Faygo
New Member
I’ve been working around restaurants in Canada for about 25 years. I have had a long interest in vintage Western cutlery and more recently started exploring Japanese knives.
I accumulated a few dozen stainless knives while building out my kit for work in the earlier years, and started acquiring vintage carbon steel more as collection pieces. I’m a sucker for thrift store bargains on anything around Victorinox quality or higher. Because of this I have a fairly large hoard of knives to practice sharpening and repairs on.
In the last couple of years I have become more interested in Japanese knives. I have a few budget starter knives, but haven’t yet started to build out a curated set of work knives.
These days I spend a lot of time trying to learn more about sharpening, working on knives for friends whenever they will let me. I would like to handle some higher performance knives to get an idea of where the bar can be in terms of excellence in geometry and aesthetics.
Glad to be here. Thanks for reading!
I accumulated a few dozen stainless knives while building out my kit for work in the earlier years, and started acquiring vintage carbon steel more as collection pieces. I’m a sucker for thrift store bargains on anything around Victorinox quality or higher. Because of this I have a fairly large hoard of knives to practice sharpening and repairs on.
In the last couple of years I have become more interested in Japanese knives. I have a few budget starter knives, but haven’t yet started to build out a curated set of work knives.
These days I spend a lot of time trying to learn more about sharpening, working on knives for friends whenever they will let me. I would like to handle some higher performance knives to get an idea of where the bar can be in terms of excellence in geometry and aesthetics.
Glad to be here. Thanks for reading!
