Recent content by DanielC

Stone ready gives a knife a fighting chance to be further maintained properly. Most of us don't charge near enough to cover the time it takes or for the years spent making mistakes and learning. Most of us are also 1 person shops with far less volume. Any finish applied outside of a machine is...

That's funny, because most western makers that specialize in wide bevels almost always prepare them better than most shops out of Japan.

Shobu Iromono in particular hits a certain balance between fineness, muddiness, feedback, and ease of use. You can get some really good, fairly easy results with them in general. They used to be my go to finisher years ago for polishing until I moved on to harder, finer stones.

I doubt it will actually sell.

Nice stone!!

Like, I can still see some in these photos. It gets tedious 😄

I don't find that finer stones cloud up wrought at all. If the bevel is prepared prestinely or close to, fine stones bring out every detail with clarity. Scratches for that matter to. If I'm getting a good burnish on the bevel with a fine stone suited for knives, there shouldn't be any scratches...

Found some areas that need work after reviewing video, lol. 9 fold oroshigane over western W-2.

That is rad!!!

Takeda used to operate a table at Bladeshow. I've met him several times there. Bought a stone once too. (Though that last time was in 2018. He no longer attends). It was always nice having a table or booth ID because we were able to pick and choose from the wood vendors before the public. The...

Kiita. All kiita.

Sharpening Juices. NSFW.

So true! 😆

Milan also does fantastic workhorses.

I skipped having a table last year. I make decent sakes and there's always a chance of a purveyor walking by and snatching up everything on your table, but wow it was just going to be too costly for me that time and working on Wootz doesn't afford me much time to bring enough pieces to...