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Kiritsuke shape is with its lowered point very close to santoku. The point is more assertive and precise. Kiritsuke comes from washoku and its bastard knife of head chef. Means after you have mastered 3 main knives you can do many tasks just with one. If we talkin single bevels. Double bevel...

Btw just crossed my mind having two 220 stones makes it having 4 surfaces to even. So rather having 3 stone evening i have 4. That's why it sounded odd. I have them even because 4 surfaces of two stones evening in sequences. I have them flat as emotions of a robot. ;)

seems like aoto is that stone which if right, might become the only one... i cannot believe how much choice of finnish in one rock.

from left top to bottom: naniwa220(2x), al1000, ikarashi, kouzaki aoto, maruoyama shirosuita, nagura, ohira uchigumori from left: Pavel Bolf custom 19191 steel quenched without clay Kiritsuke Gyuto 220mm, Watanabe custom shirogami Kiritsuke Usuba 210mm (from machi)

Why they vould be conwex afterwards. Afterwards they are true as my conscious. And I give them round after every session of using them. I dont like to push my stones to a visibly changed state. I got them for two years and they hold tight. Not much material removed max 1-3% few mm. I have this...

pink naniwa Traditional series T-901. I doesnt wear much at all.

Badger what about ikarashi-- aoto-- shirosuita?

I use naniwa 220. I have two of them so I even them one on each other. Never used diamond plate. I use it to flatten all other stones. I find it hard with no particles poisoning to other stones. I jump from it right to AI1000. I tend to think these days its too big of a jump.

Guys you dont consider that crack a problem dont you? I was trying to find a possible problem, but other than stone splitting which I stopped by laquer I have not found. Also are nicely shaped stones more valuable? I somehow dont see point now to cut it or shape it. It works so I guess Its my...

I bought this raw ore and flatened one side from Watanabe. He claims its from Kouzaki. It has a crack on the side I flatened (I didnt notice any misbehavior of that crack on my edge ). I laquered other sides heavily to keep it compact. Still not decided how to cut it and even if. Its not...

Hello friends. My name is Peter. Im chef and geek from Slovakia. I love science, nature, knives(I mostly had Watanabes) and gadgets. I cook already 12 yrs and Im an co-owner of a successful operation in Bratislava. My Hero chef Is Fergus Henderson from Saint John Hotel in London. Below is my...