OK so I bought myself a little project.
Im in the process of selling my other two debas, and so I needed something I could use in the mean time when Im deciding what Im going to get in their place.
The original plan was to hit Shigefusa but its kind of expensive for a knife that supposed to chip and cut bones and generally have hard life.
This one is "Special made by Yukimitsu" - I thank Kevin [CuttySharp] for encoding this one for me. I couldnt find any info about the maker, only something about the original guy lived something like 1000 years ago.
So of we go this is the blade when it came
And so I took it to my grinder, cleaned the choil and spine, rounded it a bit, and ground new bevel roughly.
The shinogi for now is not the straightest line on earth but Im going to fix that by hand with my diamond.
On the from side and back side, because they are concave, i only grind by hand with a 40 grit sanding paper on a piece of wood. My goal there is to remove all those wheel marks and have nice paralell scratch pattern.
And so from this point on theres no more machine involved into the process.
The whole grinding and polishing is done by hand and carefully.
Now the back side is little in mess, but I wouldnt expect anything else really. It takes time but its possible to make it look prettier with patient sanding.
The front is finished and I will not polish it further, at the end of the day its working knife not a showpiece. The sharpness of the steel doesnt get any far from any other carbon. Lucky me.
to be continued
Im in the process of selling my other two debas, and so I needed something I could use in the mean time when Im deciding what Im going to get in their place.
The original plan was to hit Shigefusa but its kind of expensive for a knife that supposed to chip and cut bones and generally have hard life.
This one is "Special made by Yukimitsu" - I thank Kevin [CuttySharp] for encoding this one for me. I couldnt find any info about the maker, only something about the original guy lived something like 1000 years ago.
So of we go this is the blade when it came
And so I took it to my grinder, cleaned the choil and spine, rounded it a bit, and ground new bevel roughly.
The shinogi for now is not the straightest line on earth but Im going to fix that by hand with my diamond.
On the from side and back side, because they are concave, i only grind by hand with a 40 grit sanding paper on a piece of wood. My goal there is to remove all those wheel marks and have nice paralell scratch pattern.
And so from this point on theres no more machine involved into the process.
The whole grinding and polishing is done by hand and carefully.
Now the back side is little in mess, but I wouldnt expect anything else really. It takes time but its possible to make it look prettier with patient sanding.
The front is finished and I will not polish it further, at the end of the day its working knife not a showpiece. The sharpness of the steel doesnt get any far from any other carbon. Lucky me.
to be continued