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https://i.imgur.com/TAgBppu.jpg I use maple syrup and rope! Just kidding. Marine grade timber varnish is where it’s at. The twine was just for a stone that I was concerned about cracking and wanted to reinforce a little. Not entirely sure this link is gonna work. Here’s a stone stone that needed mu...

As for Monzento, see, the polish was not as good as I was expecting. An okay working finish but an edge that leaves tooth for days. Great for butchery! Lovely for cheap moderately soft stainless. It’s also only useful for about 20 passes before it dishes like a hot toblerone chocolate. I’ve been us...

Team Aizu is gonna chip in here. I’ve had miserable luck with aoto and find Monzento more useful for nerding out on polishes. Aizu is a great intro stone and leaves just about the best kitchen knife edge you could hope for, at about 5k

All sold. Thanks guys

$200 takes it on the last remaining stone

Mega uchi is sold

desol wrote: ↑Sun Aug 06, 2017 10:09 am

You need something...just to use the stones, right?

And low spots in wide bevels make me stabby

desol wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2017 2:09 pm My naturals are as, if not more important, and cherished than the knives.

This.


I had to begrudgingly stump up for some more knives because I reached the point in the testing and experimenting cycle where I was polishing and sharpening already very keen and very shiny blades

Hijack away, I'm a big proponent of paying less for smaller stones; stones with slight irregularities such as dropped corners or non-intrusive cracks/lines etc. It's a diminishing rate of returns with stones and the sought after traits of size, uniformity and colour/pattern. At some stage I'll do a ...

Sometimes a stone needs to speak for itself.. hear is the Pyjama stripe iromono finishing a Toyama. It's not often I get an edge like this: https://youtu.be/oEoZtY_DcYc That said, I can feel the occasional particle and am accordingly lowering the price. $280 gets it before shipping. Got me a Mert to...

Great post kit. You've done absolutely the right thing there kit & your process is good. And as an affirmation of the why, Kyoto finishers (though I'm inclined to think that looks like an Aizu) are layered like phyllo pastry, making the sides vulnerable to water ingress and has caused more than ...

Get a muddier, softer stone to start with and have fun. It's deep precipitous fall into the jnat hole but it's exhilarating as various stones reveal their secrets. You'll nerd out over nuances over time. You'll become a better sharpener for having learnt to read feedback from various stone. You'll b...

All SPF except the first stone and the last stone.

Let's try $340 on the Iromono and $300 on the ultra fine Honyama finisher.

Or

Dangle me a trade.

Doh! Thanks Joe, ~ $350 o.n.o

The Namazu & Uchigumori contributed to this finish



https://youtu.be/RTOlikT5rZk

Honyama pyjama stripe iromono 205 x 79 x 47!! This one is harder than it looks where most people expect red stones to be muddy softies. This one doesn't give off much mud but is still polish friendly. As a vintage stone it's benefited from a good lapping to open it up and leaves keen non-slippy edg...

I'd love to hear how a a regular yoshimitsu offering in white 1 or blue
A) cuts
B) sharpens up on naturals in terms of edge refinement and polish on the cladding (ie does it darken up, get shiny, get sandblasted, get clouds etc etc)

Thanks J David. I think this has been picked up so I'm gonna say SPF.

$200 plus shipping

I've had farts linger for longer than edges produced by stropping with silly nano-compounds. There's nothing wrong with your technique and I doubt there's a wire edge from your description. Kit had it spot on. Do your diligence at lower grits and get an edge that terrifies you at 1k before moving on...

I can speak for both Zetieum's understanding & appraisal of stones and Watanabe's unfaltering quality of goods. This is kind of a bargain. GLWS