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that is hot stamped in... the black in there is similar to a kurouchi finish. You'd need abrasive of some kind to do that, but its tricky to do without affecting the surrounding areas.

yes.. this is honestly the norm... some of the guys make fun of me for the kind of effort we have to put into making things beautiful along with functional

tatsuya-san does a really great job with his blog and is a naturally curious person... unsung hero of the knife world for sure (and a super nice guy to boot)

i think you may be wrong about them being the same sharpener, though nishida-san does both wide bevel and non-wide bevel. He does mainly do wide bevel now, and myojin-san seems to be responsible for the non-wide bevel stuff. Can vary from order to order and request to request. edit- didn't...

he does a lot of the knives that kikuichi sells... that's his main business

i use this when i run through the ones that come with it (if that happens ever, or if i misplace one): https://www.japaneseknifeimports.com/collections/sharpening-supplies/products/nagura-100

... dont get me started on coffee grinders :facepalm: Welcome (also from LA)

happy to do rounding of the spine and choil of other knives... however, if there's significant refinishing or other work like that, we cant take on that kind of time consuming work at the moment. Rounding the spine and choil on its own, however, is no prob.

We are just limiting the kind of time-consuming work we take on, in order to be able to keep regular sharpening services running more consistently. Every time we open up for thinning and refinishing projects, we'll get a ton of them in just a day or two, and they can end up taking up to 2-3...

i use the big pink stone fixer we sell... its quite fast relative to other methods I've tried

i think people are more likely to have issues with diamond stones from not being flat than any other factor effecting the life of the stone overall Edit: specifically vitrified ones like what i was talking about

just to give a sense of relative use, the current 800 I'm using still has about 50% of its life or so left (maybe a bit more), and its been used to do rather serious sharpening on about 8k knives as a conservative estimate. I'm pretty sure i would have gone through at least 5 king neo doing...

what up... what part of LA?

yes... from us

makes sense... totally get it.... shipping can be EXPENSIVE