JJ when Dave replied to you the way he did, and subsequently seeing your post in the Takeda thread (in addition to my lack of things to do yesterday), I googled your name. You're an instructor at Hyde Park, correct?
Safe to say you know more about cookery than I ever will...but this place is about knives.
That Takeda digging into the cutting board only means it's sharper and thinner than any knife you've had. We don't use oil stones around here. We don't sharpen with only edge trailing or leading strokes. We don't use thick German steels. We don't rock...we don't hone. Welcome to the rabbit hole. Take the red pill.
Hi Gravy Power
To answer your first question what was stolen, a full set of Gustav emil urn, a few early western style Japanese knifes and some random proto types I was trying out for some sponsors. However they were mine which were put together personally by me
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Almost all my knifes nowdays are employer provided, sponsored sets or gifts. Some of which are German steel and some Japanese, bit of a mixture really, and sharpened in a mixture of ways. Currently at work I use an I.O. Shen 270 gyuto and a JKC 63 Damascus gyuto which are my current main work horses and have been for a while.
In all honesty I really wanted to like the Takeda, to put it into perspective it is probably the first knife I have actually paid for in over 10 years, with the aim of building a collection again, which I have personally chosen
I take note on your point of why it bites into the wood, but I do have other Japanese knifes which are equally as sharp and thinner which do not do it, could it be the factory sharpening grind or the shape of the knife, which is perhaps making me push it into the board more than other knifes? Interestingly all youtube videos and other online videos of a Takeda being used, everybody is using simple push cuts, on an onion and not pushing or pulling the knife.
When I get time ill be posting the sale of the Takeda on here.
I am about to order more knives which I am focused on personal customs or top end, with the one clause they must be western styles. Any suggestions?