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You can find more detailed information at http://www.messer-machen.de on Leo's knife sharpening page. With these instructions for sharpening knives in 5 steps, you will learn the basics of sharpening a knife from completely blunt to really sharp. The sharpness to shave hair off your forearm should definitely be achievable. For this I use a hard-bound whetstone and leather straps with polishing paste. A Japanese water stone, also with leather straps and polishing paste, works just as well. Step 1: Pre-grinding - rebuilds the cutting edge of blunt or jagged knives - coarse whetstone: http://www.messer-machen.de/schaerfmi... Step 2: Main grind - removes the traces of pre-grinding on the cutting edge - medium whetstone: http://www.messer-machen.de/schaerfmi... (Step 3: Fine grinding - particularly useful for high-quality fine-grained steels (often rusting), or for carving work, can be skipped for stainless steel knives of normal quality Zwilling, WMF, etc.) - fine whetstone: http://messer-machen.de/schaerfmittel... Step 4: Reduce burr - prepares the cutting edge for removal of the burr Step 5: Remove burr - finally, the burr that formed when sharpening the knife is removed so that the maximum sharpness is achieved and can be maintained for as long as possible. - Leather straps with polishing paste: http://www.messer-machen.de/schaerfmi... Music: http://www.audiyou.de by gentlegiant