New gyutos

[Uncle Danny]

Sorry, didn’t know what to call the thread and I’m being really greedy with pictures for now

It’s 3 (4 but I’m keeping one) wrought iron and 26C3 gyutos in the ballpark of
245x58x8 mm. A bit nose heavy, real work horse cutters.
Choil shots to come.

It’s a co-lab between a black smith and me as a polisher.
This is our third attempt and have so far gone well.

A picture for now and more to come of the polishing process.

I know it’s not much to go on, but as pictures roll in, please feel free to subject me to your critique

 

[Blumbo]

Excited to see the wrought iron pop!

 

[NickMinton]

This is awesome! Great work gang

 

[Uncle Danny]

Thanks, mate.
Let’s see how this pans out and if my polishing skills are satisfactory to the crowd here

 

[Uncle Danny]

A bit work in progress

 

[crocca86]

Looking good mate

 

[OkayMode]

This is my preferred profile - lots of height carried down the blade with a reasonably dropped tip.

The KU/nashiji looks really nice too.

If you want volunteers to road test anything for a bit… You know where to find me

 

[miggus]

Oh, an EU passaround would be awesome. For this, I volunteer as well

These are looking great.

 

[enrico]

I really like that bevel

 

[Uncle Danny]

Thanks y’all!
First knife is almost done and second one is coming along nicely

The stone progression used is
Namikawa Kongo, Asahi, Binsui-do
Then, Aizu, hard Ikarashi and Uchigumori + fingerstones.

The video is Kongo chasing low spots

 

[brimmergj]

Looking great!

 

[Uncle Danny]

Thank you

 

[MrHiggins]

What a fun project! The knives look great.

I've been daydreaming about doing something just like this (i.e., find a blacksmith to do the laminating and rough shaping and then take over for the sharpening and handle work). Did you just reach out to a local blacksmith and ask?

 

[tostadas]

These look great. I really like the specs, and the polish is coming along nicely.

 

[Uncle Danny]

What a fun project! The knives look great.

I've been daydreaming about doing something just like this (i.e., find a blacksmith to do the laminating and rough shaping and then take over for the sharpening and handle work). Did you just reach out to a local blacksmith and ask?

I was hosting a Japanese knife flee market and was just talking to someone about delaminated spines, when he asked me afterwards if I wanted to know more. I said “yes”
And one thing led to the other, and suddenly I was helping him making knives.
I just wanted to polish the damn thing, and when he saw the finished result of our first knife, we’ll the rest is history and now we are doing this

 

[Uncle Danny]

These look great. I really like the specs, and the polish is coming along nicely.

Thank you! Yes, it’s totally my comfort zone knife specs

 

[Uncle Danny]

Working on those knives. 1 finished, one is on its way.

 

[Uncle Danny]

So… I’ve finished up a couple of these bad boys.
The lesson with these knives and naturals, as always is. That different knives calls for different stones.

Tried to finish these on Uchigumori and Nakayama, didn’t turn out the way I wanted it to.
Had to bring these down a notch to my very good Ikarashi. It doesn’t go completely scratch free (or smaller scratches than other finer awasedo. Well Ikarashi is not awasedo, you know…) finished this one with some finger stones I got from @Jurrian and that did help me quite a bit.

These are not picture perfect knives. But they are done by hand, from laminating to last stone. Bad ass work horses flirting with the 350 gram.

There’s still a couple of knives left, before this batch is done.

Hope you enjoy and as always, thanks for reading and please don’t hold back on questions or critique if you find it necessary

 

[Uncle Danny]

Videos

 

[Uncle Danny]

 

[Jurrian]

Well done buddy!

 

[Blumbo]

So… I’ve finished up a couple of these bad boys.
The lesson with these knives and naturals, as always is. That different knives calls for different stones.

Tried to finish these on Uchigumori and Nakayama, didn’t turn out the way I wanted it to.
Had to bring these down a notch to my very good Ikarashi. It doesn’t go completely scratch free (or smaller scratches than other finer awasedo. Well Ikarashi is not awasedo, you know…) finished this one with some finger stones I got from @Jurrian and that did help me quite a bit.

These are not picture perfect knives. But they are done by hand, from laminating to last stone. Bad ass work horses flirting with the 350 gram.

There’s still a couple of knives left, before this batch is done.

Hope you enjoy and as always, thanks for reading and please don’t hold back on questions or critique if you find it necessary

Out of curiosity what happened when you try to finish on the finer natural stones?

 

[Uncle Danny]

Well done buddy!

Thanks mate

 

[Uncle Danny]

Out of curiosity what happened when you try to finish on the finer natural stones?

It just went more hazy, erasing the details in the wrought.
Sometimes my Ikarashi turns out scratches other times it doesn’t. But this time, I had to use fingerstones

 

[Uncle Danny]

Not exactly gyutos this time, but Santoku and a petty are in the making.

Still wrought and 26C3

 

[Uncle Danny]

So, back on the stones today.

First pictures is hard Kongo-do #180

Has an annoying low spot, but got in the end
But hard to see in pictures.

Next up Binsui-do #400 ish

That’s it for today.

 

[Uncle Danny]

So this is about to be finished

It’s unforgiving light, but at least it’s honest
The Ikarashi leaves the nicest effect on the wrought, but is not completely scratch free

 

[Uncle Danny]

Specs are 240x59x9 mm. and 360 gram - It’s safe to call it a work horse

 

[Uncle Danny]

This is petty work

 

[simona]

These look really nice - are they for a friend or private sale or a shop or....