Hello I'm Seckin (Kokopelli) from Turkey!

[Kokopelli]

Hello Everyone! I'm Seckin from Turkey. I am an active Electronics Engineer at age 43 working as a researcher/developer in a Goverment Research Center in Kocaeli, TR.

I have been a knife enthuisast for quite a while, started with pocket knives and moved on to kitchen knives later. I also have many other surrounding hobbies like EDC gear, Headphones, Flashlights, Fountain Pens and sharpness related Straight Razors and Wet Shaving. Photography and Car Detailing are also other hobbies I have been following for around 20 years.

I am mainly a three meal guy, home cook, loving the effort in breakfast, preparing appetizers and salad for the lunch and cooking meat for my daughter, soup and veggies for my recently vegetarian wife. I am not a extensively meat guy but rather have meat diced or minced along with vegetable meals.

My knife accumulation exceeds my abilities in cooking, tough I am mainly a Zwilling / Miyabi user as this brand has the most appealing selection with fair pricing in our country. Unfortunately being an Engineer usually causes attraction to the specifications and numbers, colliding with my acquisition habits, resulting in equipment buildups.

Just to list a few of what I have at home;

* Zwilling Pro 12 cm, 16 cm Chefs, 14cm Rocking Santoku, 18cm Wood Santoku
* Zwilling Professional S 14cm Santoku
* Zwilling Artis 14cm Prep
* Zwilling Five Star 20cm Chefs
* Zwilling Twin Gourmet 18cm Chinese Chefs
* Zwilling Life 3 blade kit, 20cm Chefs, 15cm Utility, 9 cm Paring
* Miyabi Artisan 18cm Santoku, 24cm Gyuto
* Miyabi Birchwood 20cm Gyuto
* Miyabi 4000fc 24cm Gyuto
* Tojiro DP 210mm Gyuto, 13cm Paring
* Kai Wasabi Black 16.5cm Santoku
* Cold Steel Kitchen Series Chefs, Carving, Bread, Utility, Paring Knives,
* Spyderco Kitchen Utility Knife
* Wenger 23cm, Mora Frosts 22cm, Arcos 20cm, Opinel 20cm, Surbisa 18cm, Surbisa 17cm, Pirge 21cm Chefs,
* Ikea and Shibazi Chinese Cleavers (on the way)
* Many other kitchen and butcher knives... Tefal, Tupperware, Pirge, Surbisa, etc

- Stone buildup for Knives and Straight Razors
* Suehiro Cerax 1000, Suehiro 1000/3000 combo, Suehiro 5000
* King 300, 6000, Makita (by King) 1200
* Naniwa 8000, 12000
* Miyabi (by Chosera) 400, 1000
* Shapton Pro 2000, 5000, 8000
* Taidea 600, 2000/5000, 320/600 Diamond
* Couticules and Welsh Slates


I hope this can introduce me by one bit.

Regards,

Seçkin (sounds like "Sech-khin"), using the nickname Kokopelli here as like on other forums I attend for a while.

 

[bkultra]

Welcome to the forum

 

[WildBoar]

Welcome!

 

[Qapla']

Welcome.

Sounds like a pretty cool collection. Which Naniwa 8000? And what kind of polishes do Welsh slate stones create?

 

[Kokopelli]

Thank you for your warm welcome.

My Naniwa 8000 is yellow ceramic, Specialty Sharpening Stone (SP-480). I have used this, purple Welch stone (8000-12000 grit?) and my other higher grit stones only on straight razors. I didn't need sharpening or polishing on my VG10 or SG2 knives yet so King 300, Makita 1200 and Suehiro 1000/3000 were already enough for the softer steel knives. I am maintaining my harder steels just with pasted strops for now.