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Is the grind as awesome in person as it looks in those pics?

Two excellent choices. The Birch & Bevel carbon gyuto has an exceptionally resilient edge. It is more chip resistant than Yoshikane's SKD (which is terrific in many other ways). My Birch & Bevel has the oak handle. At the time I bought it, that was the handle on offer. I'd be equally happy with...

bird's beak paring knife < bird's beak cleaver

I guess all the rumors were true. He really is everywhere.

Not a fan of those aesthetics. But the profiles and the handle shapes inspire real doubts about usability.

Is that the model they advertise as having features like "Is EXTREMELY heavy" and "Will crush even the most stubborn of ingredients" and "Versatile--MASSIVE weight means you can use this as a bludgeon OR as a Jersey barrier!!!!"?

Always been more of a Webdings guy myself. But I'm cool with Wingdings 2 as long as they're laser etched and then covered in painted-on KU

Shhhhhh. If we don't talk about them, the new boxes will go unnoticed! I mean, I've bought from that guy's site before. His selection is awesome. Heck, if he accepted credit card or PayPal, I'd probably buy more stuff from him.

Fortunately, you have plenty of solid options. Unfortunately, you will have to make a choice from among those options, and you will have to live with that chosen sujihiki as your only slicer forever. Okay, that last part is an exaggeration. Anyway, I reckon this Wakui suji would work pretty...

Interesting. Both of those Yoshikane knives appear to bear kanji with which I am not familiar. Of course, Yoshikane produces many knives for wholesalers and the like, but yours seem to bear neither Yoshikane nor Hatsukokoro kanji. So I have to ask: What outfit sold you those Yoshikanes?

No, it is the right size. The problem is that it does not have enough slots. With a couple minor tweaks, they could have fit 8-10 more slots into that block.

Holy cow. A 26-slot bamboo block on a swivel.

Do you have any experience with these? How about their wall racks?

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Although Osmo Polyx is impeccable for certain tasks (I won't use anything else to finish handles), I would not put it on a cutting board. Instead, I'd use another product from the same maker--namely, Osmo TopOil. TopOil is food safe.

Debado 180/200 is pretty good. Makes reprofiling and chip repair a cinch. Drawbacks are that it is very friable, so it makes a lot of mess and requires frequent flattening. Really extreme low spots, especially on stainless, seem to stump the debado just like they do most stones.

Have you used one? If so, what'd you think? (I've been eyeing this as a possible gift knife or pleasant tool for in-kitchen proselytizing at dinner parties.)

The relative dearth of commentary about these has me on the verge of getting one to review. Perhaps from Sugi...

That may well be the case. Fortunately or unfortunately, I cannot, and probably never will be able to, confirm or refute that possibility, because someone apparently purchased the cleaver.

Indeed, that is quite thin at the blade root. Also, is it just me, or does it look like there's a bit of recurve or waviness at the edge here: