sharpening that I’m thinking about starting a small sharpening business on the side. Thank you for being so amazing and being a role model for all the ladies and gentlemen in the knife community. Keep it up man👍
I started trying to freehand sharpen about 2 months ago and haven’t been able to consistently get a good edge. After watching this I was able to get my mini sheepdog to shave and cut paper towels with a 320 grit shapton. Thanks for the knowledge man.
Use either a thin chef knife or a thin edge from like civivi, elementum, or and of them they are usually thin bte which makes for ease of Sharpening, also watch multiple videos that I filmed the past year or so because I explain in a better way with visuals
A 10X jeweler's loupe is EXCELLENT for looking at your scratch pattern and burr and seeing exactly what you're missing and if you have your angle correct.
I hope people can appreciate this video. It’s bad ass. I do. Holy moly. Your so cool. Thx. Jerad may seem rough around the edges. Pun intended, but he’s sharp.
Such a great sharpening vid especially for beginners and a few tricks that some older sharpeners can use. The sharpening stone types will be very helpful and focusing on getting a working edge first is a great first step. Getting a high mirror polish is what alot of sharpeners chase but it's not the right edge type for many steels where all steels will do great at a medium finish. Perfect one step at a time and practicing on good steel is the best choice. I'd suggest something in 14C28N for beginners it's a steel that is hard for manufacturers to screw up, because of how easy it's heat treated, and can be found for around $30 and up in Folders, fixed blades and kitchen knives. Thanks for the great vid Jerad and keep making sharp things fun and enjoyable
Great instructional info, my man! This should help people who are just starting out for sure! And if not, they can watch one of your many, many other sharpening videos!
A block of harder felt works fantasic for a fine wire burr. When you have the almost undetectable burrs and don't want to crush the edge or micro bevel it works great. Best think I ever learned.
Hell yeah I just ordered a Tsprof kadet with the Venev Beta Centauri stone kit. Also a kangaroo leather strop, some gunny diamond emulsion, Tsprof small universal table for sharpening other tools, the Tsprof convex mini adapter, and a digital angle gauge. All my knives have gone mostly dull from improper maintenance. Now ALL my knives will STAY stay sharp AF!! Thanks Neeves, I took all your advice when I bough my first system. And continue to follow along with all your sharpening content. Nice graphics too BTW! This guide is on point 💪🏻💪🏻 Edit: ALMOST got the tormek system. And I still may one day. But for now, I’ll be using the Tsprof.
Hey Landscaping Specialist fellow Kadet owner here and all I can say is I know that you must have dropped a pretty penny on all them sharpening supplies but it will always be worth it to have sharp and safe tools good luck to you and I hope that you love your Kadet as much as I do mine 👍
Hey Jarad! Awesome Video. This has really helped me hone my free sharpening. Probably 10 years ago I gave up on free hand and moved to guided systems. I’ve had a wicked edge, KME, Sypderco sharpmaker, and several more. I’ve not found one I’m happy with because they all take a good amount of setup time or are finicky. After using this tutorial and lots of practice I’m finally getting results I’m happy with. I love free hand it brings me back to being a kid and amazed by watching my Granddaddy sharpen one of his many Case mini Trappers. Thank you so much!
My edges are not to the point of clean cutting paper towel and I always tell my wife they wouldn't pass your sharpness test lol. This is a monster help to all of us trying to free hand, thank you from all of us!
Great video. One of the best sharpening videos I have seen. You did an awesome job explaining the different techniques of sharpening. I have been free hand sharpening for a few years now and I definitely learned some things I did not know.!!!
Very good class. Very user friendly. Very good editing.! Great work Kara. Jared's not bad either.! (just kidding). It's a privilege to be taught by Jared. Cheers from Australia.
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Even though I can get a good mirror polish on my blades this was great to watch. Always nice to see someone else do something and the technique they use, I took a few things away from this video to make myself better, thank you.
