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- Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Favorite Kitchen Item?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 212
Re: Favorite Kitchen Item?
Large & a small cutting boards, hand made from re-cycled NZ Kauri, treated with pure Tung oil. So, history, absolutely beautiful and a delight to use every day.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: VG-10 Steel
- Replies: 19
- Views: 383
Re: VG-10 Steel
There is the steel and there is the blacksmith. As long as the steel is decent, which VG-10 is, then it's all about the work of the smith. Heat treatment, profile, grind. The steel has faults, but a good blacksmith minimizes them. I have a couple of VG10 knives a custom and a Shun paring. Like Ouro...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 9:58 pm
- Forum: Knife Recommendations
- Topic: What should my next knife be?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1196
Re: What should my next knife be?
The dates on this thread seem to be all over the place. As a dyed-in-the-wool Shibata fan-boi, I like the Taz's Shibata suggestion, as all the hype around these knives is not misplaced. Also, I have the Shiro Kamo that Jeff refers to. It's certainly got a real in your face, look at me persona, but i...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:30 pm
- Forum: Knife Recommendations
- Topic: Knife Recommendation: Flat Profile Gyuto
- Replies: 13
- Views: 377
Re: Knife Recommendation: Flat Profile Gyuto
Hi there Hilas & welcome to our forum. I'm just a home cook and like taz my first thought was the Yahiko 240 kiritsuke. Firstly, it's a ginsan SS blade, which is about as close to a carbon blade in terms of performance & ease of sharpening as you can get. Very fine grain structure and it tak...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 2:37 pm
- Forum: Sharpening Advice
- Topic: How to improve the edge on my well used Kohetsu
- Replies: 15
- Views: 433
Re: How to improve the edge on my well used Kohetsu
Two great replies above. If you used to able to keep it sharp and now can't, something has changed. Presumably you're using the same techniques, stones etc. If it were me (and I lived in the USA), I think that I would send it back to Mark to be resurrected and then begin sharpening again, focussing ...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 2:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Happy birthday Mark!
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3964
Re: Happy birthday Mark!
Happy Birthday Mark
Keep on trucking .................
Keep on trucking .................
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 2:08 pm
- Forum: Knife Recommendations
- Topic: Sub $200 240 Gyuto in Stock
- Replies: 7
- Views: 265
Re: Sub $200 240 Gyuto in Stock
Here's a couple of knives that could make your list. They are both Ginsan which is a great steel to sharpen. It's like a true carbon in many respects, very fine grained, it sharpens easily, takes & holds a great edge. I like this as suggested already; Yahiko Ginsan Nashiji Hand Engraved Kiritsuk...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Knives Out
- Replies: 21
- Views: 613
Re: Knives Out
A couple of posts here about sharpening Shibata-sans knives. I have a couple of his knives I got back in 2017 ie a 240 Kashima and a 180 Koutetsu bunka. When I first sharpened them I realised that they were a bit quirky so I started a post and got some great input and advice. See below; http://www.c...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Knives Out
- Replies: 21
- Views: 613
Re: Knives Out
Just with the way our kitchen is arranged & used I have my knives in a 5-slot drawer rack on a "rotation" basis. So generally a utility knife, a bunka and 3 gyutos. I swap them around every 4 or 5 weeks, mixing types, brands, steels etc differently and have a couple of outliers that I ...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:43 pm
- Forum: Customer Product Reviews
- Topic: Kohetsu western HAP40 150 petty
- Replies: 7
- Views: 531
Re: Kohetsu western HAP40 150 petty
Great review & I love the subtleties that you bring to it as a pro chef doing this all the time. Thanks, I've still got a lot to learn.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I need assistance
- Replies: 27
- Views: 812
Re: I need assistance
Congrats on a goal for the good guys. I have to say that the result came much quicker than I would have thought
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:58 pm
- Forum: Sharpening Advice
- Topic: Diamond spray/paste medium
- Replies: 9
- Views: 452
Re: Diamond spray/paste medium
Hi Justin and welcome to the forum. There is plenty on this subject in the "Sharpening" thread here http://www.chefknivestogoforums.com/viewforum.php?f=4 as it applies to freehand sharpening as well. There is a current post there already being discussed. Search & hunt for other stroppi...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Galvanic series
- Replies: 6
- Views: 287
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:22 pm
- Forum: Sharpening Advice
- Topic: Bare Strop vs Loaded with CBN or Diamond
- Replies: 20
- Views: 708
Re: Bare Strop vs Loaded with CBN or Diamond
Is what got me started down this stropping rabbit-hole is I can tell a difference when slicing through phone book paper after stropping vs not stropping. So, naturally, I wanted to maximize the effects that stropping may have had. Not that it makes a better kitchen edge.... I think the difference t...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:09 pm
- Forum: Sharpening Advice
- Topic: Bare Strop vs Loaded with CBN or Diamond
- Replies: 20
- Views: 708
Re: Bare Strop vs Loaded with CBN or Diamond
I'm a bit of a luddite with stropping, so take this with a grain of salt. My understanding is that like when you file a piece of steel, the finish has all sorts of detritus, dags and unfinished metal destruction going on at the workface. So to me stropping is a "cleansing" action, to align...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I need assistance
- Replies: 27
- Views: 812
Re: I need assistance
Yes!! "The Internet of Things" is just great, until it's not. The problem is that it's now sooooooo complicated and interwoven these days, that very few people really know what's going on, or how to fix it. I hope that you're able to get good advice / direction and that you can have it sor...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I didn’t believe it.
- Replies: 51
- Views: 1725
Re: I didn’t believe it.
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Have enjoyed following this journey of yours!
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Me too for sure. Unfortunately I don't have the patience to get to this level of "perfection"
Have enjoyed following this journey of yours!
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Me too for sure. Unfortunately I don't have the patience to get to this level of "perfection"
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:09 pm
- Forum: Bensbites
- Topic: Help me design my next batch of knives.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 355
Re: Help me design my next batch of knives.
Why not both & appeal to a wider market?? Gyutos are more popular than "K" tips, so how about a 25% : 75% split or even maybe a 66% : 34% split if you're a gambling man
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:05 pm
- Forum: Knife Knowledge, Skills, Technique and Care
- Topic: Refinish Handle?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3206
Re: Refinish Handle?
holy moly, all the permutations & combinations :o :lol: Thanks for the input and sharing, much appreciated. Polymerized Tung Oil, now that's a new one for me. I will do a bit of follow-up on it, although Mr Xerox, you say you wouldn't use it on cutting boards. Any chance you could enlighten me o...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:34 pm
- Forum: Knife Knowledge, Skills, Technique and Care
- Topic: Refinish Handle?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3206
Re: Refinish Handle?
Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction in that while I'm pretty diligent about my boards, I've never oiled any of my wooden handled knives??????