I'll be honest with you, after spending three months putting eight different diamond sharpening stones through their paces in my workshop, I can tell you that not all of them are created equal. When I started this test, my main kitchen chef knife had been dull for weeks, and my set of woodworking chisels could […]

I still remember the first time I tried to slice a tomato with a dull chef knife. The blade crushed the skin instead of cutting it, and I nearly gave up on home cooking that night. That frustration sent me down the rabbit hole of whetstones, splash-and-go stones, diamond plates, and oil stones for the […]

I burned through my first whetstone in three months because I had no idea what I was doing. After that, I went looking for the best guided knife sharpening systems and spent the next three months testing six of them on everything from carbon-steel chef knives to a beat-up Buck folder from my tackle box. […]