Whoops, noticed some tiny rust spots right on the cutting edge of my Ashi Hamono suji. They are now gone and she's now oiled and shaving sharp. Now that I have "the station" set up, I might have to touch up some others...
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looking good with the patina and that handle! I assume it’s the stock handle, but burnt? 270?
You got it.
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I finally did it, I hated to touch it but it had to have a thinning and a good cleanup.
I finally did it, I hated to touch it but it had to have a thinning and a good cleanup.
Preparing for All Rectangle March I see...
I am not sure I would want to be eating all those chips.
how do you feel about the burr with gloves ? what is the coarseness of stones?
why are you using gloves? i also want to use gloves but i cant feel burrs or anything with them...
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Practice really. After feeling for the burr with gloves on, and confirming it with gloves off, I was able to detect the burr with gloves on.
The stones are pretty coarse. About 120 and 320 or so. I do let the fine side glaze and load up so it acts a little finer grit.
I'm using the gloves because I am at work. I don't want to contaminate any food.
cant you wash the hands ? or does it still pose a risk
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I'd really have to scrub under the finger nails and around the cuticles. Gloves are much easier to clean up.
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Ohira Suita on Tanaka and Moritaka.
Working out some chipping from breaking down a duck:
Greasylake
Thick knives save lives
Was hoping I might luck out on this one and get some decent figure but ah well, you can't win em all
Ohhhhkay. All right it’s sharp enough. Thanks ozuku suita x akapin nagura. Special mention to TF AS. That’s uhh… really great. Thumbs up.
Incredible combo. Obviously.
Incredible combo. Obviously.
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tostadas
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Got this in for cleanup. Never seen so much rust on a stainless steel.
This one got disassembled for the clean up?
Nice clean up work!
I had one of those years ago. I grew up with the Gerber name meaning quality. I hadn't been paying very close attention to the knife world and didn't realize they'd sold and moved a lot of production to China. What a sad experience. The knife was little more than overly priced gas station junk.
tostadas
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Unfortunately no. The manufacturer does not recommend disassembly on these. I think maybe due to cheap mfg process, maybe it won't go back together properly. If it were my own knife and not a friend's, then I'd risk it, but in this case I elected not to. So the cleanup was done to the best of my ability with thin tools to squeeze into the little nooks.
Definitely feels like cheap material. I know I apexed it, and my sharpening skills aren't that poor. I went thru 4 different stones trying to find one that would leave a decent edge. Unfortunately Ive concluded that this steel wasn't intended to take an edge.
Here's a video of the whole knife after cleanup.
And the inferiority extends beyond the blade. The "lock" on mine got so unreliable in short order that it was dangerous. I tossed it out.
Iyotoooooooo
Polishing toe-dip...
Wat Pro and shoubudoni.
Wat Pro and shoubudoni.
From last week when I was killing time during our 2 day power outage. My little guy wanted to help out with my Forgecraft restoration project.
Chasing the low spots:
This time using a diamond stone instead of a SiC and I feel like since it's much harder it's better for following the existing convexity.
This time using a diamond stone instead of a SiC and I feel like since it's much harder it's better for following the existing convexity.
Trying to keep the convex grind while chasing the low spots. Will blend the middle in last.
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Little reshaping happening down here. Taking the hollow bevels from the Birgersson and changing them over to convex bevels is a little tricky. I also wanted to subtly thin out the tip so the bevels were more consistent in height from back to front. In the left side I focused more on the iron pushing the shinogi up subtly across the whole length and quite a bit at the tip. On the right I worked a little more evenly between steel and clad introducing a little more convexity and leaving a slightly lower shoulder. Subtle changes given the overall geometry started so thin, but should keep the edge from getting to thin as I tweaked the grind. Ready to start polishing now.
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Scratches do not look bad at all as it is! What grit did you stop at for the vid?
