Free Hand Sharpening with Shapton Glass Stones:

[@MountainAjar]

Excellent thanks for taking time to share with us !!!

[@ericasedc]

@@MountainAjar thank YOU for watching!

[@timtitus2532]

Always a pleasure watching you sharpen a knife. Thanks Erica

[@ericasedc]

@@timtitus2532 it’s always great to see you here with us Tim!

[@dw8143]

I like learning from you. Sharpening is conceptually easy, but really, really hard to do right. Those little details that you offer are worth the time. I use my knives, so they need sharpening, and I’m doing a much better job now thanks to you and Pete from Cedric and Ada. Fun time to be alive. Now, if I can understand how to create the right progression for each of my knives and carving axe…baby steps. Happy holidays to my neighbor in the north. Greetings from Boston.❤

[@ericasedc]

@@dw8143 hey man! So happy to see you here on this chilly Sunday!!! I am so glad you enjoyed the video. Cheers!!!!

[@richterknives]

Ooooh fancy. Shapton Glass

[@ericasedc]

Love these guys!!!!

[@joecalton1449]

good to hear that you are still enjoying it! those new scales are pretty cool! and you did a fine job on that edge!

[@ericasedc]

@@joecalton1449 thank you Joe!!! I need a 52100 knife from ya!!!! I love this little Necker and my Scagel!

[@scoutthedog9310]

Joe is the man! I have a 940 with his 1095 blade. Saving for one of his slip joints.

[@ericasedc]

He is a legend!🎉 I have a scagel of his. ❤

[@kvernesdotten]

I absolutely love the glass/rockstar feel

[@ericasedc]

@@kvernesdotten me too!!!!

[@davidkurle5418]

Nice edge! And Josh never ceases to impress, very nice work he did on that handle👍Have a great Sunday, E!

[@ericasedc]

@@davidkurle5418 Happy Sunday! Yeah Josh is like a mad scientist with handle scales!!!!

[@Knife_guy]

Thank you

[@mikep.9371]

Stones to use and have a strop to rule over them. A nice Sunday surprise video Erica.

[@ericasedc]

@@mikep.9371 Always great to see you M!!!

[@catshark12]

Thanks again!

[@ericasedc]

@@catshark12 as always- thank You!!!!!

[@Knife_guy]

Great video, glad you live the knife. It’s strange to see a pink knife in your hands🤣. You’re totally right about grit discrepancies between brands. I have noticed a similar issue when comparing different brands of sandpaper.

[@ericasedc]

@@Knife_guy yes that is totally a thing!!!!

[@barboki]

Great Sharpening video, learned a lot! Thanks for sharing.

[@ericasedc]

@@barboki yay!!!! Great to see you Brad!

[@KnivesAndPizza]

Awesome video Erica love the content. Hope you get all the moms under your tree for Christmas

[@ericasedc]

@@KnivesAndPizza your mom is my Christmas tree

[@KnivesAndPizza]

@ LMAO

[@singingtoad]

Another great sharpening video and I appreciate your explanations as well. 👍Thanks for sharing, take care and Cheers!

[@ericasedc]

Thanks for watching! Cheers!!!❤❤❤🎉

[@LuisGonzalez-gl4wc]

That’s a beauty. I have always like the Carter pattern. I actually have one of Carter’s apprentice Carter pattern necker in Super Blue steel. I will likely pickup a Calton version eventually, have a couple of his blades. He does nice work and like that he goes harder on the HRC on 1095.

[@ericasedc]

I hope you do!!!!!

[@R.H.bladeNshade]

Awesome video as always E. Kyle made me want some of the Shapton Kuromaku stones pretty bad. I have yet to purchase any because i am still learning to free hand properly. Your videos always help though. Thank you for sharing this and kudos to Josh for the amazing re-handles he did!

[@ericasedc]

@@R.H.bladeNshade I think Kyle makes EVERYONE want those stones!🥰🤣 Always great to have you here!!!!

[@achimgeist5185]

Most of the ceramic stones from Shapton are great, good removal rate and good feedback. In my opinion, the best ceramic whetstone is the Shapton Pro 1000. I mostly use diamond plates from Atoma up to 600 grit and then switch to the Shapton Pro 1000 and also have the 2000, which also has really good feedback. I use the 5000 for honing, but the feedback is not as good, the stone feels hard, like glass, but the stone does its job.

[@ericasedc]

Thanks so much for sharing! 🎉

[@Edcreviewer]

Awesome new vid!

[@ericasedc]

Thanks🎉

[@robertbarker5802]

Do you find an advantage to ceramic over plates?

[@achimgeist5185]

With the same grit, diamond is more aggressive than a ceramic stone. The removal rate is higher with diamond than with ceramic, but in my experience the grinding pattern of ceramic is finer, even with the same grit, if you look at the result with a magnifying glass.

[@ericasedc]

@@achimgeist5185agreed

[@Edcreviewer]

5:35 no the stone doesn't need to be harder than the steel the ABRASIVE has to be harder not the stone.

[@ericasedc]

… the sharpening stone wouldn’t be a sharpening stone without some sort of abrasive. I am pretty sure everyone knows that. Obviously , saying “the “stone” needs to be harder than the steel”, means the stone as a whole (a plate of abrasive material), needs to be harder than the steel. We are all aware of that- but thanks for watching and pointing out the obvious again!🥰🥰

[@zacharysherry2910]

122.5 micron??

[@ericasedc]

@@zacharysherry2910 thanks for watching!♥️

[@snowtiger44]

I use my diamondplate to flatten the rest

[@ericasedc]

There ya go!

[@narkfly]

Homie, you got kids? Who's the lucky lady?

[@ericasedc]

Thanks for watching!🎉🎉

[@wernermoser3406]

🖤🤍❤👍💥👍💥👍

[@ericasedc]

❤❤❤

[@Knifeguy5]

Hahaha, strops the wrong way and in a weird S pattern as to cross hatch the initial scratch patern, thus compromising the edge tooth geometry.

[@ericasedc]

@@Knifeguy5 thanks for watching!