How to use the KNIFEPLANET Flattening Stone to Flatten a

Here's a tutorial on using the KNIFEPLANET Flattening Stone. The Fixer stone is available for sale, and it's ideal to sharpen stones of 400 Grit and over.
To use the stone, place it in water for a couple of minutes. Also, draw vertical and horizontal lines on the damaged water stone. Afterwards, rub the KNIFEPLANET Flattening Stone on the dished sharpening stone until no more pencil lines are visible.
Once all the lines disappear, the stone is perfectly flat and ready to be used :)
Tips:
-Keep the pressure high and constant while flattening
-Keep the stones lubricated with water
-Get into the habit of flattening your stones frequently, so the process will be much faster and easier.

[@jessec7221]

Thank you for posting this I just bought a knife sharpening kit and I have no idea what most of the parts are for so this it's very helpful thank you again.

[@ZodiacKillerSFPD]

I'm in the exact same situation now too. I bought a kit and wasn't even sure which side of this thing to use 😂

[@epicdillweed]

Massive respect to you. I made a video of how to use a leveling stone to fix a stone that was off by .3 degrees and it took about 45 minutes of hard labor. The fact that you are doing this on a stone that looks to be about 6 degrees off, I can only imagine the pain, hard work, and frustration of having to do this. Ps high grit (3,000) stones take much much longer to level out.

[@epicdillweed]

I guess due to the much lower grit, this seemed way easier. Would not recommend doing this on a 3,000+ grit stone. 8k grit stone took me about an hour to fix a stone that was only .3 degrees off.

[@rodolfoplasencia9739]

Thank you! Loved the video! This, making the stone flat would be useful in my opinion to resale the stone because you're losing 2/3 of the stone every time you flatten it. On the other hand if you try to use the other 2/3 areas you basically use your stones 3 times or you'll get more our of it. Then after you feel you used it the 3 areas if you want to still flatten it fine, but consider what I told you to triple the value of your stones or to utilize your stones sharpening areas better! Let me know if you understood.

[@stevejungdo]

Hi. Thanks for your video. Very well explained and presented. I had bought 2 whetstones for my straight razor. I couldn't get it to sharpen properly. I ordered a flatting stone and used it on my razor following your method with the marked lines. (The brand new whetting stones were not flat.). After flatting the whet stones I was able to get a fantastic sharp razor with a straight and even edge. NB. I bought the straight razor to save on the wasteage from disposable razor blades. Thanks again for your video. 👌👍👍

[@timothycormier3494]

Thanks man! Video was helpful!

[@dougevans9975]

Thanks for the tip.

[@DmitriMironov]

Thanks, informative!

[@ruben7807]

Thank you!

[@jurijsolncev1630]

Now i will geh a flattening Stone too thanks

[@cheeze7700]

Just bought a flattening stone after noticing how warped my stones have become. Will this eventually happen to the flattening stone as well?

[@NumbDogma69185]

My guess is probably not since you using the whole surface area of the flattening stone instead of only a certain of the surface (like the center or edges)

[@justinwallis9832]

What’s the song in the beginning of the video?

[@chowman5308]

Is it necessary to clean the flattening stone after used? I've used once and leave some color of the grit water stone on it, will it affect to the quality of flattening?

[@tysonromaniuk7674]

It shouldn't, the colour left on the flattening stone is just some dried mud from the sharpening stone so it should still be just as abrasive. That said you could use some higher pressure water to try and get more of the grit out

[@chowman5308]

@@tysonromaniuk7674 thanks!

[@User100mil]

@@chowman5308 yes, get of the material from the steel, it will actually do so it takes more times to sharpen your knife since it is grinding against the metal leftovers on the stone

[@melkonindjarabian4818]

I have a naniwa 12k stone. I bought a Norton flattening stone to flatten it. Will it mess up the grit?

[@gonorsilvet2581]

No assuming the flattening stone is 320 grit at least.

[@ared18t]

Just rub one of your other higher grit stones with it to get rid of the flattening scratches

[@1uP-v2]

What's the other side for? The side without the lines.

[@milesoster3122]

The other side doesn't really have a use

[@mlg_praxxed7582]

Do i have to soak both stones?

[@darkvulpes4826]

Yep, it's prefferable to keep them both wet during whole proccess, just dip them few times if they get wet in the process.

[@isaac2608]

Now how to flatten the flattening stone? 😂

[@keithc1335]

This is not a complaint about the video, but instead the tool itself. I absolutely hate those “flattening” stones. They are much too short and they should make them longer than the water stone. The “flattening” stones also wear very quickly and then they need to be flattened themselves! Mark your stones with a pencil, grab a bucket of water, and head out to a flat spot on your sidewalk. You can flatten your stones in 30 seconds on the concrete. It also works great for flattening your “flattening” stones. I really did like the video where you used the flattening stone to fix a damaged blade. I also use the edges of it to cut grooves into my nagura stone so it doesn’t suction to my high grit stones.

[@williamdavis8910]

So I tried you sidewalk trick with my 16000 grit shapton glass stone... I think It fucked it up because now my plane irons aren’t sharpening strait across and the stone has really deep scratches and gouges from the super rough concrete

[@Jakeylicious7891]

@@williamdavis8910 you seriously listened to a youtube comment compared to the hundred of pros posting vids online to use a flattening stone?

[@tysonromaniuk7674]

I think the low grit of concrete could damage higher grit stones

[@keithc1335]

@@Jakeylicious7891 1.) Producing KZbin videos doesn’t make you a pro. (This comment is for Jakey) 2.) Murray Carter was the one I learned this from. Maybe you should question his knowledge? You clearly know more. (This comment is for Jakey) 3.) I’m amazed William dished out a 16000 grit. I haven’t used a shapton glass myself, but I hear they are very hard. Perhaps you wouldn’t want to take that high of a grit to a sidewalk. 4.) Dishing isn’t that big of a deal in high grit stones. Unless you are doing chisels, planer blades, or other single bevel edges; a slight dishing in a stone will give you a naturally convex edge. It will also be more forgiving and ensure that you are covering both the top and bottom of the bevel.

[@MsCellobass]

Looks like a waste of time and stone. Why not sharpen the knives at either end? Why file down the stone when you can very well just sharpen on each end?

[@anonymousinternetuserfawke3295]

Because there will always be a divet at either end since the very end of the stone will not be worked, that is the entire surface of the stone can't be covered evenly/worked on with each stroke. There will always be a little residual space that doesn't wear down because that is where the stroke begins or ends (assuming you don't just run the knife right off the edge, and even then the pressure applied isn't going to be perfectly even no matter what).