Recent content by paranoid123

I'm spending a month working remotely in a house near the beaches of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina with a few friends. Of course we would bring our own knives because rental house supplied knives are always terrible. I have found that my friend's chef knife is in need of some work, and I might...

LOCATION I live in New York City, New York, USA. I am very aware of Mutual Trading Company and Korin, but I will probably order a knife from the internet. KNIFE TYPE What type of knife are you interested in (e.g., chefs knife, slicer, boning knife, utility knife, bread knife, paring knife...

I purchased this Tsukiji Masamoto Honesuki described to be SK carbon steel. It has this staining on the both faces of the blade. Looks like a water stain, but won't wash off with soap and water, I can't really take it off with a rust eraser. Is it oxidation or patina? What is the best way to...

After I got my first Japanese guyto knife some 15 years ago, I slowly built up a collection of various carbon steel, stainless steel; single bevel, double bevel; chefs knives, deba, and yanagiba. I've added more and more tools to sharpening these knives. But my workhorse stone has always been...

When I visited Japan (Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, and a few other cities) this site was a very good guide for me to find where the stores were clustered around in each city. http://yayasyumyums.blogspot.com/2011/08/knife-shops-in-japan-tokyo-kyoto-osaka.html

I just saw this on the Korin newsletter. "Sharpening and Repair Seminar with Master Knife Sharpener Mr. Ajioka, from Suisin" on Sat Jan, 6th. http://www.korin.com/events/2018-Ajioka-san-sharpening-seminar

I watch a lot of Japanese eel filleting video - I'm not sure I could do a live one myself, I have a lot of trouble dispatching live shrimp. Anyway, I came across a Japanese video, possibly a recording of a TV show which we in the US get on Netflix called "Japanese Style Originator" on cutting...

On my recent trip to Japan, I relied on this blog entry to find stores in Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto http://yayasyumyums.blogspot.com/2011/08/knife-shops-in-japan-tokyo-kyoto-osaka.html

All the knives displayed is newly available knives? Or are you talking about the ones that did not have a price on them?

I posed this question on the "Echizen Uchihamono at Kajitsu in Manhattan" thread on the "Get Together" forum, but this is the appropriate forum for this. I went went to a knife exhibit and saw a few knifes that were described as a yangiba, but looked more like a takobiki because of the blunt...

I went yesterday as well. I probably missed you by an hour @alterwisser. I agree, it was hard to gauge who the target audience was for. As a home cook, I felt a bit out of place. It looked like some of the gyutos, santukos, and pettys were for sale in the $250-$400 range. I took some...

I work pretty close by so I will be coming by!

Perhaps I should reword the question a little bit. If you were given 2 - 3 knives and asked to choose one. The prices, the type of knife, the steel, the size are all the same. The brand/maker is hidden or not known. The feel in your hand is *relatively* the same. You're in a store, so you...

Hi, I know this is a strangely worded question. But let me start by letting you know my background. I'm just a home cook, and I like Japanese knives if only in a geeky way. I started out with a Globals years ago, then got a Tojiro DP gyuto, then a Masamoto gyuto. We have various other...