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Hello, thourght some here might have some experience with this here. I have a Narinia? santoku, with a wa handle with plastic ferule, and the ferule is loose I have without success tried simple all purpose glue as I did not expect this to need much. Do you know what is the simple solution here...

Hello I got me a new projectknife, monosteel sk. It's nothing crazy, but it's hard enough that a lot of my abrasives don't really want to dig in. The knife is thin so the plan is to redo the surface finish to something in the 180-400 grit range to avoid creating a large suction cup of a...

Just finished heat treating these 4 knives, the slicer gave me hell trying to heat it, so this has been my first warped knife, got most of it out with a hammer on wood before tempering. I'm thinking I'll give it another go after second tempering cycle tomorrow. I really would like to encourage...

Hello kkf I'm doing a few knives to keep me occupied these days, the two of them is iron clad white Hitachi, I wondered if water quenching would be a good idea for them, as the specification started that the window for a good quench is much more forgiving with water. I'm attaching an image of...

I know I know this has likely been discussed more them once, but I had little success trying this before and I recently stubbled upon a YouTube video recently that made me want to give it another go. I just wanted to know what you think of the guys theory, basically clean, very very lightly...

Bare with me if this is kind of nooby or cringy to some, but I really wanted to try the process and see what i could achieve on my own if I just tried. Hello, kkf, so I decided to try and make a knife, the but a steel bar, cut and grind to shape. I'm working on a dirt cheap belt grinder, with...

Hey, so after vaguely recall a video on YouTube, I walked into this thinking it would be super simple and quick, but after giving it a go with a hammer and a small chisel I'm not so sure. Title should be almost self explanatory, I'm trying to cut out a corner of my Tomo nagura, to create a...

Hello kkf, have anyone got experience removing emalje from pots and pans? Or is it something I should refrain from doing? Thinking about just taking some 120 grit sandpaper to the pot and clean of the bottom, or the whole pot. I know this is something you usually find out whether of a good...

Hey kkf, so inspired by another forum member, that sometime ago posted a re profiling of his small carter i decided to share my latest sharpening project. This is not a project that i expect will get the most street creed, but i love to see these transformations myself so i thought i might share...

well the question is simple if you don't want to read all the text. hey, kkf, i have quite a few stones by now, and feel like i got the knife thing down. But a few months ago i got a straight razor, i have put it on some of my finest stones, and stropped it on compound, 0,5 micron diamond but...

Hello kkf this may be a weird knife to desire, but it's something a really dreamed about before I ever could efford spending money on a knife myself. Yes I have seen the kearu, and as much as I want to be excited about it, I'm just not. Now it comes down to what size, im buying today as it's on...

Hello kkf, i really dont feel like going into too much detail about the knife, but i can if you must know. Anyway story is i got me a knife yesterday, advertised at about 58-61 hrc, which is totally fair to me even if it is a few hrcs lower, we are talking about a more amateur-ish young maker i...

I havent decided whether i think this is awesome, useless or if it something that has already been done? Also im more of a lurker then poster, but this idea caught me by surprise so i had to share it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWPW9KJR7Wk&t=345s you can just skip to about 5:45. So...

Hey kkf, i recently found a cheap carbon pan in Aldi. I know it's not great compared to the good pans but I thought it was a great opportunity to see what it's all about, but I cannot seem to get it down, up and running properly, I know it's not an exact science but I would love to read up on...

Hello, so I got this new cheap koppa, and quickly upon inspecting it I realized there stone is convexed at the direction of the length of the stone. The thing is I seem to recall some polishers utilizing stones they are intentionally convexed, so I was just wondering if it's a bad thing per se...

Hello kkf, I've got me a thin jnat that is on the thin side, sold as 15mm, and I'm thinking about mounting it to a wooden base. It may be mostly insecurity about it, because I don't want to damage the stone. wondering about stuff like if it matters what kind of glue I should use, and if I...

Hello KKF! I got me this stone i'm pondering about weather to permasoak, so I've been looking around for information on it online and there are very little to be found. I asked the retailer what he could tell me about the stone when i got it, and all he could say was soak it for about 15 mins...

Hello kff, so recently i got me two coarse jnat cheap from a German store I hardly dare name in here :-) love em so far that's nut the point, we are talking about an akamusa aka/totatoe? And a johaku/binsui?. Anyhow they don't raise a slur on their own on carbon with normal usage, so I was...