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I’ve seen a couple of times on Forged in Fire where the smith just heats and quenches the very edge of the blade rather than the whole blade. This obviously results in a differential hardening where the edge is now harder than the spine; sort of a faux honyaki I guess. I can understand why...

I see on the news that marijuana has now been legalised for recreational use in California, apparently the 6th US state to do so. The reporting was pretty matter of fact; not much colour or background info so I’m interested in people’s opinions. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? What do the...

So this is Christmas........

As the title suggests, I'm in the market for a honesuki. I've never owned or operated one before so I have no preconceptions as to what I want. Budget is negotiable but it won't get much use so I don't want to go overboard; let's say 300-400'ish. It will probably just be used on chickens...

It seems to me that the overwhelming majority of the population, worldwide apparently, pay little to no attention to their kitchen knives and sharpening thereof. Enthusiasts such as ourselves are the exception obviously but everyone else just seems to use any old piece of crap floating around in...

I'm not into J-nats and not planning to start so this question is just out of curiosity but I was gobsmacked recently when I was browsing on a vendor site and saw the price of J-nats. Some were in the thousands of dollars, the dearest one I saw was about 4000 AUD! I had no idea they were that...

Found this on a cooking blog. Guess who's been using a pull through sharpener.

So I've walked into the kitchen the other day and my wife is washing one of my knives (Tanaka B2 240 gyuto). Good for her, you say. Well yeah, except that she's washing it by way of way of holding it downwards at a 45° angle with the tip pressed firmly sideways into the bottom of the empty...

This post is inspired by the earlier post on creating the perfect burger, half a bottle of rum and a bit of sleep deprivation. I'm always amazed/impressed/embarrassed by the lengths to which Americans go to creating their burger patties compared to our efforts in Australia. It's an art form...

G'day all I've been lurking here for a while so it's probably time to come out of the closet and finally admit I have a problem. I stumbled across this site almost a year ago when I was looking to replace a set of Furi knives. Originally I was going to replace them with something else...