Noob fail

[Pie]

Thought of this when I was working on a heavy restoration. I bought my Takeda gyuto a year or so ago. At that time my train of thought was “I don’t like the belly. I’ll just reprofile it when I get it. It can’t be that hard.”

Hah. Hahahahahaha. Stupid past self. Luckily I’m slightly less dumb now.

 

[refcast]

Reprofiling, and then thinning. Preventing recurves. Left/right symmetry. Not bending the knife. Keeping stones flat. It sucks hard.

 

[blokey]

Can you even re-profile a Takeda tho? The grind would be totally different.

 

[Pie]

Can you even re-profile a Takeda tho? The grind would be totally different.

I mean.. it sure wouldn’t be the same after you do it but it could be forced.

@refcast some of these still elude me. Sometimes I just stand there looking at a knife for minutes at a time. My wife doesn’t question it anymore. Always so much to learn.

 

[refcast]

Pressure is also a big thing.... My right hand can push down too hard and cause a recurve, and a dished stone can cause that, too. Lighter pressure can help more evenly cut... Ugh

 

[ethompson]

Nobody every got decent at this stuff without mucking up some knives. This is why I keep a few junkers around

 

[DrEriksson]

Nobody every got decent at this stuff without mucking up some knives. This is why I keep a few junkers around

The more you practice, the more junkers you'll get.

 

[M1k3]

The more you practice, the more junkers you'll get.

And with even more practice, the less junkers you'll have.

 

[Pie]

And with even more practice, the less junkers you'll have.

One of those circle of life things

 

[refcast]

@M1k3

The more I practiced, the more junkers I wanted to buy haha

 

[deltaplex]

@M1k3

The more I practiced, the more junkers I wanted to buy haha

I just nabbed a wildly damaged set of 3 because "I can fix them", and I can't tell you how excited I am for that junk to arrive.

 

[btbyrd]

When you try to flatten a Takeda, the Takeda flattens you.

 

[M1k3]

@M1k3

The more I practiced, the more junkers I wanted to buy haha

To turn them into users, right? Right?!

 

[Barmoley]

For myself, I've decided that heavily modifying the profile on something like takeda just isn't worth the effort without power tools and the skill to do it. These knives are what they are and there are plenty of others, so if the profile needs to be heavily modified I'd rather just get a different brand knife that suits me better since even if successful at the end of it the knife won't be a takeda anymore. The cladding on the stainless clad ones is notoriously bad for grinding.

 

[Pie]

Cue junky af

Ooo yeah. That’s the stuff. Haven’t reversed a hollow grind for a while. Let’s see what I’ve learned.

 

[Cmfuen]

I foolishly bought a used Misono UX10 suji with crazy scratches and a broken tip "just to practice." I repaired it, but could I have picked a worse steel?