So after seeing the Takeda in the for sale section a while ago and watching it whilst i tried to justify a reason to buy it, Christmas crept up and gave me the excuse i needed.
It arrived this morning and for the last hour i've been playing around with it. Upon opening it i was confused as i was expecting a thin knife that looking at the spine it was a good 4mm at the heel. I then looked down the blade and saw the crazy thin cross section and was reassured that this was going to behave like a thin knife.
The bevel was in great shape (thanks timthebeaver
), always a slight worry buying a used knife as i've had some shockers, but i couldn't resist taking it to the stones and making it shine.
Honing the wide bevel was again different to what i expected. I just felt too low to the stone, but i was hitting evenly all the way along and it just needed a quick 1k 6k progression to bring it up to an almost mirror finish. Slightly worried about an edge this shallow but i'll see how it holds before putting a microbevel on it.
It's so much fun to use, like a kind of gyuto cleaver hybrid that wants to cut stuff. Feel a bit like i'm late to the party as nearly everybody seems to have one or have used one already but it's such a nice knife to use i wish i had given in to temptation sooner.
Time to go to the shops and buy some veggies for tea, need something to go with the huge pile of diced potatoes and onions - thinking it'll be soup so i have an excuse to use it some more
pics:
It arrived this morning and for the last hour i've been playing around with it. Upon opening it i was confused as i was expecting a thin knife that looking at the spine it was a good 4mm at the heel. I then looked down the blade and saw the crazy thin cross section and was reassured that this was going to behave like a thin knife.
The bevel was in great shape (thanks timthebeaver
), always a slight worry buying a used knife as i've had some shockers, but i couldn't resist taking it to the stones and making it shine.Honing the wide bevel was again different to what i expected. I just felt too low to the stone, but i was hitting evenly all the way along and it just needed a quick 1k 6k progression to bring it up to an almost mirror finish. Slightly worried about an edge this shallow but i'll see how it holds before putting a microbevel on it.
It's so much fun to use, like a kind of gyuto cleaver hybrid that wants to cut stuff. Feel a bit like i'm late to the party as nearly everybody seems to have one or have used one already but it's such a nice knife to use i wish i had given in to temptation sooner.
Time to go to the shops and buy some veggies for tea, need something to go with the huge pile of diced potatoes and onions - thinking it'll be soup so i have an excuse to use it some more
pics:
