Nice! I'm still learning knives but looks a lot like the one that was given to meVisited an old friend who went to Osaka recently and picked this up from https://www.towerknives.com/
Nice! I'm still learning knives but looks a lot like the one that was given to meVisited an old friend who went to Osaka recently and picked this up from https://www.towerknives.com/
what Itinomonn is that? love those knives
Itinomonn StainLess Kasumi 150mm Wa Petty |
Do you do this ambidextrous or do you only use one of your LH/RH side for this?I was watching some YouTube vids of Ivan and he pulled out a Mazaki KU to sharpen/polish and it inspired me to do the same with mine.
Spent a few hours last night playing with some different low grits and working on the bevels. This is after taking it up to sg500 to see how the work is progressing.
There’s a stubborn low spot on the heel I’m trying not to overdo but other than that it’s been smooth.
I’m a novice polisher so any tips or suggestions are welcome based on what you see.
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I was watching some YouTube vids of Ivan and he pulled out a Mazaki KU to sharpen/polish and it inspired me to do the same with mine.
Spent a few hours last night playing with some different low grits and working on the bevels. This is after taking it up to sg500 to see how the work is progressing.
There’s a stubborn low spot on the heel I’m trying not to overdo but other than that it’s been smooth.
I’m a novice polisher so any tips or suggestions are welcome based on what you see.
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Don’t try and chase out that low spot at the edge by the heel by working the whole bevel - you’re just going to wildly push up that shinogi trying to get there. You need to add some more convexity and work it out from the lamination line down. Will mean losing some height (not the full height of the low spot!!) but it’s worth the trade off.
Also you aren’t rotating enough at the tip to compensate for the distal taper. Your edge to shinogi angle at the tip will be far more acute than at the heel.
Ambidextrous. I actually do the same for sharpening the edge. I've always felt more comfortable switching hands and keeping the edge facing me.Do you do this ambidextrous or do you only use one of your LH/RH side for this?
Don’t try and chase out that low spot at the edge by the heel by working the whole bevel - you’re just going to wildly push up that shinogi trying to get there. You need to add some more convexity and work it out from the lamination line down. Will mean losing some height (not the full height of the low spot!!) but it’s worth the trade off.
Also you aren’t rotating enough at the tip to compensate for the distal taper. Your edge to shinogi angle at the tip will be far more acute than at the heel.
Yes, you want maintain the height of your contact area from heel to toe giving yourself a uniform shinogi height. You can see from your scratch pattern that you are over abrading at the heel and under abrading at the tip. The compensating motion is a mix of lifting the handle up and rotating towards the spine. Subtle but important movements.Ambidextrous. I actually do the same for sharpening the edge. I've always felt more comfortable switching hands and keeping the edge facing me.
Thanks for the tips! I'll start working on the convexity near/around the lamination line. That makes a lot of sense and I've already noticed that shinogi line going way up on the left hand side of the blade chasing that low spot.
For rotating the tip is the goal to be making more contact with the blade face near the tip then? Similar to how the KU line draws up steeper in that area? Also when you say rotate, is it rotating the tip towards me or away from me? Or is it more of a lift where I'd have the tip touching the stone but not the rest of the blade due to the taper? The lift concept is similar to what I do when I'm edge sharpening to keep the angle at the tip so I'm familiar with that.
Whoa. I stumbled on the same sandpaper method but am using balsa. I'ma look for some cork. Thanks for sharing!Hollow hira means a full bench stone polish isn’t possible so… Shigezaki??
Current scratch pattern is 400 grit to work out the inexplicably deep grind scratches, then I’ll polish up the core before deciding whether to either leave a working sandpaper finish on the cladding, or alternatively go hell for leather and refine the grits until I can convert to a fingerstone Kasumi.
The grunt work is made miles easier (and quicker) by glueing a rectangle of cork to a long piece of wood, and using the cork as backing for strips of sandpaper. I think Maxim does this, and i swear I read that he picked it up from Shigefusa.
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I imagine balsa would work the same, but perhaps cork might flex and conform to the surface slightly betterWhoa. I stumbled on the same sandpaper method but am using balsa. I'ma look for some cork. Thanks for sharing!
Funny enough, I glued the balsa to shelf liner to achieve exactly this effect, lmao.I imagine balsa would work the same, but perhaps cork might flex and conform to the surface slightly better
Been wondering for a while what that rectangle on a stick exactly was, and what it was for.Hollow hira means a full bench stone polish isn’t possible so… Shigezaki??
Current scratch pattern is 400 grit to work out the inexplicably deep grind scratches, then I’ll polish up the core before deciding whether to either leave a working sandpaper finish on the cladding, or alternatively go hell for leather and refine the grits until I can convert to a fingerstone Kasumi.
The grunt work is made miles easier (and quicker) by glueing a rectangle of cork to a long piece of wood, and using the cork as backing for strips of sandpaper. I think Maxim does this, and i swear I read that he picked it up from Shigefusa.
Convex > blade finish > concave > flat faceFor any of y'all that have experimented... How do convexity and finish interact for food release? Is one more important than the other? I tested out the Vics I just did and even potatoes don't stick I remember seeing some YouTube videos from Salty waaaaay back in the day but never anything formal.
Thanks so much for the rankingConvex > blade finish > concave > flat face
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