I'm really disappointed with myself. I thought I would enjoy, and be good at, sharpening knives. I don't and I'm not! I have two Shapton water stones and I can get a nice edge on my chisels with a jig that maintains the angle for me, but I just can't get a good edge on a knife. I don't know if I'm not patient enough, if I just can't hold the angle well enough or what, but I give up.
My wife is, understandably, frustrated with a kitchen full of dull knives and bought one of those drag through carbide/ceramic sharpeners and I can't even make that work - I drag a blade through a few times, there is a pile of swarf in the sharpener, the blade looks sharp - but it's dull as dull, maybe even worse than before "sharpening".
We have a range of knives from grocery store mild steel, through decent consumer Mundial and Victorinox to one low end nice Global.
Appreciate any suggestions!
If money is no object, wicked edge.
Also YouTube project farm for alternativs. He did a big review
I thought it would be obvious from my collection of knives - money is a problem.
Thanks - I find him yelling at me for the whole video a bit annoying, but his content is generally good - I'll have a look