The Jende Nanocloth Ultra Strop has made another appearance on Sharpco Knives’ youtube channel. This time it features the 210x70mm full sized 0.10 micron strop loaded with the Tormek PA-70 pa
Category: Jende Sharpening Tips
Sharpening a Boning Knife
Boning knives are the bane of any sharpener, both guided and freehand. The slight flex is easy enough to deal with, but the recurve and bolster portion of the blade is the stuff of nightmares on a
Paring Knife Bent Tip Repair and Sharpening
Every now and then, knives fall or get dropped. Sometimes things go tragically wrong and the entire tip breaks off, or in this case, the end just gets bent, but not broken. For this paring knife, w
Repairing a Crack in a Knife – Nakiri/Slicing Cleaver
During the sharpening process, we discovered a small crack/hairline fracture near the edge of this slicing cleaver / Nakiri-style knife. To avoid a more serious structural failure in the future tha
Sharpening a meat cleaver on a water stone
A meat cleaver is one of the hardest working knives in the kitchen. Whether it’s used for breaking down poultry, trimming meat, or preparing vegetables, a sharp edge makes every cut easier an
Sharpening a Meat Cleaver on a Belt Sander
When people think about knife sharpening, water stones usually come to mind. However, belt sanders have been used by professional sharpeners for decades because they can restore an edge quickly whi
Sharpening Robot Coupe Blades
Robot Coupes are pretty serious food processors. They utilize double curved saber-like blades to cut through nuts, frozen foods, seeds and pits. With anything mechanized, it is always more importan
Jende Sharpening Tips – Pantzier Reed Knife
The Pantzier reed knife is basically a single bevel knife with a radius tip. The bevel portion of the blade is sharpened as usual by following the bevel angle. The radius is the tricky part, which
Le Cordon Bleu Taiwan NKUT – Professional Knife Sharpening and Bolster Modification
We were invited to visit Le Cordon Bleu at the National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism (NKUT) to sharpen and restore the school’s kitchen knives. While culinary students ofte
Jende Sharpening Tips – Using the Jende Nanocloth Ultra Strops
So yesterday we loaded up the strops, you can watch that video. As you can see today after the first loading only, you see how black the 1×4 and the 1×6 are still as compared to loaded se