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Opening this up for sale to fund another Milan.
Milan’s Original IG post:
Current Pics:
Price:
- Assigning a price is tricky, especially given I have invested quite a bit of my time to restore a stone polished finish, but i'll base it off the previous listing at £1,500 plus shipping.
Specs:
- 135cr3 & wrought damascus cladding
- Full stone-ready convex geometry
- 272mm edge length
- 56mm heel height
- 4 to 0.8mm spine thickness
- 272g
- Hexagonal thuya burl handle and stainless steel cap
History & Condition:
- I bought this last year from Romain here: (https://www.kitchenknifeforums.com/threads/milan-full-polish-272-mm-gyuto.68339/#post-1048822) and am the third owner.
- To my understanding it has been sharpened at least once, but I didn't notice this myself as there's barely a microbevel and it cuts great.
- Before it was sold to Romain, it was sent to a sharpener who sadly refreshed the patina by using sandpaper and an etch, which nuked Milan's original natural stone polished finish. I have since put a lot (and I do mean a lot) of time, effort, and learning into restoring a natural stone polish.
- As a result of my work restoring the polish, I can confidently say that the geometry on this knife is absolutely flawless. A full kasumi polish should be well beyond my skillset, but the precision with which Milan set the foundational geometry on this knife made it feel like cheating.
- I used a progression of Uchigumori, Shobu Asagi and hard Eastern Suita Jnats to remove the sandpaper scratches, polish up the core and overshoot the desired level of refinement on the cladding, and then pulled the latter back down with fingerstones. I finished up by doing a few cycles of etching followed by fingerstone passes to get a nice balance of contrast and detail on the cladding, with nail polish applied to the core throughout this stage to preserve the organic lustre from the Jnats.
- There are still a small handful of artefacts and the odd stray scratch here and there, but I think it's a pretty nice finish at this stage (although you would have no difficulty refining further if you were a masochist and enjoyed that sort of thing).
- I haven't touched the edge.
- There is a small divot/imperfection in the cladding on the left side of the knife in front of the maker’s mark. It’s not a delamination, and can be seen in Milan’s original IG post. It looks completely stable, but worth flagging anyway for transparency:
Thanks all.
Milan’s Original IG post:
Current Pics:
Price:
- Assigning a price is tricky, especially given I have invested quite a bit of my time to restore a stone polished finish, but i'll base it off the previous listing at £1,500 plus shipping.
Specs:
- 135cr3 & wrought damascus cladding
- Full stone-ready convex geometry
- 272mm edge length
- 56mm heel height
- 4 to 0.8mm spine thickness
- 272g
- Hexagonal thuya burl handle and stainless steel cap
History & Condition:
- I bought this last year from Romain here: (https://www.kitchenknifeforums.com/threads/milan-full-polish-272-mm-gyuto.68339/#post-1048822) and am the third owner.
- To my understanding it has been sharpened at least once, but I didn't notice this myself as there's barely a microbevel and it cuts great.
- Before it was sold to Romain, it was sent to a sharpener who sadly refreshed the patina by using sandpaper and an etch, which nuked Milan's original natural stone polished finish. I have since put a lot (and I do mean a lot) of time, effort, and learning into restoring a natural stone polish.
- As a result of my work restoring the polish, I can confidently say that the geometry on this knife is absolutely flawless. A full kasumi polish should be well beyond my skillset, but the precision with which Milan set the foundational geometry on this knife made it feel like cheating.
- I used a progression of Uchigumori, Shobu Asagi and hard Eastern Suita Jnats to remove the sandpaper scratches, polish up the core and overshoot the desired level of refinement on the cladding, and then pulled the latter back down with fingerstones. I finished up by doing a few cycles of etching followed by fingerstone passes to get a nice balance of contrast and detail on the cladding, with nail polish applied to the core throughout this stage to preserve the organic lustre from the Jnats.
- There are still a small handful of artefacts and the odd stray scratch here and there, but I think it's a pretty nice finish at this stage (although you would have no difficulty refining further if you were a masochist and enjoyed that sort of thing).
- I haven't touched the edge.
- There is a small divot/imperfection in the cladding on the left side of the knife in front of the maker’s mark. It’s not a delamination, and can be seen in Milan’s original IG post. It looks completely stable, but worth flagging anyway for transparency:
Thanks all.
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