Recent content by droshi

This looks like a great knife! I'll take it if still available. Will DM you now

Traded

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Wife has decided to keep trades just to the Ginga or very similar. She's used that knife before and seems to really like. Thanks for all trade offers to those so far.

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bump, it's a very nice knife, just requires extra care as it's carbon steel. Will entertain any stainless petty trade, or best cash offer.

Was hoping to see a petty (or 5) in that list! Good luck with sales, looks like an amazing set of knives.

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Also interested to trade for another petty. Looking at the Gesshin Ginga 180mm or something similar.

price drop to $225 Also, someone had mentioned to me in a PM that this blade is likely carbon/carbon. I bought it from another KKF member, so not sure the exact composition.

Based on more info, my price is a bit off, dropping to $250 shipped.

I believe the knife is similar to this one, but carbon cladding instead of the damascus cladding, hopefully it gives a bit more info. http://www.japaneseknifeimports.com/gesshin-heiji-150mm-kurouchi-damascus-semi-stainless-wa-petty.html

probably better you got it before I showed this to the wife...

Here she is! Selling because my wife finds it difficult to care for the steel. I feel it doesn't react too quickly with a patina, but after a sharpening it takes some care until the patina builds. I don't find the cutting edge to be very reactive, my guess is that it could be a semi-stainless...

Basically you load a 4-sided strop with 4 different pastes. Usually in a progression that makes sense for your setup. If you don't have much for stones, I'd probably start somewhere around 15-10 micron. Although many people just load them for use after their main line of stones, you can...