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Yeah crisp even continuous shinogi is one of two holy grails of foundational sharpening of single bevels. The other is a planar ura ahahaha. Both pretty hard to do.
musings of a deranged polisher
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Thank goodness I included “deranged” and “musings” in the title of this thread. Leaves me off the hook for creating meaningful content!
I really haven’t had time to put steel to stone recently. And when I do have time, I’m finding it hard to get inspired by the work needed to complete the major projects I have lined up:
I often struggle with managing my own expectations for the outcome and balancing that against the love I have for the process. This stuff can be frustrating. In a lot of ways, I think I put off major projects as I’m not yet certain I will achieve the results I want. The pitfall of a hobby with no skill ceiling… Or maybe its simply that the hours and hours and hours of 200 grit work required to get there in a satisfactory way leaves me yearning for pleasures of silky JNat slurry.
To that end, I caved and bought a belt grinder. Whoopsies. Time to learn a new skill! Hopefully I’ll get to a place where I can accomplish 85% of the rough work on belts and then shift to stones for the final bit. This could cut my each-project time by half realistically and dramatically increase the % of time I spend doing the parts I like - geometry refinement and chasing kasumi. I’ve got a handful of blades to practice with and will dabbling on and off through the summer.
Who knows when I'll finally feel eager to tackle a full project again. And I guess, really, what I'm trying to convince myself of is, do I care? I mean I do, right? Or do I not... IDK.
At this rate if I get the honyaki + 1 done this year I'll be impressed with myself.
I really haven’t had time to put steel to stone recently. And when I do have time, I’m finding it hard to get inspired by the work needed to complete the major projects I have lined up:
- Regrind and polish of 360mm swordsmith honyaki yanagiba
- Handle and polish a yo Heiji gyuto
- Rework of a wide bevel petty
- Polish of 300mm Raquin gyuto-hiki
- Thinning, polish, & rehandle of a Catchie gyuto
- Regrind (ura included) of a tool-smith funyaki
I often struggle with managing my own expectations for the outcome and balancing that against the love I have for the process. This stuff can be frustrating. In a lot of ways, I think I put off major projects as I’m not yet certain I will achieve the results I want. The pitfall of a hobby with no skill ceiling… Or maybe its simply that the hours and hours and hours of 200 grit work required to get there in a satisfactory way leaves me yearning for pleasures of silky JNat slurry.
To that end, I caved and bought a belt grinder. Whoopsies. Time to learn a new skill! Hopefully I’ll get to a place where I can accomplish 85% of the rough work on belts and then shift to stones for the final bit. This could cut my each-project time by half realistically and dramatically increase the % of time I spend doing the parts I like - geometry refinement and chasing kasumi. I’ve got a handful of blades to practice with and will dabbling on and off through the summer.
Who knows when I'll finally feel eager to tackle a full project again. And I guess, really, what I'm trying to convince myself of is, do I care? I mean I do, right? Or do I not... IDK.
At this rate if I get the honyaki + 1 done this year I'll be impressed with myself.
12 months later:
"Musings of a deranged 'stone ready knife' maker"
"Musings of a deranged 'stone ready knife' maker"
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I f’n love power tools
that wants a Yo handle Heiji.
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Things are happening that aren’t stone work.
Thank goodness this will be hidden
Hollow to make getting the perimeter planar on an atoma easier
Hollow to make getting the perimeter planar on an atoma easier
