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Just got this, It's got a strange, sandy 'patina' on it. Khaki colored, not an orangey/rusty color. Cleaned western carbon blade for reference. Some of the moderate pitting, and two spots of active rust: I'm giving this a soak in white vinegar. This image after about 2 hours.

I mean it is hard steel after all... I saw this video () about tank armor steel and thought 'man, that would sell like hotcakes to boomers (like me)'. Steelophites, what say you?

Anybody know anything about them? USA made I assume. Dexter 489 clone. With Henckels/Western style finger guard. Looks like a 1950s/'60s style.

Got this cheap from ebay to fill out my W&M butcher's collection. It had a reasonable price since it had a hole in the handle. Seller's pix: Here's the hole close-up. Driller seemed to manage to even hit the tang. Haven't got too many decent images of the rehab as my phone went down...

These beauties arrived yesterday and I'm quite happy. They looked very clean form the auction photos and in-hand they seem to be never used, possibly even with the factory lacquer on a couple of them (the middle two). The uppermost knife also looked to possibly have a little rust on it so I'm...

Just got in a nice, large J.A.Henckels butcher's knife. 30-11 is the model number so the blade length is 11 inches. Henx made this model number(30) for a number of years with a couple different versions, mainly tang type and handle styles. They also made this model in lengths from 6 inches up...

All your sharpening needs in one handydandy gadget: And what in the actual fudge happened here?!?!?!? Oh the huge manatee!

Any thoughts on this other than just the standard, shortened spearpoint? That's my plan; making it about 3" long or thereabouts. And I don't think I'll mind it at 3 inches. I envisioned a macro nakiri but there's just not enough meat on the bone for that. lol TIA!

The blade's roughly 235mm long (9.25 inches) by about 50mm tall with the spine being about 3mm thick at the bolster and tapering nicely down to 1mm well before the current tip. It's still fairly flat, just all the belly's gone. Any thoughts other than my quick honesuki profile? Original image...

Here we have a F.Dick Chinese style cleaver and a J.A.Henckels of the same type. They look nearly identical, some much so that I think they could have been made by the same company and re-branded. Such a thing was not uncommon in Solingen back in the day. Both have 8 inch blades, the images'...

Inspired by Bagotnj and DerJaeger's posts here; here's an ebay purchase: Pretty good overall condition although the scales seemed dry as they were a light grey color. Here's an after and before image after an overnight soak in mineral oil: For a Henckels product the F&F was surprisingly poor...

A vintage cleaver's been on my bucket list for a few months now. This one popped up a couple weeks ago and I finally finished the restoration (basically just re-handling.) Some before, during and after shots. The new scales are some scrap Maple I have.

I'm just curious if any of you lot have ever used a mezzluna? If so was it functional? And were there any uses other than chopping herbs? TIA. image just for clarity.

I made a hand-held block to hold sandpaper whilst polishing blades. A heavy brass drawer(?)-pull screwed into a 7cm x 2cm x 2cm block of scrap wood that I oiled and waxed since I sometimes sand with water. A bit of a pain to snap the rubber band in place but otherwise it works really well. No...

Dunno if this is the right place for this but... As an addicted Henckels collector I got an older (?) wood chisel from ebay. Some moderate pitting on the steel but it cleaned up well and took a very good edge. It's a nice item for my collection, and may even see some use in future restorations.

This is what I take back and forth to work when needed. It's also a handy place to keep most of my supplies at home in one place. The bag started out as a tool bag from Sears bought back in the 80s. I didn't ever use it until I started putting my digital camera gear in it. Once that camera...

I notice my bottle of Norton sharpening stone oil says "highly refined mineral oil". Or if YES what other common product is better? WD? Other? I'm talking about for use on entry level synthetic stones used on sharpening systems more specifically.

These popped up on ebay today and I find them interesting. Very early 'nogent' style, but Williams Sonoma wasn't started until 1956. Seller states 'probably stainless steel'. Looks like really nice craftsmanship on these IMO. It gives us an idea of what was going around 1960.

Got a good deal on three Henx razors off ebay. I'd been wanting to add one the my Henckels kitchen knife collection just to be a completist. Two were in great shape and this third one had a nearly mint blade but cracked scales. Here's the before shot: Work in progress on the bench. I have a...

I'm trying to get a western, chefs profile back on this western, chef's knife. 9 inch blade length, 1 7/8" height at heel. (230mm, 48mm) What do you think about this mock-up?