Mr Kooby Shemayrew

I was turned onto The Story of Knife Steel by Larrin Thomas read it in two days. Had read about Magnacut on this forum the passaround &...

Diamond will cut but personally I don’t think there is a MASSIVE difference between the brands. Magnacut is going to be slow on...

FWIW - I teach the sharpening classes at Blenheim Forge. You'd come away from one knowing how to sharpen. (Fingers crossed! ;))

You may have seen this before but if not I thought you might like it.

Wow, that's some thick boi magnacut billet! I usually see thm about 4mm max, and that's like 20mm thick!

AEBL is badass. It doesn’t get a carbon-like toothy edge and edge retention is OK but not great. It does strop better than any other...

Thanks! That's interesting, it is indeed much more effort to do modern PM steels. Muneishi sounds good too, I will probably get some of...

This blacksmith is a westerner who comes from a blacksmith family. He is more familiar with western steels than Japanese. For him this...

They do take a very fine edge and the razor would be fun! By local do you mean smiths in Japan? Would love to see their take on the steel

What you mention here is exactly what we (me and a local blacksmith) noted with this magnacut knife. This was his first try with...

I will be honest I find not just MagnaCut but most PM steel hard to reach that carbon biteness for me, but they can take a fine edge

No issues with magnacut on synth stones. It is just very slow. Not only does it take a very fine edge, it seems to want to take a very...

Indeed, these are all mikawa naguras freshly mined out without cutting. Lots of stones especially from the early year of second hand...

Am I missing something here?* Surely Mikawa nagura are just a type of stone, regardless of whether they have Asano stamps or not? I...

Personally from my opinion, overrated af. From my experience with these, it is very hard to find one with the right price for it and...