Spokk
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Hello everyone!
I recently purchased my first sharpening whetstone (two sides) to maintain my knives sharp. I've watched a lot of youtube video tutorials, some were extremely useful and complete.
Yet I still have zero experience in this domain and it's a little bit scary at first, i don't want to ruin my knives. I just came back from japan where i got two new additions and I thought of buying a chef knife at a dollar store (yes they sell those there, and i must admit they look decent enough for the price tag) but unfortunately i forgot.
Anyway, I have a knife for a few years know that I don't use because it doesn't suit me well and I find it somewhat dull (?). It's barely been used, that was my first "real" purchase.It's a Kai seki magoroku Deba knife (MGR-155D). I got it with a huge discount and mostly becuse it looked cool.
I know debas are asymetrical and are sharpened differently but since I don't use it I thought I would try it on this one.
Now here's my issue :After watching a few videos and gathering some info, i've seen that debas are supposed to be sharpened with or without a bevel on the "right" side and dead flat on the concave back side.
Mine has a small bevel on both sides, it came like this from Kai.After checking on the internet (pictures) I saw this was not that uncommon.
Now how do I sharpen it ? dead flat ? Till the bevel is gone ? Or do i maintain the same angle knowing that it's opposite to everything i've learned about debas.
If I go dead flat, how am i going to form an edge ? Isn't the burr going to form and not being sharpend the other way ?
I know this would be more clear with a small sketch lol.
I've read an old thread about this topic here but I still need fresh opinions.
Thank you for your answers.
P.S. I'll try to post some pics
Edit : In the meantime I found a picture online. As you can see there is a small bevel on the cutting edge and the exact same one exists on the flat side
I recently purchased my first sharpening whetstone (two sides) to maintain my knives sharp. I've watched a lot of youtube video tutorials, some were extremely useful and complete.
Yet I still have zero experience in this domain and it's a little bit scary at first, i don't want to ruin my knives. I just came back from japan where i got two new additions and I thought of buying a chef knife at a dollar store (yes they sell those there, and i must admit they look decent enough for the price tag) but unfortunately i forgot.
Anyway, I have a knife for a few years know that I don't use because it doesn't suit me well and I find it somewhat dull (?). It's barely been used, that was my first "real" purchase.It's a Kai seki magoroku Deba knife (MGR-155D). I got it with a huge discount and mostly becuse it looked cool.
I know debas are asymetrical and are sharpened differently but since I don't use it I thought I would try it on this one.
Now here's my issue :After watching a few videos and gathering some info, i've seen that debas are supposed to be sharpened with or without a bevel on the "right" side and dead flat on the concave back side.
Mine has a small bevel on both sides, it came like this from Kai.After checking on the internet (pictures) I saw this was not that uncommon.
Now how do I sharpen it ? dead flat ? Till the bevel is gone ? Or do i maintain the same angle knowing that it's opposite to everything i've learned about debas.
If I go dead flat, how am i going to form an edge ? Isn't the burr going to form and not being sharpend the other way ?
I know this would be more clear with a small sketch lol.
I've read an old thread about this topic here but I still need fresh opinions.
Thank you for your answers.
P.S. I'll try to post some pics
Edit : In the meantime I found a picture online. As you can see there is a small bevel on the cutting edge and the exact same one exists on the flat side