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The ref to toothiness and ref to heat treat doesn’t seem to be including the variable that some people will be forging and some will be stock removing. Forged will need normalising and grain refinement prior to the hardening cycle - would be interesting to see if there was a pattern in people’s...

Currently portioning vaccing and freezing some dry aged ex dairy beef mince. Isn’t always easy to get hold of, so bought 10kg and that’ll keep me happy for a while.

Rehandle and saya for a Tanaka Yoshikazu Saya in Hawaiian Silky oak, which was really nice to work and has a lot of 3d figure, handle was desert ironwood which I always struggle to get good pics of as in person it has a deep shine to it.

Wipe as you go- I’m not giving it the full clean but wipe with something wet then something dry. Takes no time. Most of my carbons have patina though and I’m fine with it. Shig is the only exception as that cladding is reactive af so that gets hot water thorough dry and oil after use

Start eating bacon regularly and it’ll take care of itself.

You typically want 1hp per inch as a minimum if you want to do any serious grinding- with 3/4 Hp this will we a bit underpowered so light pressure or lower contact area needed to avoid slowing it down. I’m surprised it’s not got a vfd on it. It says the motor is single phase though in which...

Looks like you’ve put the sides of the knife on the stone rather than the bevels? What are you looking to achieve? To thin you work the bevels looking to move the shoulder higher. With your approach the thickness behind the edge will stay the same

Open the door while driving and scrape it on the road

PMV is supposedly cpm154 with a rebrand

Would be interesting to see the same steel heat treated three different ways- as what gets attributed to being intrinsic qualities of the alloy might not be. Not just different HRC from tempering temp, but changing the process with anneals, number of quenches, quenchant used, cryo etc

52100 can vary quite a bit depending on the heat treat approach - would be interesting to know how the sample was HTd

Anyone smoked venison before? Thinking a low and slow shoulder

Planning the Christmas get together, 10 friends, and thinking what food to have. In previous years have done classic roast beef, slow cooked lamb, Game stew, this year the thinking is more buffet style than sit down meal - mostly as I did a Mexican night and tacos are just the best. So what to...

Back in Cardiff now, and relieved to not have to pick my bag up again. Think I’d be more selective on what I bring next time. Cheers to everyone who brought knives, stones and chat. Was awesome seeing a lot of pieces from the newer makers that I’ve only seen pics of. Some really nice stuff...

I tried an Alex Pole pan and then quickly bought all the other sizes. Trick to no sticking is preheating the pan enough. They work great, are handmade, pretty reasonable, and work great. Otherwise Minerale B, solid and reliable but don’t have the same charm and with a choice I prefer the Alex...

I like straight and rigid https://www.nisbets.co.uk/victorinox-wooden-handled-peeler/c719? Simple, and has the point to gouge out anything

Here’s the link https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jqy9KHgX7aT8fQcs6ScbZC

Stones will be some uk nats, jnats, and random Plus some diamond stones and some compounds

Right, time to pack, will aim to arrive as close to 13.00 as I can. If anyone wants to PM mobile numbers might be easier to meet up / get directions etc Happy to set up WhatsApp group

Can bring some naturals Hoping March doesn’t mean more stop and search as explaining a bag full of knives might be fun :D