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Spf 2 people in line
239mm machi to tip
30mm tall
4mm thick
152g
Blue 2 steel
Feels quite hard on the stones and while straightening. Distinctly harder than normal. But abradable and chalky. . . Like a very hard chalk? Kinda interesting. Not glassy, faintly rubbery but still pleasant. Still resembles good white steel in edge, just with the alloying of course. A good steel. More feedback in sharpening vs okubo and hard in a different way, okubo was glassier. Wat blue 2 is crisper but a little softer feeling. I guess abrasion resistant is how the yanagi feels, but fine and even, and great deburring. Harder than Zakari blue 1. Bites into hair very readily and finely, but doesn't want to got through as easily as my favorite steels, but still a really great steel.
Lamination artifact on the ura, which is why I bought it. It shouldn't affect use, and the stamps are made on the ura on the lamination line to test it's integrity, so this passes and didn't split open. Wide bevel sharpened and took out super annoying low spots ... They were quite deep, but ultimately workable. Straigtened and reprofiled. A heavier yanagiba, with more meat to the body and slightly lower bevels, and less convex bevels. The stock finish was mediablasted, which is usually for the medium end lines because it masks uneven sharpening better. So note, more finishing in the higher end lines. The last 1-2mm of ura at the heel doesn't contact and I didn't want to hammer it to force contact. Attempting to straigten it didn't work. Same with the last 0.5mm of the tip, though I can reprofile the spine down. Buffalo horn ferrule.
Spf 2 people in line
239mm machi to tip
30mm tall
4mm thick
152g
Blue 2 steel
Feels quite hard on the stones and while straightening. Distinctly harder than normal. But abradable and chalky. . . Like a very hard chalk? Kinda interesting. Not glassy, faintly rubbery but still pleasant. Still resembles good white steel in edge, just with the alloying of course. A good steel. More feedback in sharpening vs okubo and hard in a different way, okubo was glassier. Wat blue 2 is crisper but a little softer feeling. I guess abrasion resistant is how the yanagi feels, but fine and even, and great deburring. Harder than Zakari blue 1. Bites into hair very readily and finely, but doesn't want to got through as easily as my favorite steels, but still a really great steel.
Lamination artifact on the ura, which is why I bought it. It shouldn't affect use, and the stamps are made on the ura on the lamination line to test it's integrity, so this passes and didn't split open. Wide bevel sharpened and took out super annoying low spots ... They were quite deep, but ultimately workable. Straigtened and reprofiled. A heavier yanagiba, with more meat to the body and slightly lower bevels, and less convex bevels. The stock finish was mediablasted, which is usually for the medium end lines because it masks uneven sharpening better. So note, more finishing in the higher end lines. The last 1-2mm of ura at the heel doesn't contact and I didn't want to hammer it to force contact. Attempting to straigten it didn't work. Same with the last 0.5mm of the tip, though I can reprofile the spine down. Buffalo horn ferrule.
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