Recent content by RolfK

:eek: Sorry haha should have said Schwarzenegger 🤗

Heidi, Wiener schnitzel & apfelstrudel, big knives - all good things come from Austria 😀

It’s a beauty! Hope you like it 👍

Just received a (dirty) Catcheside and polished it on a fine nakayama from Nutmeg

I'm very happy with my Watanabe 180mm nakiri. watanabe blades Perfect size and great aogami steel, heat treatment, grind etc. One of the best cutters I own. It has a KU finish, never had any problems with rust. Just a bit of nice blue patina at the cutting edge. Toyama has about the same one...

Here’s my pick. First I’ll take a beast, a Toyama 270mm gyuto or Mizuno 230mm cleaver. You all know Toyama, so I take Mizuno. It’s kind of a fusion East meets West blade. Produced in Japan, then I got inspired by a tuning project from Mario Ingoglia from the USA and then let the custom job do by...

True! Maybe this can help in your thougts. I wouldn't be that focused on the type of steel. An important choice is if you want stainless or not. After that, the maker and his forging, heat treatment, profile, grind, sharpening are more important for the performance of the knife. And like others...

So, my knife returned from Jürgen, and I’m very happy with the results! The cutting performance is much better now. With a thin edge (for a cleaver) and a distal taper from about 4mm heel to a 1mm tip. The new finger guard gives the freedom of moving my grip more forward. So you get more balance...

From his Insta account I can find this:

Forgot to say - just saw you live in Germany. If you don’t know it already, I would check out the kochmalscharf.de website for local experts. There are quite some (hobby) knife makers. Maybe they can help you out. Don’t have to speak English over there 😀 Grusse und wiedersehen Rolf

Yes I just got feedback from Jürgen: he will do the job. First add the finger rest and do some thinning. Maybe after that, he can improve the distal taper, but that's a more complex and bigger job for a cleaver. Sharpening will be no problem for him I guess, that's part of the daily job. But...

For some reason my parcels from Japan also aren't noticed by customs (until now..). And they arrive very fast - like two days. It's strange, but I'm happy.

Same here in the Netherlands. I usually calculate about +30% of the price when importing outside the EU (VAT tax+ imports tax). So it's not many times worth buying things far away... To prevent these taxes we have to lower the value to about €20. That's a risk with this kind of low insurance...

Thanks man, that might be good, I will try it. Nice blade btw, your hiromoto honyaki 😀 Cheers Rolf