You can sharpen every knife. Better knifes stay sharper for longer, but they still need to be sharpened regularly. This also applies to ceramic knifes, which stay sharper even longer, but also need to be sharpened after a lot of use.

People with glass cutting boards 🧐🤨

Yes. Best way to sharpen a knife

If you know how to use it. If you do not know got to use it a kit that you just stick in the knife is going to be way better.

It is worth learning. A single two sided whetstone and some basic skill will give you sharp knives for the rest of your life.

Bonus, keep your cheap knives. They are typically a softer metal that will require maintenance more often so you can practice.

Also learn when you need to sharpen and when you need to hone. Your knife may be sharp but the edge is out of shape (folded, bent over). A few swipes of a hone and you could be back to 80-90% sharp.

At this point I use medium value knives and sharpen them once a year. I have no regrets regarding learning to sharpen with a whetstone. I also typically don’t sharpen beyond 1000 grit and it’s still enough for people to remark on how sharp the knives are.

Best of luck.

same goes for flashlights. you won’t stop even if you already own 15 D4V2s (excluding those you already gifted to friends and family ofc)

Thanks for the warning. The last thing I need is another weird hobby

Give them away to friends and family who aren’t into knives. There are a lot of garbage knives out there, so it helps to have a friend who knows what I should be using and how I should take care of it.