Sharpen a Pocket Knife (Medium Grit)

simple enough this knife sharpener comes ready to rock and roll it already comes with the medium band and that's the medium band right there so you've got a fine which is 6000 grit you've got a medium grit which is 220 and then you've got a coarse grit which is 80. so we've got the medium grit on and that's what we want to start with and we're going to start with our dulles knife and before we even try to sharpen this knife we're going to beat it up a little bit so that makes for yeah she's dull she's really dull so on the top edge right here you have a setting for kitchen knives and pocket knives so 20 degree angle and 25 degree angle we're going to go ahead and set this for the pocket knife which is the 25 so not only do you have the two different angles of cut here and you can see there's little leather pad right in there we'll reinstall our belt it's just as simple you just press down install the belt give it a little trigger pull and it re-centers itself then you have a guide for your knife to ride upon here so you can flip this guide down like that and not use it or flip it up for sharpening knives and using it so the way this works is you've got a trigger right here you just pull that trigger so you want to start with your knife on here pull the trigger and let off when you get to the tip we're going to do two times on this side then we're going to go two times over here on this side [Applause] okay you can already see we're starting to get a blade and what we want to do is we want to push our finger over that blade and we want to feel like i can feel it right here you want to feel it catch your finger okay so when it catches your finger that's when you know you're about ready to switch over to