Recent content by btrancho

Congratulations. My daughter also had some bumps in the road around the 30th week of her recent pregnancy which made for some scary moments, but things settled down for the home stretch and I spent yesterday afternoon bouncing my six month old, healthy, happy grandson on my knee. Best...

If you have a Radio Shack store nearby they might have it on the shelf listed as PC Board Etchant. That's where I bought mine recently.

Ha! Look forward to running into you there!

Thanks - I think you're talking about Makeville studios - half hour walk from my apartment. I visited last week and will be signing up for my certification class soon so I can start scheduling shop time. The really nice thing is that, being retired and available most any day, they told me...

Nicely done. Macro photography is one of my interests and these are very well executed.

Someone get a new macro lens?

One step at a time... one step at a time. After 45 years of marriage I know the path. I just took her to Korin and she picked out a Togiharu 210 Damascus gyuto for her "big" knife.

To get the thread somewhat back on track... My wife "surprised" me today by telling me that she ordered the Moritaka on her own, as I had been showing it to her in my effort to get to to abandon her clunker. I immediately emailed Moritaka and cancelled the order, specifically telling...

If I were to be the primary user I'd probably consider the Takeda. However, this is to be a "wifeknife" - My wife wants a new santoku (PLEASE - no editorials here) and I'm trying to bring her around to something better than her current big box store clunker. Any suggestions for other makers...

Thanks, Dave. I'll look elsewhere.

Then can someone give me a link on their web site that points to the line of knives without the problem? It has been stated a few times in this thread (and I admit to not having read all 37 pages) that the "supreme" line seems to have avoided this problem.

Just so that a noobie to this issue is clear - Am I correct that the "supreme" line that is being talked about here is the "Aogami Super Series" in this link: http://www.moritakahamono.com/en/hocyo1-3.html while the "regular" line with the over grind problems is the "Standard" series in this...

Hello all. I'm a home cook who has put together several knives in the past from purchased, preformed blades (that is, I formed the handles). I've done a couple Damascus steak knife sets, a western handled petty and a parer. I found KKF once I started to develop an interest in Japanese...

Can any of you who have done the etching with the ferric chloride tell me the proper way to discard the used acid? It's not something I'd want to toss down the kitchen drain so I'm assuming that there is a way to neutralize it prior to disposal. Or has everyone just bottled it up for future use?