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Here is my $12 gun show find. A 7" deba that had seen better days. After spending about 3 hours and wearing a big groove into a 180 grit Norton stone, it cleaned up. Another hour across Bester/ Beston 500 grit/1200 grit stones and polished with a a 5000 grit Suehiro Rika and a leather strop...

I picked up this cool Deba (looks almost symmetrical) at a funshow the other day. Can anyone decipher the writing and tell me who made it? Advice on fixing the knicks would also be welcome. Thanks in advance.

I do love to cook, but I'm not a professional chef by any stretch of the imagination. However, good eats are almost a passion. I will admit that this rib roast got just a shade more done that I would like, but I have a new probe lead coming for my digital thermometer. BTW, everything is cooked...

Got me some new carbon today, courtesy of Yaxell and Rakuten. Nothin' real special, just a 165mm Aogami #2 santoku (I know), and a 240mm SK-5 yanagiba. The santoku has fairly minimal F&F, and a minor grind defect at the tip, but, it is super thin and has a nice distal taper. It was usably sharp...

I whipped up these 16" X 3" (the leather part) the other day for a grand total of $9, which is what the 48" X 4" oak board cost me at Home Despot. A friend of mine who does leather work gave me some blem leather for free, and I already owned a can of contact cement. Woo-hoo!

.....discovering that my sharpening skills are the weak link in the chain. I just got my set of core stones from Dave Martell (thanks for the lighting fast shipping, very pleasant surprise:)) and decided to try them out on a 8" Forgecraft that I'm re-working. I haven't had any problems...

I bought this stone at a yard sale (you'll see this as a common theme in my threads.:D ). It was dished and dark and $1. So I bought it and flattened it out on my belt sander. It showed a nice yellow stone that flattened pretty quickly on the sander. Does this look like a coticule to you guys...

Here are few of my knives. My favorite so far, a 270mm Hiromoto AS gyuto. My latest addition, a 255mm Yaxell Zen sujihiki. Great knife for the $$, and pretty darn good knife over all. My first and only bread knife. I can't believe I went so long without one, this thing is...

I'm not a professional reviewer by any means, so please bear with me. I have been bitten by the knife bug recently, and have greatly increased my collection in very short time. Last week, I was looking around, and I realized that I didn't have a sujihiki. So after a very short bit of looking...

I bought this 8 incher back in the late 90s, and it was my first real chef's knife. It was pretty beat up, bent tip, knicked edge. But I straightened it out and sharpened it and used it for ten years til I finally picked up a Shun 8" chef's knife at a gun show couple of years ago for $70. I...