Hey y'all!
My parent's home in Asheville, NC was destroyed by the flood waters of the Swannanoa River. Not in the floodplain and in a rush to get out early in the morning as the river rose (and frankly thinking their 30ft high second story would be sufficient to keep it from flooding), I lost about 2/3rds of the knives I've collected over the last 10-15 years, all my japanese natural stones, and most of my synthetic and diamond stones. Luckily, I do have a small portion of knives back in France at my in-laws house. However, I lost a bunch of rare and in some cases very special knives to me. The biggest sour notes for me are the Kato gyuto I bought from Morihei on the trip to Japan when my wife and I got engaged, as well as raft of older or hard-to-replace blades from Robert, Trey, Will, Rader, and Yanick. I was quite attached to my natural stones too, many of which came from members here or direct from Japan. Of particular note were a giant, gorgeous hakka iromono, a couple brick ohiras, and a silky nakayama suita from CKC.
I wanted to make this post mostly as a little farewell tribute for these knives. I also collected all the random photos I had happened to have left on my phone into an album that you can find here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-QmIs3GDX7WdRBuTAFU29EQgdEtHZIbZ?usp=sharing
(If you want to help my family and others like us, please see my other post about here: https://www.kitchenknifeforums.com/threads/helene-damage.74379/#post-1155241)
The knives and stones listed below are just what I had catalogued in my spreadsheet, but I was pretty slack about it for some types of knives, mainly my work knives at the butcher shop.
Knives not listed: Silverthorns, Invictus butcher knives, various hankotsus, various single bevels
STONES:
My parent's home in Asheville, NC was destroyed by the flood waters of the Swannanoa River. Not in the floodplain and in a rush to get out early in the morning as the river rose (and frankly thinking their 30ft high second story would be sufficient to keep it from flooding), I lost about 2/3rds of the knives I've collected over the last 10-15 years, all my japanese natural stones, and most of my synthetic and diamond stones. Luckily, I do have a small portion of knives back in France at my in-laws house. However, I lost a bunch of rare and in some cases very special knives to me. The biggest sour notes for me are the Kato gyuto I bought from Morihei on the trip to Japan when my wife and I got engaged, as well as raft of older or hard-to-replace blades from Robert, Trey, Will, Rader, and Yanick. I was quite attached to my natural stones too, many of which came from members here or direct from Japan. Of particular note were a giant, gorgeous hakka iromono, a couple brick ohiras, and a silky nakayama suita from CKC.
I wanted to make this post mostly as a little farewell tribute for these knives. I also collected all the random photos I had happened to have left on my phone into an album that you can find here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-QmIs3GDX7WdRBuTAFU29EQgdEtHZIbZ?usp=sharing
(If you want to help my family and others like us, please see my other post about here: https://www.kitchenknifeforums.com/threads/helene-damage.74379/#post-1155241)
The knives and stones listed below are just what I had catalogued in my spreadsheet, but I was pretty slack about it for some types of knives, mainly my work knives at the butcher shop.
Knives not listed: Silverthorns, Invictus butcher knives, various hankotsus, various single bevels
| Catcheside Bullnose | 260mm | En9 |
| Catcheside Butcher (french pattern) | 285 | En9 |
| