Recent content by Rangen

Why, are the files that your farrier uses to trim your horse's hooves any different?

That is completely awesome. It also gives me a nice "See, I told you I didn't have a problem -- I'm not like this guy" moment.

Recusing myself because I love the elegant, detailed, and subtle feedback that the SG stones provide.

Nonstick works, but has no soul. Once I got my coating game down, I switched to cast iron for scrambled eggs (and fried eggs), and that super-thick aluminum omelet pan that Julia Child originally had made out of torpedo tips. I do have the small nonstick one, I got it first, but I was almost...

Yes. It does come with an entire round flattening stone with handle; with the NSKs, I only got a small fragment, which is much harder to use. I think that flattening stone commands a pretty high price on its own.

Thank you, I will do that.

The NSK line is so varied that I have to ask which one you're referring to. I've found the Hakuto (1) 800 grit to be a wonderful sharpening stone, comparable to the Naniwas but you get more thickness for your money -- the thin is considerably thicker than the Naniwa, though I'm not wearing out...

Not having a lick of drawing talent has saved me $129, apparently.

Even without the diamond part, making your own stones is really tricky, to judge by the reports from people who have done it. I imagine it could be a great obsession, if you are inclined that way. But it doesn't seem like territory for dabblers.

(clenches teeth) ...that's...just fine. What's important is that you enjoyed it. (unclenches teeth) Seriously, I'd probably try that myself, and then never tell another living soul.

You're doomed now. Like me. Wrought iron clad: at least as capable, 1000x cooler looking. What's not to like?

Can't talk now. Emptying that bin that holds all the little yellow dots punched out of the paper tape by my ASR-33.

It's the opposite in Singapore.

Yeah, but it's walnuts. Those don't even taste good.

With soft stainless, yes. I was intending to describe how you could take off all the sharpie, and mess up the edge. Let me try again. Imagine that you have taken off all the Sharpie, and you have a perfect edge. Now do one more stroke, with the knife raised up 5-10 degrees. Just one stroke, on...