Recent content by pechelman

just a quick followup. It's been ~6mos, use this thing on a near daily frequency and about one month ago is when i finally started to notice it wasnt crazy sharp. took my time, progressed up to a 5k s&g gesshin, stropped on CrOx, and was done in ~5-10 mins. such a fantastic knife. so...

already have a 1k chosera, it is great, but dont want to have to buy another one. I want the chosera with the permanent base as noted. i dont know why, but I always forget about the shaptons going to take a look at them again. thanks If I was after the most similar to a 1k Chosera, would...

good question The chosera is sitting on a base. I had seen\read a few examples of the 5k Chosera cracking and decided I should go with a permanent base. The gesshin on the other hand is un-mounted. I havent experiemented with it at all, but the "bottom" side looks significantly different...

I thought I had it all figured out for sharpening all of my knives and razors, with a reasonable number of stones. DMT325 (lapping and chip repair), Atoma 1200 (lapping\nagura), Chosera 1k, Gesshin s&g 5k, and j-nat for razor finishing. The only stones that see "double duty" are the Chosera...

The knife arrived last night. Cooked a simple dinner last night, but suffice it to say, I had enough time with it to tell that it’s a totally different knife. It cuts great and has definitely exceeded my expectations. I let my wife try it out too and she was just silent as she was very slowly...

Just a quick post-Thanksgiving update. Right after my last post, I got a prompt email from Jason over at Carter Cutlery instructing me to send the knife back in. Yesterday I got an email from him that they got the knife, and that the knife was thinned and had the secondary edge reground and...

Thanks for your input here. I went back and looked at the knife, and mine is actually 1.5mm just infront of the carter stamp. Just like you, I've starred at my knife from the same angle, and after a bit of thinning, it is obvious it has "shoulders" as you put it. Great metaphor. Perhaps...

thanks for the replies guys Drafting an email right now. Will follow up with an update if people would like to know. And yea, the primary edge on his knife out of the box, was as one would expect, very very good. Even still, I wanted to eliminate that as a variable and got an amazing edge...

I am relatively new here, but not knew to knives, and certainly not new to sharpening. (straight razors, jnats, etc) I have a modest selection of kitchen knives, the ones of note being a 210x95mm Takeda Cleaver, 220x120mm Moritaka Cleaver, 240mm KU Itinomonn Gyuto, and a 180mm Carter KU...