I'm SO grateful I'm not the only one that went and bought a microscope to see what's going on. I have to see what's going on for me to understand what's actually happening to the metal. I can always get the burr but getting rid of it is another story. I think I'm afraid of dulling the knife with stropping it to aggressively. When my stepfather was still here he used a big rod of tungsen to sharpen knives has anyone one heard of that? I do own it now but I'm struggling with the basics so I've never tried it. Great video I wanted to watch it yesterday but wanted to focus on it so I waited to a better time. Thank you
I elected to go with the Trend brand double-sided sharpening stones (a 180/600 grit and a 300/1000 grit) primarily because they are made with mono-crystalline diamonds electroplated to the machine-flat plate. These are very highly recommended, along with the use of Trend lapping fluid to "wash" away removed steel from knives. I also purchased the diamond plate holder recommended by Jared (aka, Neeves Knives) as this is VERY highly recommended for its flatness and easy of use. Can't wait to give them a try!!!
Hello Jerad. Pretty good sharpening tutorial. Congrats There are a few technical details you got wright most people don't. Maybe you know about them and didn't mention or maybe you got an excellent method through practical experience. Edge trailing is not that good at removing burr. A microburr you cannot feel will always remain unless you do some weird techniques like high angle passes or 90 degree passes. Diamond stones cut fast but tend to fracture carbides. Edge may be perfectly formed but ruptured carbides act as facture initiation points and reduce edge durability. Diamond on strops on the other hand don't fracture carbides and help to fully remove the microburr left while edge trailing. This choice dealt with both problems at the same time. Most people tend to use it with micron and sub micron paste on strops. That will leave the edge too polished and loose bite. 6 micron seems leave a very good finish for general purpose. There are a few points you got wrong tho. Natural stones usually have 7 Mohs. Transtaling that to HRC that would be around 70 HRC. It's hard enough to cut any steel. If the steel has hard carbides it will abrade them by rounding and result in an exposed carbide edge. An Arkansas stone probably will be slow cutting when dealing with high carbide content steels but will easily work as a finishing stone on a knife already apexed. Aluminum oxide is softer than vanadium carbides but, due to some weird physics I don't understand, it actually make clean cuts on these carbides. There are electron microscopy images on science of Sharp showing that. Source for carbide rupture by diamonds and exposed carbide by natural stone is also Science of Sharp. Highly recommend site. For some tasks an edge finer than what you did or with even more bite may perform better. I recommend to try finishing edge leading on coarse stone with very low pressure. It can be sharp enough to shave hair or cut paper towel on a 320 stone and it feels completely different from polished edge. This seems specially promising for rope cutting and barbecue.
Lovely bit of viewing felt like I was back in school! All I needed was a smack around the back of the head and some old fecker to say (if you don’t start focusing you will blah blah) lol or whatever they used to say,. Really enjoyed the viewing Jerad . Have a great day J&k stay safe and healthy both 🫵😘👍
You did a great job showing every aspect of an instructional video. Really enjoyed this, thank you. The resin diamond plate. What grit is it. After your 140 grit diamond what did you switch to. Sorry if i missed this. TIA
I've been enjoying your videos! I'll be happy, and I believe the other folks too if you show us how to clean the rough and smooth sides of a leather strop. Thanks.
A nice low maintenance free hand set is the FallKniven DC521, and a strop. About $100, and it'll take care of just about all straightedge blades. If you need something with a heavier grit for correcting really damaged edges, throw in an Extra course DMT. That'll cover everything not serrated or with a heavy recurve.
Hey brother I'm looking forward to this video. I just got my Civivi Altus with wooden scales yesterday. I ordered the TI pocket clip also. I love the look of the Ti clip but I'm afraid it is going to be rough on my pocket. It makes contact with the handle and it does not flex. It takes a good bit more effort to pull it out, we will see.
Id say just try to bend the clip back off the scale with your finger. Don’t wanna bend it too much or you’ll have to remove the clip to band it back. I have done this several time. Basically wanna take some of the spring out of the clip by bending it by hand
Thanks so much. Im 33 and this is the most instructional video ive seen in my life. And i was in the military to boot, so many "instructional" videos 😂 now i feel like an idiot that ive been using corundum instead of diamonds.
Great tutorial. I’m going to try again on my stone tonight. I’ve been getting progressively better results, but I’m still not happy with my finished edges. I won’t risk any of my good knives by sharpening them myself yet.
Glad I subscribed - and I found your video on using sandpaper from about 2 years ago - economical and (IMO) just as good .... as any stone. I use the automotive wet/dry type glued to a metal plate.
You should review the Sharpensbest or best sharpener or whatever its called. The red handle thing that the guy waves all over the blade and it “sharpens”.
