Show your work! Uchigumori and co...

[nevin]

Doing some testing with my stones and a few from @Valgard.

All of these were reset on a 5kish synth prior to the stone to avoid any claims of multiple stone results.

Woooh!!! Really love the huge pictures showing the details!

 

[zetieum]

Stunning!!! Just a question: when you speak of damascus like pattern. the knife is damascus clad. isn't it?

 

[geoff_nocon]

Nope its not it was labelled as hon kasumi. The cladding is made of old chains from french warships during the meiji era so its kinda like wrought iron. When i first got it it wasnt as visible. Ill post old pics

 

[geoff_nocon]

Heres a pic when i first got it. It was only visible towards the heel


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[cenc]

Toyama 80mm paring. It has such a nice HT and takes a very bright polish.

I would like the jigane to be a bit darker but I don't want to go back to lower grits unless it's necessary later on.

To be honest, this knife dropped to the floor at work once. I was devastated when it happened but was pleasantly surprised that the tip had only slightly bent, and the heel very barely chipped; hardly noticeable. I was lucky it probably dropped at the right angle, but it still goes to show that Toyama knives are incredibly durable.

 

[valgard]

Bryan that looks really good!

 

[valgard]

 

[Badgertooth]

https://youtu.be/j3oxM8MuXVg

 

[zetieum]

https://youtu.be/j3oxM8MuXVg

f a n t a s t i c

 

[Doug]

https://youtu.be/j3oxM8MuXVg

Tennen Toishi Titilation

Beautiful stone and polish Otto

 

[nutmeg]

Wow!

 

[MarshallCS]

I have a question - on all of these beautiful examples, do you thin the wide bevels until there are no hi-low spots before you start to polish? I've tried to polish with fingerstones, and it shows where the high and low spots are on the blade road very much

 

[cenc]

It seems to me like your finger stones need to be thinner and almost flexible.

 

[Choppin]

https://youtu.be/j3oxM8MuXVg

Loved that

 

[YG420]

Awesome badger!

 

[geoff_nocon]

I have a question - on all of these beautiful examples, do you thin the wide bevels until there are no hi-low spots before you start to polish? I've tried to polish with fingerstones, and it shows where the high and low spots are on the blade road very much

Everything needs to be roughly in the same grit before you fingerstone. Either you flatten first or sndpaper so that everythings uniform. What i sometimes do if im feeling lazy i get a pretty hard fingerstone something that scratches and try to give everything a uniform scratch(doesnt have to be perfect)although you have to stay clear from the hagane it will ruin your mirror finish. then move on to a softer one. Its what i did on thos shig no sandpaper on this one. I broke off a piece from my old shapton 1k and made a fingerstone(highly suggest you dont do this cause if a piece breaks off it will leave a deep scratch) then i used a harder fingerstone( mine was around hs59 from a suita) to soften prev scratch then moved on to a softer fingerstone to coverup some off the scratches. I highly suggest you do the first 2 options this is just my lazy way to speed things up im just lazy at using sandpaper.



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[valgard]

https://youtu.be/j3oxM8MuXVg

:viking:

 

[cenc]

@geoff_nocon: Nice contrast on your shig!

Here is my 300m Toyama Sujihiki. It is my favorite Toyama knife so far. It has visible jigane folds when seen close up and performs perfectly for my needs.

 

[geoff_nocon]

gave this an ohira ao renge treatment(hagane) before going to its new home

 

[nutmeg]

this is a flashy one!

 

[Anton]

gave this an ohira ao renge treatment(hagane) before going to its new home

Steps?

 

[geoff_nocon]

Not really that hard it already had a nice base. Perfect for fingerstones. The challenge was removing the ridges around the kanji area. other than that was prety straight forward. for the hagane 8k synth-ohira aka renge suita-ao renge suita. Fingerstones for the rest.

 

[valgard]

Some more testing, three aizu. The are all very similar, extremely consistent and clean.
No 1 Pale blue with white dots


No 2 white with dark spots


diagonal scratch pattern

parallel to the edge


No 3 Monster Aizu with a mix of both patterns


Diagonal

Parallel

 

[geoff_nocon]

Another ohira ao renge. Im addicted to these black renges and light green base. its not as good looking as my first one but this one has a better/smoother feedback and better working space because of its width. And the finish on the hagane is mirror just how i like it.

 

[nutmeg]

yes Ao rocks! I guess their high hardness and relative coarse grain are a part of the magic.

 

[geoff_nocon]

yes Ao rocks! I guess their high hardness and relative coarse grain are a part of their magic.

That is true im part of the weird guys that prefer harder rocks than muddy

 

[nutmeg]

All my Ao were in the HS60-72 range.
I grabbed the Ao #3 HS45, quite excited to give it a try 😀

 

[geoff_nocon]

All my Ao were in the HS60-72 range.
I grabbed the Ao #3 HS45, quite excited to give it a try 😀

almost bought that one together with my Ao renge no 1. it had an interesting back story according to Sinichi he got it from a miner in Ohira. Unfortunately he passed away and when Sinichi visited the miners wife he saw the AO-AKA renge in a display box together with 2 more and asked to buy that particular one so it must be special. Sinichi said its more AKA than AO in terms of performance so decided to not buy it. But im kindda kicking myself now for not pulling the trigger specially with its Christmas sale discount. would love to hear from you once you get it and please post pictures

 

[nutmeg]

Last year I got a soft uchigumori with Aka and Ao renge (and Namazu) and the results are very good.
Next time I'll post pictures!