Sharpening a Hiromoto Kitchen Knife With 3 Water Stones

This is a demonstration of how to sharpen a kitchen knife using 3 different water stones. The kitchen knife used was a Hiromoto and the stones were a 1000 grit, 6,000 grit and a natural Japanese water stone.

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Education

Tags:

• kitchen knife sharpening
• knife sharpening
• japanese water stones
• sink bridge
• dmt plate xxc
• hiromoto knives

[Chefknivestogo]

Sweeping the knife is perfectly acceptable. It takes a little more practice and the back and forth method is easier to pick up and get good results for first time sharpeners.

I will order the Imanishi 1K bricks again. I still use mine and I like it.

[Chefknivestogo]

The first stone was one I picked up from Imanishi. It's a 1K stone and kind of like the Bester 1K stone. The second stone is the Sanyo 6K stone. It's silky smooth.

Flattening a stone helps do 2 things. It cleans the metal out of the pores of the stone and it keeps the stone from dishing. The cork removes any burr on the knife. When I first started I painted the edge with a marker and then checked for a burr. Now I can feel when I'm on the edge so I don't mark or check the edge anymore.

[7x57mmMauser]

Please let us viewers know if you get in any of those large Imanashi 1K bricks. It seems there are several of us who want them.

[jedirifleman]

is the 1st stone available at your store? what brand is it?

[herbender]

why would you put 2 waterstones of different gritts in the same container?

[7x57mmMauser]

@MDCeasar Thats the best part of knife sharpening. Whichever way gets you the results you are looking for is the correct way. We all have some different preferences on hold, angle, using one hand or two, going with the edge or with the spine. In the end the only thing that matters is that YOU are happy with your results.

[MDCeasar]

I'm curious: When I see people use water stones, they always hold the knife perpendicular to the stone, and push straight away, sharpening only a small section of the blade at a time. Would it not be advisable to stroke the blade across the stones diagonally, heel to tip or vice versa? Love the Hiromoto AS (I think that's what you're sharpening). I use a 210mm Gyuto.

[710HS]

@XMetalChefX

Mark can promote whatever item he wants, it is his right manage his comapny.

But instead using sing bridges you can use wood board like Murray Carter does. it will be cheaper and the effects will be the same. The same goes with diamond plates, I have bought 3 (150,300, 400) diamond plates for 4,5 USD sold by Lidl (large supermarket chain here in Europe) and they work perfectly fine for sharpening and lapping. Ultimately, it's customer decision what he/she will buy.

[XMetalChefX]

@710HS OK I AM STEPPING IN. Who are you to tell ANYONE what they need. Mark runs a business. He is promoting a product he likes, and thinks comes in handy. I personally do not use sink bridges because I have a bad back and prefer to sit down to go through my 7 stones. HOWEVER, I have seen people use these, and its worth its weight in gold at 50 bucks. NO MESS NO CLEANUP JUST SINK. So please refrain from telling people what they need. Same for the person who said you don't need to lap stones.

[7x57mmMauser]

I would buy a stone like that Imanishi 1000k if I could find one.