I love my little version of that guy. One of my favorite all time knife stones.
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I love my little version of that guy. One of my favorite all time knife stones.
Idk how you do it. Very nice
Relatives knives too dull to bother with? Check. Cutco? Double check.
Pocket coti to the rescue.
Pocket coti to the rescue.
what Itinomonn is that? love those knives
How’s the feedback? According to Keats we should expect more tactile than auditory, in his classic encouragement to sharpeners everywhere
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on
</joke>
Feels hard and dense like a translucent or Black Arkansas. However it doesn't feel glassy at all. The surface has a little bit of grip that grabs metal and raises swarf quick. More like a Shapton Glass 8k. This makes it a phenomenal touch up stone and/or final deburring stone. Able to put a very keen fresh microbevel without raising a new burr or polishing away your toothiness.
Leveling the bevels of my new Okubo 170mm nakiri with a Shapton Pro 220; a couple of low spots on the starboard side but nothing too bad, a few hammer taps assisted.
looking good! what kind of hammer do you use? brass, carbide tip, regular one?
Leveling the bevels of my new Okubo 170mm nakiri with a Shapton Pro 220; a couple of low spots on the starboard side but nothing too bad, a few hammer taps assisted.
Probably the wrong one; just a 16 oz smooth face hammer. Trying to move as little metal as possible; gently.
I just realized you can help low spots with a hammer….
You don’t want to make a new low spot on the other side, though.
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Took my sharpening mule to the Aizu today. Cheers to unexpected banding!
Don’t mind the stray patina, a strawberry was sacrificed to science.
Don’t mind the stray patina, a strawberry was sacrificed to science.
Pocket coti AND Okubo?? The algorithm is really getting dialed in for me
On that note...when the drill rig breaks down and you're waiting on subs to fix it: pocket coti(s)!
Well this looks unnatural..
I’m not gonna complain about that contrast though. NP3k with clean water working on the core. Can confirm that my off hand polishing is pretty iffy.
I’m not gonna complain about that contrast though. NP3k with clean water working on the core. Can confirm that my off hand polishing is pretty iffy.
After a bit of thinning this little Pallares Solsona parer started giving me teency Kamon vibes 
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Testing out the edges off of Roszutec and a translucent ark. Both very hard stones with fairly high polish.
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Testing out the edges off of Roszutec and a translucent ark. Both very hard stones with fairly high polish.
The refreshed edge off the translucent ark feels particularly aggressive on this Takeda AS. It even yielded a thin band of rough kasumi with some coticule slurry.
I noticed what appears to be a lamination line in the cladding of this Manaka cleaver. Perhaps two sheets forge welded? Or just impurities in the steel?
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Well it’s not flawless but this is the closest I’ve come to cleanly slicing paper towel, and the irony is that it’s with my cheapest stone!
I picked up a big slab of what I thought was a Llyn Idwal a few months ago on the bay, before @cotedupy identified it as being more likely than not a Charnley Forest.
It’s hard as hell and is proving to be a pain in the balls to lap the various gouges and pockmarks, but produces a feisty edge very quickly with some slurry.
I picked up a big slab of what I thought was a Llyn Idwal a few months ago on the bay, before @cotedupy identified it as being more likely than not a Charnley Forest.
It’s hard as hell and is proving to be a pain in the balls to lap the various gouges and pockmarks, but produces a feisty edge very quickly with some slurry.
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And here’s the stone itself!
It’s usually a deeper, more consistent green, but looks lighter from the coarse grit lapping.
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It’s usually a deeper, more consistent green, but looks lighter from the coarse grit lapping.
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Is that this stone you showed me at BF the other day @OkayMode …?
Cos that one’s a Nantlle Valley Stone, ie extremely hard Welsh slate.
I wouldn’t be able to get a good paper towel cut off a NV Stone, even with heavy slurry the edges are too refined. And refined edges don’t continue to make the cut, you need more ‘tooth’ for paper towel.
Speaking of which… I took delivery today of a stone I’d completely forgotten I put a little speculative bid on, but am really quite pleased I did. This is an old Pike No.1, sold in the UK by AB Salmen as the ‘Snow Mountain Washita’.
And this one is rather good. It has quite a high SG @2.35, though it acts a fair bit lower than that, and has a difficult-to-describe but quite pleasant ‘sandy’ feedback that a lot of my favourite Washitas do.
And proved more than a match for old Sabatier stainless when I gave it trial run earlier this evening, on what has rapidly become my most used kitchen knife.
Cos that one’s a Nantlle Valley Stone, ie extremely hard Welsh slate.
I wouldn’t be able to get a good paper towel cut off a NV Stone, even with heavy slurry the edges are too refined. And refined edges don’t continue to make the cut, you need more ‘tooth’ for paper towel.
Speaking of which… I took delivery today of a stone I’d completely forgotten I put a little speculative bid on, but am really quite pleased I did. This is an old Pike No.1, sold in the UK by AB Salmen as the ‘Snow Mountain Washita’.
And this one is rather good. It has quite a high SG @2.35, though it acts a fair bit lower than that, and has a difficult-to-describe but quite pleasant ‘sandy’ feedback that a lot of my favourite Washitas do.
And proved more than a match for old Sabatier stainless when I gave it trial run earlier this evening, on what has rapidly become my most used kitchen knife.
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Oops, at least my sharpening is getting better than my memory recall (not much of an impressive feat)
Boredom led me to have a play with it during some down time today, and I ended up cooking dinner with a Maz that I touched up using the stone.
Out of all the natural ‘edge’ stones I’ve picked up so far (Washita, Aizu, dark Turkey oilstone, BBW and a coti) it was up there with the dark Turkey oilstone as the finest, but it was also surprisingly bitey through tomatoes at the same time whereas I’m not sure the Turkey is that useable for kitchen knives.
Not sure I would use it as a regular finisher for edges, but it certainly seems to add a flourish if I have the time and feel like adding a bit of luxury at the end of a progression.
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Work kit for new opening tomorrow, sharpened with a coti from @cotedupy - my best edge stone by far
Come think of it, this is a pretty crazy kkf collab! Rehandle on the gyuto by @KasumiJLA with wood from @jedy617. And another knife sold to me by @mockit who kindly remembered I was looking. Four generous members coming together in one mini-kit
Come think of it, this is a pretty crazy kkf collab! Rehandle on the gyuto by @KasumiJLA with wood from @jedy617. And another knife sold to me by @mockit who kindly remembered I was looking. Four generous members coming together in one mini-kit
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Thank you! I'm really interested in one of these for the TF I have
High praise indeed! Though please don't make me regret selling that stone any more than I already do.
Unfortunately so, prices have risen steeply in the last few years.
Currently; gram for gram, the best cotis (like EdT's above) probably cost at least as much as the most expensive jnats.
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It's too bad. I wonder how good my edge would be with one of them.High praise indeed! Though please don't make me regret selling that stone any more than I already do.
Unfortunately so, prices have risen steeply in the last few years.
Currently; gram for gram, the best cotis (like EdT's above) cost at least as much as the most expensive jnats.
One day, long from now, I'm gonna be cutting paper towels as well as you my friend haha. Still have a lot of learning before that happens though
Visited an old friend who went to Osaka recently and picked this up from https://www.towerknives.com/
