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Gesshin 6K diamond plate (diamond 6000 stone kit). In my opinion more convenient than Shapton, and excellent for stropping.

I recently bought a Sieger rod, and I like it. It is not ideal for sharpening Japanese knives with good steel, for reasons duscussed in this thread, but I have found it to work for using between sharpenings for knives with softer steel. The Sieger ruby rod can be used to sharpen small knives...

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I realize that this is a very old thread. This thread, and in particular, the posts of mrdrinky is responsible for causing me to spend more money on peppercorns than I used to. I enjoyed the Tellicherry and Lampong peppercorns from sirspice (formerly pepperpassion), but you may have noticed...

I am sorry that I badly screwed up. I meant to write that I found some of the posters on Knife Forums and NivestoGo to characters, and accidentally typoded KitchenKnifeForums when I got the name mixed up with Knife Forums. I also mixed up the abbreviations Knife Forums, I guess KF and Kitchen...

Ken Schwatz has stated that in order to get optimum grinding speed from the Nubatomic stones, you should apply "just a little bit of CBN water based spray of matching grit", sort of like Nubatomic stones on steriods. Unfortunately this adds significantly to the price of the stones. I have also...

Heard some of the Coks smell good when wet.

I am one of the worst knife sharpeners on this forum. I too am very anxious about the Presidential race. America will be much safer if Trump wins. I have never shot a gun. I "celebrated" the impending Clinton victory by attending a CCW class today to be able to get a concealed carry permit...

Dave M. is Mr. Big.

I purchased this knife. I $30.63 from an Amazon seller, shipping included.

I just ordered a Spyderco MBS-26 6 inch utility kitchen knife.

Thanks for the information Daveb. I am okay with carbon blades that are mildly to moderately reactive, and I love my Spyderco Gayle Bradley 2 with M4 steel that I use as a steak knife. It sounds like the Tosa may be almost as reactive as the Tojiro ITK. In that case I would not want to use...

Natto, could you please post a link. Also, I don't know any Japanese, so I hope I could use the site. I am willing to risk $40, and I am not expecting to get a great knife, just a reasonable high carbon knife to practice on.

natto: do you know of any other sellers of the Tosa Bunka knives? Hidatool sells a 6.5 inch one for $33.90. The knife only weighs 0.3 pounds and is shipped from Berkley California. I live in Las Vegas. I called Hidatool to get the cost of shipping, and I was ready to buy. They informed...

When I first tried to sharpen, I got to try a Tojiro ITK gyuto. My sharpening ability was slightly worse then than it is now. It was fun to sharpen and easily raised a burr on my 1K SG stone. It sliced paper, but at best only borderline shave. The knife would rust before my eyes as I was...