And today, on highly cooking, we're here Waguih names.

We're gonna talk Thio Travis wiII owner and proprietor of this custom knife shop, and he's gonna sharpen some of my super dull knives.

Show you how to do that show you have knives were constructed.

I'm really excited because knives are a super important part of cooking.

That's true.

We make custom chef knives, santo coup, boning knives, slicers, petty pairing and even a little bit of, ah, hunting style knives.

Here in Central Texas, we also re handle vintage knives.

But mostly our bread and butter is making extremely custom knives any type of knife that you can dream up with any type of materials.

We can do it.

Well, let's talk a little bit about how you make these knives.

And then we can get to sharpening my terrible knives and show people how to sharpen their knives and help.

Sounds great.

So the first thing we do is talk about the type of knife they'd like, and this one is the most traditional.

This is a German shape.

The knife typically does three things.

There are knives that pierce like a dagger.

Their names that slice like a boning knife and their knives that chop like an axe.

The reason that Chef Knife is still popular because it does all three really well.

This will be a French style knife.

You can see the difference.

It's more shaped like a teepee, and this one's more shaped like an igloo.

So we decide what type of knife they like.

We start taking hand measurements.

Everyone's hand is different.

We also do clay moulds of the individuals hand.

If they wanted, especially made for them, then we talk about weight.

Then we start talking about the handle material.

They can choose the different types of steel.

We have handmade pins that they can choose to go with their wood.

And then we also could do a liner, which gives contrast and makes the knife give it a little bit of ah bounce.

Once somebody decides on their knife, we hand draw their knife.

On this piece of steel, we don't use patterns.

No knife is the ever the same.

So when we have scraps leftover from knives, we make tiny little choppers or we make dear Skinners or we make pretty little box.

Openers would be a really dangerous stocking stuffer.

Put it in there, blade up like some kid reaches their hand in.

They would hate Santa for ever.

So once we have the knife, nice shape, way actually will put it on the grinder thing once we've got the shape and we've got the nice bevel.

Then we actually put in the killing and then we'll start to cook it.

The, um are flattened.

We put him on the testing machine to make sure they're at the optimal hardness, and then they go and move to the handle face.

So I let people choose, which would they like?

We usually keep about 50 different types of woods and materials, but this is kind of Ah, prettiest stuff that we've got right now.

We've actually been making handle material, and this is just a much of cloth mixed with epoxy as well.

How cool you can do your grandmother's quilt.

You can do your wife's sexy panties.

That's right.

Or I even saw somebody actually cut up a game of Thrones book and made a knife with actual paper from the Game of Thrones book, which, Okay, somebody's gonna next make a 50 shades of grey night like a dildo, on the other hand, so you could basically put anything in a knife handle out.

You'll tape it on their drill the holes, then you'll come back.

Put the other one on their drill through this end, then put the pins and then glue it, then let it sit overnight.

Then you can actually start to work it.

Then eventually, as you grind the handle to the form that you want to come out looking like this nice and shining, I think people typically will use maybe three knives, a lot of people by the blocks that have 15 nines.

Um, we don't really believe in that.

We use three knives in our home.

We use a large chef knife, something like this.

Then we use a paring knife.

And then what just is more of a utility but slash a paring knife and sometimes a San Tokyo shape.

If we want to do a lot of chopping, we're making a studio or something like that.

We need to really chop quickly.

So let's talk about how to care for a knife at home.

I brought some of my embarrassingly dull knives.

Let's look at it and show me sharpening.

Okay.

We use a series of wet stones.

I think the safest way for beginners.

Simply push the knife away from me.

We use about a 15 degree, which, um, is about the size of ah, match booked and just go along the edge.

And the way I do it is I do.

Five, five.

Well, 5544332211 Just to keep it even to keep it even.

You need to do the exact amount on it on each side.

After you have it nice and sharp, you can actually use a home, which is a steal.

And you can simply keep your edge honed with a steel.

And yeah, and really practicing this, you'll be able to sharpen your knives in about five minutes.

If you just do a couple of times, the real test is to hang it.

So it's free.

You can cut through that.

You've got something.

So stand somewhere else.

Probably shit.

Then you really wanna try?

All right.

I haven't done this in a long time, but every good I know, right?

Well, you made a big debt.

All right?

Swing is not so bad.

Oh, there.

Why can't I do it once?

I don't like, what's the worst thing you could do to a night at home?

Like glass cutting boards, Glass cutting board.

You're terrible.

Um, opening up Amazon boxes, using it as a screwdriver.

Oh, God.

Um, getting your ice maker on frozen.

You know, you think it has a nice pick using it as it's not intended.

Also throwing it in a drawer with a bunch of other knives.

Um, leaving it in a sink full of water, Putting in the dishwasher even a middle grade night.

Shouldn't be putting a dishwasher.

Yeah, and of course, once a year, you bring your knife to a professional knife sharpener.

There's people at the flea market who do it.

There's people at farmers markets.

All be at the farmer's market in Sunset Valley here, starting at the end of April.

And we'll be selling knives and I'm sharpening knives.

We started making these cool little oh, cool made of mahogany.

Nice.

I love that.

I'll give you one as a parting gift and you tell me how it works.

Thank you.

Probably.

Okay.

Well, thank you so much, Travis.

That was very fun and educational and got my name stripe and and my handmade spatula breaking.

Have you guys here?

Thank you so much and I will put a link below to whitey names.

If anyone's interested and getting a custom knife or have their knife sharpened, or have a nice repaired restore family heirloom, whatever it might be.

Anything knives.

Cool.

All right, well, thanks for watching everybody and see you next time.

What I've always dreamed about when I die of being cremated and her ashes next into clay and turn into a bowl.

And that bull is cursed and whoever breaks it, we'll be cursed.

But I could put it into a knife handle and then it's not breakable.

And then I don't have to have a curse involved.

It could be a curse knife.

That's true.

It could be a murderous weapon you'll like.

It has a mind of its own, right?

Anyone who uses it ends up getting killed with that.

Oh, accidentally like top top?

Yeah, something like that.