Or the tv journos who go up with the blue angels.
Best benchmark or reference classic 240 mm wa-gyuto knife?
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Or the tv journos who go up with the blue angels.
sea don't like to hear that
That V8 supercar has got to be one of the best race series around. At least as a spectator in my opinion.Back when I was a TV journo I did a few laps in a speedway (dirt) car - 160km/h a few cm away from the large concrete was was AWESOME! A few years earlier I did some laps in a V8 Supercar (more NASCAResque), and it was more fun, and had much better G-forces, but for the feeling of speed, that wall you could reach out and touch was hard to beat...
ME TOO! BYE!
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Yeah, agreed. I don't think it's as good now, given they all use the same base chassis ("Car Of The Future") but I get it from a development cost perspective. It's like knives - costs run wild if you do nothing to reign them in, and the very best gets priced out of reach and you have fewer people able to compete/be included. So they standardise somewhat, and we can all play in the mid-level
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josemartinlopez
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Going back to this, think this answered my question quite well. Something in the middle, familiar and of solid quality like a Tanaka 240 gyuto (and others cited) would be a great "benchmark" for someone new to Japanese knives, and one can get the stainless or stainless clad versions to ease entry.
What should have I said, 17 times, to convey that?
josemartinlopez
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Probably nothing, this is just me catching up and rereading your advice a couple of times.
Reading is good. Listening is good. I've never learned a thing while talking
josemartinlopez
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Yes, I read all your responses. If I didn't respond, it meant I read it more than once and was thinking about it and looking up the things referred to.
This is an impossible question to answer. Everyone's idea of what a benchmark knife or favorite knife is completely subjective.
I benchmark a knife off of the different characteristics I want. Those characteristics change as I try new knives and my taste's change. Half of the fun is buying knives or trying different knives is to find what's out there and what you like.
Take the general recommendations and what you think you want then go shopping. My only advice is you don't need to spend a lot of money to get a great knife especially when you don't know exactly what you are looking for yet
I benchmark a knife off of the different characteristics I want. Those characteristics change as I try new knives and my taste's change. Half of the fun is buying knives or trying different knives is to find what's out there and what you like.
Take the general recommendations and what you think you want then go shopping. My only advice is you don't need to spend a lot of money to get a great knife especially when you don't know exactly what you are looking for yet
DitmasPork
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@josemartinlopez Based on the comments and your own research, which knife in your opinion is the "Best benchmark or reference classic 240 mm wa-gyuto knife"?
josemartinlopez
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See above
DitmasPork
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"See above" what? Don't understand.
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DitmasPork
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Cheers. So, 240 Tanaka is @josemartinlopez 's "Best benchmark or reference classic 240 mm wa-gyuto knife."
Very subjective.
Anything with the word "Best" in it is going to be very subjective, especially to those that don't agree with the opinion.
josemartinlopez
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Well, "best benchmark" wouldn't mean best performing. Quite the opposite, it would mean something best in class that is familiar and accessible enough that it can be used as a reference point.
So the posts on this thread that didn't try to float a grail knife but tried to identify a "reference" knife for a certain profile or region were very helpful.
So the posts on this thread that didn't try to float a grail knife but tried to identify a "reference" knife for a certain profile or region were very helpful.
josemartinlopez
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Trying to read threads on the forums for the first time, the most difficult things was finding a place to start. It's not second nature to you to understand the profile and region of each knife, and you have to look up all the names thrown around in every sentence. Silly as it sounds, even though this was surprising to @daveb, just mentally dividing knives into heavy/workhorse, middleweight and light/laser took a long time for me (note this mental split is not in the knife help form), and things were easier once I began thinking using that split.
If I were to think of benchmarks to try to understand these three groups for myself, after reading countless posts, I would pick something like:
Workhorse: Watanabe
Middleweight: Tanaka
Laser: Suisin Inox Honyaki (or Ashi Ginga)
Then maybe think about a reference knife per region. I thought @valgard has the right idea, and I'd pick (Mutsumi) Hinoura as an established and familiar name with unquestioned quality. Mazaki is too new and the profile is arguably not settled yet.
If I were to think of benchmarks to try to understand these three groups for myself, after reading countless posts, I would pick something like:
Workhorse: Watanabe
Middleweight: Tanaka
Laser: Suisin Inox Honyaki (or Ashi Ginga)
Then maybe think about a reference knife per region. I thought @valgard has the right idea, and I'd pick (Mutsumi) Hinoura as an established and familiar name with unquestioned quality. Mazaki is too new and the profile is arguably not settled yet.
