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The guy is obviously very talented. His work looks incredible to me. You want understated, you ask him for understated. Pretty simple.

Great knife

I'll help

Was this ever rectified?

Since I already own two Billipps, and a Rader, I'd likely go with one from Mareko Maumasi, and/or Bob Kramer. Honestly, I'd like a Kramer from when Mareko was apprenticing under Bob.

Bar Raval, Queen St W. Tosho is pretty cool, too

Buca, Bar Buca, Canoe, Dandylion, Correnti Cigar Factory....

Konosuke Fujiyama are popular ones to get rehandled, though I like their stock handles a lot. Toyama, and Carter Muteki would be good too.

I use my 120 daily, and love 170-180s. Amazingly handy knives.

Weird

Nora Knives uses it a lot, and very effectively. I guess it maintains a nice amount of grip when wet, from what Steve tells me. I'd like to try it out sometime.

They're lots of fun, and a great excuse to buy another knife. I've owned about five, and I'm down to three. All are lasers.

And a sen is essentially a drawknife, correct?

Good call. I like the HD steel. Is it D2, does anyone know?

AEB-L, or CTS-XHP...I think I prefer XHP.

This reminds me a bit of the result of using a slack belt with the blade (or handle, or whatever you're shaping) pointing up, so that the grinder is running heel to tip (parallel to the cutting edge). The tension is tighter towards the wheels of the grinder, making it naturally "eat" more...

I use my fingers and run them along the bottom 3rd, edge, and middle. But why is the middle third different on a Kato? Seems funny.

Looks like you completely get what I'm saying. I have a feeling it might be a knife for high volume. I mean, I cook, and I cook a lot (between the firehall and home), but it's not the same thing. I honestly want to give the gyuto a try, as I've only had the petty... Which was fat...honestly...

I'm not being argumentative, but that does surprise me. I'm not saying they're not very good knives, but I don't get the hype, that's all. I should point out, however, that I don't cook in a commercial kitchen.

I've been on these forums long enough to have seen quite a few iterations, and at least 15-20 "It Makers". It's all part of the fun, I suppose, chasing the newest and best, but to me, very few have lived up to the hype. At the risk of leaving one or two out, I will say that the only ones I can...