[Ertuit]

Yes, and a pass with a honing steel every day to maintain the cutting edge between proper whetstones sharpening every few months.

[kminehart]

don't use honing steel. at best it doesn't do anything, at worst it damages your knife.

here's a closer look at it with a microscope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4ReQ83CZOQ

[ricardobeat]

Ceramic honing rod. Works amazingly well and is appropriate for japanese knives.

[goopypoop]

just a guy abusing his knife to prove he can't fix it using the wrong tool badly

[Hikikomori]

No? The point was to understand what the tool does and when it can help. And he found out that if you have a Burr it can help. But if you have a properly sharpened knife without a Burr it won't do anything to help and will just destroy your edge.

[goopypoop]

microwaves are useless because they can't toast bread no matter how hard I mash the keypad