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**Update** I'm an idiot and found my receipt where it very clearly says Tesshu. So I guess I'll never know who the maker is unless I take the handle off one day. Adventure for another time I guess.

Ive always wondered if wooden sayas could damage the edge from the blade rattling around inside?

Picked this kamagata usuba up last week from A-Frames. In hindsight, it was probably a little irresponsible to purchase without knowing more about it, but I decided to rely on the seller selling me something ok. Plus I figured if anything I could try to resell it and buy something else later...

Just going to count kitchen knives & hobby knives and not duplicates since I have extras of a few 18 Slicers - 2 Bone Cleaver - 1 Butcher -1 Chef - 3 Santoku - 1 Yanagiba - 3 Deba - 1 Boning/Filleting - 2 Hobby (fixed/folding) - 4

My workhorse knives are pretty simple. They're mostly Victorinox. I have a couple of cheaper japanese knives (same maker, yanagiba & deba probably White2 or White3) from a local japanese shop Shirokiya we used to have here (mark on the yanagiba below). I'm currently researching semi actively...

Hi All, Relatively new here, but I did try to look around to see if it was discussed anywhere. Generally, I think I'm pretty okay at sharpening but every once and again I'll come up against a knife that won't get as sharp as I'm expecting which makes me think I'm a noob and after joining and...

What does "gummy" mean?

What does "gummy" mean? Is it the burr?

Welcome

Just found this forum and I must say the base of knowledge here is quite overwhelming. I've already learned much and looking forward learning more. I'm by no means a collector but have more than a few knives that I find use for here and there. A few folders, few fixed blades, but mainly...