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I see some research coming my way. I haven’t had time to do much as of yet, But I don’t think my wife wants to deal with charcoal for the days where she wants to grill and I’m at work. One of my thoughts has been if weber or Traeger would even be worth it considering cheaper options are like $300 sh...

Thanks for the responses guys

we have a 4 burner propane now that's close to dead. - Hoping to find something that is low maintenance and will fit in the same space in the garage when not in use. and/or over the winter.

First the answer to the original post.. For me, Trancher hit it with a good digital scale or a chef knife. Honorable mention for wooden spoon, peeler, whisk, kitchenaid too. *edit, i want to add thread snips / herb shears that CKTG sells. great for masking tape labels at work. and an EDC pocketknife...

Traeger is one of my contenders currently. I don’t foresee doing much in the way of smoking, though my needs will probably be very basic. Chicken thighs, hamburgers, hotdogs, steaks. Not to say that I wouldn’t try adding smoke if that was an option, but I don’t see it as a dealbreaker for whatever w...

Hey everybody, I think I need to get a new grill.
I’m looking in the sub $1000 range, probably 3 to 4 burners. Don’t need anything extravagant.
Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome. Thank you.

Oh dang. We forgot the tip of taping the tang to the depth you want. I bet that's happened to almost everyone on their first install. Looks good though. BTW my cleanup trick for smoothing out the glue is to torch a spatula a little bit and the wipe/scrape/press it around the tang hole until it looks...

I usually tape up my handle and blade for easy cleanup anyone have tips for this?
One thing I have noticed is that some tapes can lighten kurouchi. Maybe obvious if you think about it, but good to be aware of.

Watch out for a wire edge (burr) on those softer steels also, especially with edge trailing strokes. Try running the edge along a cork maybe, then a few more passes on the stone to finish.

At least it's not Hunts.

Fighting words.

Since we're on the subject, has anyone found it necessary or worth it to make a jig to get the install straight on the first try?
I've had to redo an install a couple times after realizing it was tilted or crooked.. If there's any tips and tricks for this I think would be helpful too.

Wifey and I were driving past loaf lounge yesterday afternoon. Decided to stop in for a loaf but they were sold out of everything.. Ah well.. Another time maybe.

I used beeswax for my Shibata and it held for a while, but it did come loose eventually. I believe much of the problem was that it was not a tight fit from the tang to the handle opening, and eventually the wax got compressed enough to come loose. It did not get loose enough to come out of the handl...

Update contd. Next I pulled out a Shapton M5 12k stone gifted to me by a friend. It has some wicked gouge marks that suggest an otherwise undocumented encounter with great frustration. It gave a streakier finish than the preceding Chosera, even after I’d cleaned it as well as I could. So I pulled o...

Well, I certainly can’t claim any of the credit on this one. That’s how it came. I had had my eye on the “big daddy slicer” a while back and was disappointed that they weren’t being offered anymore. I have use for a nice long sujihiki, but not enough to justify spending a ton of money. Mark and Sue ...

Leaf spring I think

Got this in Nov. Thanks to Mark and Sue for special ordering this 365mm for me.
Daovua

That's the same knife.
Cktg lists them as sg2 and r2, and that they're basically the same steel.