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Hi all ! The weight of the knife is a subject I understand so I wanted to give you some insight about it. Yes, it is 500 grams knife. The blade is maybe about 250/270 grams if I remember well, and handle is about the same due to damascus and stainless steel frame. Here is how I see this knife...

Hey, I have just made a french language live on my instagram about those questions, Here it is : It is in french but you can ask Youtube to create an English subtitle (it's working ok actually). About angles, don't be too focus about them, a kitchen knife is grinded very thin (3/6° maybe) and...

Coarse stones will never last. For people who use those stones for thinning/shaping bevels they are the stones you use the most for the longuest time so that's totally normal to wear a 150 grit Venev before a 1k by far

I like the imanishi 220 and if I had to go back using whetstones, instead of diamond stones, I would use this Imanishi 220 and would buy a bunch of Debado 180 for San mai. On Honyaki, I am not using diamond stones but I use Namikawa stones that I shaped convex recently. Namikawa got two lines...

I did not see you're a maker ! If the plan is to work your knives on stones and want solid stones to do that job effiently. My advise would be... buy Venev, but not only them. They are great, but again in some situations they wont be the right stones for the blade and having different stones and...

Sorry, I try not to say anything wrong in my videos but it's more feedback than pure solid informations that people should follow blindly. I got 80 + 150 and 240/400. The one I use the most is 150 indeed. But I do use 80 and others. But true is that very very coarse stones that are very hard and...

What you described is typically what happen with that sort of stone/plate, like Atoma. You have one layer of diamond fixed on the exterior of a metal plate. Once you have dull that layer, well it is finished, the plate is done, you can change it. A bit like a sandbelt, it is great at the...

Honestly, what you ask is difficult. Yes there is different options for very coarse diamond or not stones. But you can't ask magic from those stones. DMT stones are some of the coarsest stones you can find in my opinion : because the abrasive is not inside some bonding/material, but it is put...

Well there is a little difference but it's not like if you have the choice... I got 80/150 and 240/400. I use 150 a lot, feel more engagement than the 80. 240 works great too but not as fast as 150.

@EricEricEric Super cool blade ! Sorry I don't know the signature, who's the maker ?

I will to give it a second try but yeah, my experience was opposite, little too slow for the expected grit, little too soft for the precision and the feedback I want. But I will try again and may add some loose abrasive to boost it. The BBB looks good too and I would be please to try it, maybe...

Oh, another thing, It is actually interesting to think the concavities (in s, c , hook grinds) as uneveness. While the convex or flat grind would the eveness. But it is not really the same, even is how even is grind a geometry, this one can be flat, convex, s, c etc... Now, if you take a well...

@ian To complete what I was saying in the previous post. I was just talking about how evening a bevel can increase performance by reducing friction, more than by the fact the bevel is thinned in the process. For exemple, I believe a thicker knife, with good geometry and even bevels can cut...

My understanding about how a even and good shape, made with stones or other tools (but hard to beat stones for that work), can make a knife perform better is not really about thinning. I think it is more about friction : for creating two evenly shaped bevels, first you need to straighten the...

Yeah totally. But all people reading me need to remember I am interested in using those venev stones mostly for grinding/shaping/polishing wide bevels on san mai blades. I am changing the purpose of those stones in a way that were design indeed for sharpening high alloy steel knives

I may try it, but I just thought... well corindon is working fine and I got kilos of it. In France you can buy 1kg of 300 grit corindon for 7 euros...

From my experience, 80 grit, 100 grit, 150 grit and 240 grits are very hard bonding and barely move. I check them with rectified ruller. From 400 and above, it is not same resin (unfortunately), OCB one if I remember well and it is much softer and would react like other diamond stones (naniwa or...

Could you send me a link if you got one where to find that diamond powder ?

Hi all ! I have made a little live on Instagram yesterday about Venev stones and how to use some tricks to make them work faster. I have put the video on youtube too. Please try those tricks and share yours if you have found some way to boost those stones.

Interesting article ! But I found the concept of slicing edge retention little too evasive : if we agree that a saw will cut longer than a straight blade, maybe we could mention the difference of quality of the cut. For some application, I am not sure a clean cut is any interesting, but for...