Recent content by pitted_soul

Gang, I got this Nao Yamamoto gyuto thinned by District cutlery a couple of months ago. It lost its original finish with the Damascus and I was curious about bringing it out again without Stone. I bought some Gator Piss that came in yesterday and I immediately started playing with it. I sanded...

I have had a number of Sebenzas over the years and one Shiro. I've had the Inkosi, 31, and 21. Of them all, the 31 was by far my favorite. Had the "contoured" handles but wasn't as stiff as the Inkosi. I had my Inkosi for a decade and the action only got fair. Shiro's are a definite step or two...

Another one of my favorite EDCs. This is the Prometheus Design Werx Invictus. It is an integral design meaning that the frame is made of one solid piece of CNC'd Titanium. No bolts holding it together. I've had custom integrals from Rassenti and a few others and this honestly has a better...

Ooooh, these are sweet. What's the model? BTW, I just picked up a Shinkiro that you rehandled a couple years ago. I love the handle.

Today, the real estate was a little more expensive in my pocket but want to carry a clipped knife. This is a Prometheus Design Werx frame lock. I don't know the name, but it's got a great Loveless-style clip point blade. PDW's QC is excellent and this knife is very thin while still being quite...

This is a fantastic knife and I echo OPs sentiment that Masashi is a VS1 wizard. He's a HT wizard really, he's great at massaging the metals to higher hardness without sacrificing chippiness/brittlesness much at all. He doesn't do carbon too often, but he's got a line coming in a year or two in...

I'm glad you're doing this since our conversation. Count me in, I am in SE TN.

Yours or mine? lol I like that Huon Pine. It looks like butterscotch micarta.

Curly mango and black gum burl with paper micarta liner on my Isamitsu. It was way too blade forward for my tastes so I added some heft in the handle department.

It looks very much like my Nigara/Hatsu collab in a Blue 2 k-tip gyuto. But that would make sense if they get the blades forged and do the sharpening themselves. It does have that Cu like other hatsu/nigara lines, but that pattern looks unique to that Kurouchi SLD/Cu Line in the picture and I...

So, it does have me wondering. I've been out looking at it. It is Sanjo-made SLD according to another site. That aligns with Nihei too. He is an SLD guru too.

That is interesting. Was it disclosed deliberately? I assumed it was made by Nigara with their relationship the way it is.

I saw the big one the Zach got, I assume you were involved in that as he said he got it from Hong Kong recently. It looked super fun in hand. He had it on the counter and I was checking it out. It can unquestionably break some stuff down.

I genuinely like my V3 Tank. The grind is better than I expected at that thick. The HT and the 52100 have been solid. I don't use it a ton, but I like to get mine out every once in a while. I've been recommending the V3 for a bit and still do, I think it's a solid value and performs better than...

The wrought is already done thank goodness.