It's all about understanding how they're different from Western knives.

A dull knife is a useless tool. While electric sharpeners offer convenience, speed and power, manual sharpening stones, called whetstones, offer greater control over the angle of an edge. They’ve been ...

In the long list of skills grandpa knew better than us, there’s the ancient art of knife sharpening. It takes more than a honing steel and a couple swift swipes of the blade to tighten an edge: ...

“The traditional test to see whether a knife is sharp is to reach behind your head and cut into a hair,” Jonathan Broida, owner of Japanese Knife Imports, explains at a knife sharpening demonstration ...

Bernal Cutlery owner Josh Donald, 40, has been sharpening knives professionally for 15 years. Every dollar you give in June is doubled until we hit $85,000! About 65% of our revenue comes from ...

At a party, dull is a drag. In the kitchen, dull is dangerous. Keeping your knives sharp is essential so you don’t risk slipping or twisting your wrist (and hurting yourself more) when cutting through ...

In this video I visit a traditional tool shop to have a master craftsman sharpen a Japanese kanna, the hand plane used for shaving katsuobushi, or dried bonito. I film his careful work at the ...

As it gets closer to Thanksgiving, Josh Donald has quite a few knives to sharpen for the big day. Then again, there’s always plenty to be done at Bernal Cutlery, a Japanese whetstone sharpening shop ...