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When you're breaking in a knife that's never been thinned, trying to remove all grind marks, and the edge is turning into aluminum foil and peeling away, when do you reprofile? Historically I've done it after I finish polishing and prior to sharpening. I'm thinking of doing it once all the marks...

Anyone else like to finish and touch up using edge leading strokes? I used to use edge trailing strokes, but have found that I'm much more likely to get a wire edge or a keen but fragile edge. Edge leading strokes seem to lend a little more bite to the edge, make it more durable, and are easier...

Currently polishing a Kurosaki KU AS and I'm nearly at a uniform 2k stone finish. I originally planned to move onto a Mizuhara 4k and finish with an ume 8k before moving to muddy 5-6k honyama and a Shobudani suita. Would the extra time on the synths be worth it compared with just using a Kouzaki...

Got a Shobudani suita in the mail today. The edge it put on my Kurosaki AS was to die for..or from lol that edge is deadly. I was attempting to polish my experiment knife, but kept scratching the jigane. I'd like to try it using thicker slurry before putting it in the, would probably polish a...

Hello, My name's metamorpheus and I'm a sharpening addict. almost 2 1/2 years free from alcohol, but can't seem to keep myself away from a good stone session. I've only been doing it for 8 months, but already have 12 stones including the two I never use. Two of the stones I use are...