Cutty Sharp
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I believe I've read in more than one place where people have bought a nice new knife and then soon discovered somehow they'd chipped the heel, even after doing nothing. I'm wondering if this is some strange phenomenon? Mystery chips, and it's now happened to me!
Last week I picked up a very handsome 150mm Aritsugu oroshi deba in Japan, and then carefully transported it home. White steel, wonderful f&f after I'd see many similar ones there. Dmn sharp too, and no work req'd.... Well, got it home and haven't even used it and next thing I notice a sizeable 1x2mm chip on the edge right at the heel. Can't imagine what'd happened.
Images here if you want to see. Sorry - no camera, and these are poor quality scans, but you can get the idea:
http://s1059.photobucket.com/albums/t435/CuttySharp1/
Luckily it's a deba, and so won't be my primary knife; won't be rock-cutting vegs with it, for example. Maybe I can live with it. Yes, it bothers me, but not sure if it need to go through a big sharpening routine to fix it right now.
Last week I picked up a very handsome 150mm Aritsugu oroshi deba in Japan, and then carefully transported it home. White steel, wonderful f&f after I'd see many similar ones there. Dmn sharp too, and no work req'd.... Well, got it home and haven't even used it and next thing I notice a sizeable 1x2mm chip on the edge right at the heel. Can't imagine what'd happened.
Images here if you want to see. Sorry - no camera, and these are poor quality scans, but you can get the idea:
http://s1059.photobucket.com/albums/t435/CuttySharp1/
Luckily it's a deba, and so won't be my primary knife; won't be rock-cutting vegs with it, for example. Maybe I can live with it. Yes, it bothers me, but not sure if it need to go through a big sharpening routine to fix it right now.