How to Flatten a Whetstone - Easiest/ Cheapest Method

well I know it's been a little bit but I hope you guys didn't forget I'm still sharpening guy had the digs of something I haven't been at it for a little while now just because I've been so busy so preoccupied with other things finished not filming with the Newfoundland hobbyists almost done for the season actually the last episode of the finale it's been feeling very excited for that but for today's video what we're gonna do is look at a super cheap super easy way to resurface your wet stones wet stones are my most favorite favorite way of sharpening absolutely love them synthetic being my choice and I have a 400 grit nanawatai here now with a huge hollow it's not necessary to keep your stones perfectly flat all the time a lot of people think that they need to be super flat that's not the case if you're doing a lot of work say sharpening plane irons and something like or something like that chisels then you do need a pretty flat stone but for general use knives and things like that it's fine if your stone is a little bit wobbly even if has a big Hollow just try to use the entire surface of your stone and keep it as even as possible once in a while it will get like mine is now where I have this big huge bow and it needs a little work so I'm going to show you how to do that okay have a look at the hollow and this stone you see those high spots in the corner is that spots that it's just really really hard to use I find it looks even more pronounced on this side you see that big big thickness here and then that big divot down into the middle a little bit of waver and it's more hollow here than over here but we need to correct that I'm going to take it right down to a perfect flat certainly better than this because it's starting to get a little bit uncomfortable you're starting to be able to notice it when sharpening I'm gonna start by throwing my stone here in my container of water these are wet stones they need water to work properly I use just a plain old Tupperware container and I want to resurface my Woodstock stone here as well and I might as well just check out my other Nanoha give it a light resurfacing so I'll throw these in for just a couple minutes while we're getting set up here so I'm just gonna grab any sandpaper really something to hold up to some water this is 150 grit paper and so it's quick course you could even go coarser and I'm you just want to get yourself a nice flat surface of course you need to sharpen against a flat or you need to file your stone against a flat surface that you can end up with a flat surface so I'm just gonna take my stone and work it on this sand paper okay for the Nanoha stone since long enough this is not hardly a big enough piece of sandpaper here but it'll do for now so you're just gonna get to work start filing away obviously the bigger divot you have in your stone for more filing that's gonna need but this stone here it's pretty soft so you should file pretty quick you can see where it's contacting so we have a real high spot all the way across here and on this corner so this will really let you see how bad your stone is your paper will fill up with particle from the stone so once in a while you need to either shake that off or rinse it off or something like that so use what you'll notice to such high spots will get bigger and bigger just like that there this is going to take a little while I won't show you guys all of it because of course just pretty boring works just something you kind of have to take your time and do so you can see I'm all the way there except for this bit of hollow in the middle but it's so close there now that I'm not gonna go any further this is close enough that it's not going to affect me at all the next thing you want to do you've taken it down enough now so that you probably have sharp edges all the way around again and I hate those sharp edges so I always make sure I just give a little bit like that on my four top edges just so it's surrounded a little bit if not you don't do that I guarantee your edges will be catching the edges of your knives will be catching the top edge when you run your knife back over and you're cutting over that edge and when you dip a little bit your knife is just gonna chop right into your stone which is gonna break your heart it's gonna both not your stone and spoil your edge so that's how I flatten my stones super easy super cheap you see I let my stone dry out and it works just as well dry although it creates more of a mess so you can be the judge dry or wet not a big deal I just didn't bother keep soaking it this Nanoha is now back in shape I'm going to do my other couple one final point if you use a really coarse sandpaper which I've done before side down around 60 to 80 grit it's gonna leave scratches in your stone so you're going to want to finish on something up around this here which is 150 this 150 leaves a beautifully smooth finish which is fine but something like a 60 or and 80 Willy you'll see those scratches in your stone you're gonna want to get rid of those because those all out your knife age will grab in it when you're sharpening hope this video helped you out if it did please hit the like button subscribe to my channel if you haven't already check out the sharpening playlist tons of content that I think will be very helpful for you if that like button leave me a comment down below we'll see you in the next video

Channel: Kyle Noseworthy

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Length: 6min 3sec (363 seconds)

Published: Fri May 11 2018