Knife Sharpening: How To Maintain Japanese Waterstones - YouTube

As foodies are as professional chefs we use our tools, our knives on a daily basis. One of the most important things to do with our knives is to maintain them and if that means tuning them up on a daily basis then we do it. With the advent and popularity of Japanese waterstones in the culinary and consumer markets the issue of maintaining knives still exists. At the same time there is a little known and little talked about issue of how to maintain one's Japanese waterstones. The way you maintain Japanese waterstones is through a process called lapping and radiusing. This video deals with how to maintain your Japanese waterstones with this process!