Sharpening #1 (freehand)

Welcome to my freehand sharpening series, please pour yourself a nice cold beverage and see how I put a hair whittling edge on my knives without and fancy guided systems, and without fancy high dollar stones.

You can get this same set up for around $100-$135 depending on sales and where you buy from.

Thanks again, please remember to rate comment and subscribe! I'm trying to bring fresh videos to the knife community by doing videos that have not been done before. Take apart reviews, sharpening on the cheap, and crazy bottle cuts. Going for 18 with a Spyderco Military!!!

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[TaonariX]

Excellent video Solo. This video and jdavis882 have inspired me to make the transition over to freehand sharpening. I ordered the stones you used in the video and they should arrive this week. I plan to start practicing with some cheaper knives before I move on to the more expensive ones. Great video and thanks for your contributions to the knife community.

[jdavis882]

Thanks for these videos Randy. This is one of the videos that really helped me to learn free hand sharpening. :)

[DefMunky75]

@Suvexify Personally I've never had an issue with either. I guess the main thing would be more surface area on the continuous surface stone which would give a faster cut and less buildup while sharpening on the interrupted surface stones. I can't really tell a difference either way. lol The only negative I can think of with the interrupted surface stones is if you aren't careful you could catch the edge of one of the holes with your blade edge, but I've never had any problems with it.

[ApacheSunKings]

I've seen a lot of sharpening videos and this is so far not only my favorite but also the best, the technique is very well explained and that makes it very easy to follow the steps, only one question remains, how do you clean your stones? Thank you so much..

[torquefactory]

Great series ! I am gonna to check all your vids ! Mike

[5x56mm]

You have some serious freehand skills. Good work on this video series.

[fredde90210]

You make it look easy but I tell you it´s not...trust me I tried a 100 times hehehe