mkriggen
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I know this is nothing new to the forum veterans, but I just wanted to share my first real experience with Jon at JKI.
I currently do my sharpening with an Edge Pro. While I'm very happy with the edge I'm able to get on my knives with it, it is vertualy useless for thinning. Sense I'm new at the whole sharpening thing, and therefore tend to remove slightly more metal then necessary, this has become an issue. To solve this problem, after extinsive personal research, I ordered a couple of stones from Jon this last Friday. Saturday morning I PM'd Jon asking for his thoughts about a future followup stone. I didn't ask what he thought about the two I ordered because I knew I had picked the right ones. Jon's first response came about two minutes later. Skipping ahead, after more then a dozen PM's back and forth, it ended like this...
If you haven't yet had the opportunity to work with Jon, I highly recommend the experience:doublethumbsup::doublethumbsup:
I currently do my sharpening with an Edge Pro. While I'm very happy with the edge I'm able to get on my knives with it, it is vertualy useless for thinning. Sense I'm new at the whole sharpening thing, and therefore tend to remove slightly more metal then necessary, this has become an issue. To solve this problem, after extinsive personal research, I ordered a couple of stones from Jon this last Friday. Saturday morning I PM'd Jon asking for his thoughts about a future followup stone. I didn't ask what he thought about the two I ordered because I knew I had picked the right ones. Jon's first response came about two minutes later. Skipping ahead, after more then a dozen PM's back and forth, it ended like this...
mkriggen said:LOL, I didn't want to bother the forum members with another "what should I buy" post, but I guess I should have followed the most common advice before ordering..."talk to Jon, he'll hook you up":slaphead:
Ok, drop the binsui and replace with the Gesshin 1200. The monzento looks fun but it's a little beyond what I want to spend on this purpose (maybe when I get that cool new job...sigh).
I really appreciate the time you've spent with me on this. Next knife will probably be a 180 or 210 wa-petty and I've been trying to decide between the Konasuke HD and the Gesshin Ginga. I think, scratch that, I know, what my choice is now:doublethumbsup:
Mahalo,
Mikey
If you haven't yet had the opportunity to work with Jon, I highly recommend the experience:doublethumbsup::doublethumbsup: