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Nico Nicolaides helping to pseudo-supreme some clementines for my kiddo. Love the wood on the handle (I know this is not proper technique but it’s quick and I eat/suck the juice out of the scraps)
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Minty Troopah…
That’s a good one!
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Got a new drawer storage block and cleaned up my bottom wall rack. Now have 50+ knives organized and at the ready easily accessible in the kitchen. Feeling pretty saturated. One in, one out from here on.
Cleaning and portioning a whole slab of Dry Age Ribeye
Removed the chip in my Yoake. I decided to do a bit of thinning (just a little, I thought), then I started chasing high/low spots. Now it looks a bit messy. Between the highs and lows and weird uneven cladding. If I go back through my stone progression will this look better? 
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If you just want it to look more presentable again and aren’t bothered about doing a full stone polish, sandpaper would be the quickest way to get to that result.Removed the chip in my Yoake. I decided to do a bit of thinning (just a little, I thought), then I started chasing high/low spots. Now it looks a bit messy. Between the highs and lows and weird uneven cladding. If I go back through my stone progression will this look better?
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I was about to say this.
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On the other hand, if you specifically want to do it all with benchstones for the practice, then yeah you will want to drop right down to a coarse grit.
Chasing out a low spot means you’re having to remove material pretty much everywhere else on the bevel to bring the low spot up to the same plane.
This can take ages (as in multiple days of effort) and will require additional work to either follow the original geometry, or add convexity back in to your own tastes.
Removed the chip in my Yoake. I decided to do a bit of thinning (just a little, I thought), then I started chasing high/low spots. Now it looks a bit messy. Between the highs and lows and weird uneven cladding. If I go back through my stone progression will this look better?
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That right there is why I'm not a polisher. It's every knife man.
Yep, sandpaper.
Easter Weekend rotation. Start to really like 260mm.
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I hear ya, buddy! And what’s nicer than cutting in half a hard boiled egg with a 260!
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The slow blade penetrates the winter squash
Cutting a peeled hard-boiled …I hear ya, buddy! And what’s nicer than cutting in half a hard boiled egg with a 260!
That handle is so reminiscent of a dry aged piece of meat… the bottom looks like the meat and everything above it all looks like levels of pellicle
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Damn that’s a shame. I’ll gladly pay you for the raw material if you’re just going to throw it out.
On a serious note, I’m assuming this was dunked in something? Can’t put my finger on what would leave the core spotless like that.
On a serious note, I’m assuming this was dunked in something? Can’t put my finger on what would leave the core spotless like that.
It’s intentional - I’m using a technique called rust bluing to restore the KU as part of a full refresh of this blade before it enters service for myself. Alternating cycles of forced rust and boiling create a very durable black oxide finish on areas where the KU has worn over time. Much much better results than a nasty bluing chemical solution
Very interesting. Definitely assumed it was intentional, I’ll read into it more
Man I love this knife!
I use this thing all the time. It serves duty for me as something of a utility knife. From breaking down poultry to quick citrus cuts to opening food packaging, this knife handles all those smaller and finer tasks.
Kawatsu 120mm Funayuki.
I use this thing all the time. It serves duty for me as something of a utility knife. From breaking down poultry to quick citrus cuts to opening food packaging, this knife handles all those smaller and finer tasks.
Kawatsu 120mm Funayuki.
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