Recent content by echerub

Damn! Rrr... I mean, congrats! :D

There's a long history between the founder of C**G and the founders of KKF. KKF and the C**G forum are both the result of a split from a previous common community. As for me, Mazaki and Matsubara are both new to me! 😄

Sorry, still haven't gone through the stones yet. But here's what's currently available in terms of knives!

Updated list of what's currently available ...

Just a heads-up for folks... I will have some jnats for sale probably late next week. I have to do an inventory of what I've got here first, and probably won't get to it until early next week. So, if you're getting some knives from this sale *and* think you might pick up a stone or two, let me...

Y'never know what might happen between now and senility :) Okay, on to the PM's!

Batch 2 of the photos now posted as well!

Oh, and I'm out as a chauffeur right now and have an evening class to teach later. That just makes me even slower. But I'll get on the PM's tonight! I promise!

I sometimes purchased with "just in case" in mind :) Folks, I'm gonna start tackling the PM's later tonight - I'm putting priority on the photos first. Rest assured that I will take things in chronological order. Please excuse my temporary silence on the PM's - they are coming through a-ok...

Whew. Hey folks. Lots to catch up on, so give me a bit of time to reply to everyone :) I've posted the first batch of photos. More to come yet. This is all the double-beveled ones, I think... except for the Nobuyasu nakiri that I remembered *after* I uploaded this batch. The next batch of...

Descriptive Notes: Chuka - Ashi hamano 220 swedish stainless - this is an actual Gesshin Ginga, so it's at the JKI quality standard. I just tracked it as Ashi Hamano because that's the maker behind it. Chuka - Devin Thomas 220 ITK - this is a rare, probably 1-of-a-kind chuka. Devin only...

Hi folks! I haven't been here for some time, principally because I had to stay away in order to stop buying any more knives and stones! So some of you don't know me here and don't remember the last time I had a big sale. On the other hand, some of you I know remember the previous big sale :)...

Prices on things have gone up even in their original currencies. Partly due to demand having gone up, partly due to material costs having gone up - I was told that was one of the big considerations behind Takeda switching to stainless classing, for example - and then yeah in the past half-year...

Kochi photos later tonight (hopefully tonight, if not then tmrw) and same for the yanagi photos also requested via PM :)

Whether we're talking USD$200 or CAD$200, there can still be some good knives less than that if we're talking gyutos. The pickings are pretty slim in CAD, of course. But USD$200? There are some good choices. Not "perfect" ones, but they'll perform well. If we're talking something like...