u/FluidBaseball9950

Yo, I’m still pretty new here, but I am loovvving whetstoning. All of our cheap knives are so damn sharp now 😂

But now comes the challenge, I just moved on to sharpen the first of our high end knife collection, and it’s made of S35VN steel. It’s super dull right now, I put it on a 500 grit stone for twice as long as I had been doing for my cheap knives and it still won’t cut paper.

With cheapos, I was going 500-1000-6000-strop, and we love the result… but with very hard metals, is 6000 too high? I heard that glass out happens at diff point for harder metals. It’s a shapton 1k and 6k if that makes any difference.

After this one, I’ve got another very dull Damascus steel gyuto. Our other high end knives don’t need sharpening yet.

Hola amigos! I am currently learning Spanish. I have no idea how many hours I have, but I’ve tried to learn a couple times unsuccessfully. In January I decided to try again and this has been my most serious attempt by far.

The big difference in this attempt to learn has been huge focus on listening, since it is biggest challenge. I started with english/american Netflix shows dubbed in Spanish, like Seinfeld and others I’ve seen before, all very easy to watch and hear at this point, I’d say I’m 80-90% comprehension on those (although in January I was at 40-50% comprehension).

Here is Q: what are yalls opinions on listening/watching beyond your ability?

I’ve started watching Club de Cuervos (no subtitles) and I can get context from visual but the speech can be difficult, I’ve started watching each episode twice and second time I catch significantly more details in speech.

I’ve also been listening to No Hay Tos, which is very enjoyable, but a lot of time I just leave playing in background, or I focus on hearing words and don’t try too hard to comprehend, which I think is helping my ear.

Both of these are definitely beyond my ability, but I do enjoy them… have people had good success with a similar angle?

And bonus Q, does anyone have other podcast/show/movie recs that maybe are slightly easier? I get annoyed when they use heavy gringo accent, it’s so patronizing, like, I’m here to learn to understand native Spanish speakers, not gringos.

Hey folks! New to this community. Well, I have recently gained a new addiction 😝, I’ve started collecting artisan knives. My newest are three handmade Japanese knives that were pretty dang pricey (Damascus steel gyuto and nikiri, and a carbon steel petty). I do have some other high end knives but none as pricy or as beautiful as these.

So, here is my dilemma, for my cheap/casual kitchen knives I use a rolling sharpener because I can sharpen many at consistent angle and it’s just easy and doesn’t take practice, but… I think for my higher end knives I want to learn to use a whetstone. I’m a bit concerned about screwing them up though. If I start using a whetstone on my cheap knives, how much practice will I need before I can confidently work on something so much nicer? Or should I just plan to have a pro do it for the really nice ones? I’d prefer to do it myself if its feasible in next 6 months without going crazy