memorael
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So I have been working on that Tojiro cleaver I posted a while ago about and the knife is still being tweaked in order to make it work up to my expectations. Currently the knife is just a bit more polished and pretty much stock, EXCEPT! for the new sharpening job I just did on it. The bevels are at around 20 degrees each side so they are pretty tough I would say. I did the whole turkey thing twice and the knife held up like nothing using a bamboo board which is in itself pretty good marketing for tojiros.
Now the interesting part, I used to own all the chocera's but sold them as I thought I didn't really like them that much, except for the 2k. It seems no one wants the 2k, so I went ahead and messed with it. I can without fear of being wrong say that the SS1k works ok on the tojiro steel, it cuts it fast and leaves a decent edge which I tested out on some tomatoes and potatoes and well, it performs ok if not mediocre. It seems the softness of the stone at such a high angle (20 degrees) doesn't really work well for some reason.
So after that I sharpened the knife using the chocera 2k and I am pleasently surprised. Usually when sharpening a knife I do a hamaguri edge using SS series or similiar soft, bouncy stones (king 6k and 8k comes to mind). All those stones seem to work wonderfully when doing los angles but didn't really sing to me with regular large angles. What I didn't like was the harder stones on hamaguri edges, they would leave the scratches in random patterns and the edge left something to be desired.
So my question to other fellow knife nuts is has anyone experienced something like this before? I am inclined to say that the harder the stone the better off you are at doing a higher angle edge, the burr BTW fell off almost automatically which was a nice surprise. But the cool part about this (at least to me) is that while the hard stones are good at higher angles and the softer stones are better at low angels, why not do a complex sharpening job and do the edge at a high angle with a hard stone and then finish off the form of the bevel using a softer stone? I am currently experimenting doing this and seem to be getting good results, figured I would share it to see if someone else jumps on the bandwagon and further clarifies if this works better or not.
Thanks for reading!
Now the interesting part, I used to own all the chocera's but sold them as I thought I didn't really like them that much, except for the 2k. It seems no one wants the 2k, so I went ahead and messed with it. I can without fear of being wrong say that the SS1k works ok on the tojiro steel, it cuts it fast and leaves a decent edge which I tested out on some tomatoes and potatoes and well, it performs ok if not mediocre. It seems the softness of the stone at such a high angle (20 degrees) doesn't really work well for some reason.
So after that I sharpened the knife using the chocera 2k and I am pleasently surprised. Usually when sharpening a knife I do a hamaguri edge using SS series or similiar soft, bouncy stones (king 6k and 8k comes to mind). All those stones seem to work wonderfully when doing los angles but didn't really sing to me with regular large angles. What I didn't like was the harder stones on hamaguri edges, they would leave the scratches in random patterns and the edge left something to be desired.
So my question to other fellow knife nuts is has anyone experienced something like this before? I am inclined to say that the harder the stone the better off you are at doing a higher angle edge, the burr BTW fell off almost automatically which was a nice surprise. But the cool part about this (at least to me) is that while the hard stones are good at higher angles and the softer stones are better at low angels, why not do a complex sharpening job and do the edge at a high angle with a hard stone and then finish off the form of the bevel using a softer stone? I am currently experimenting doing this and seem to be getting good results, figured I would share it to see if someone else jumps on the bandwagon and further clarifies if this works better or not.
Thanks for reading!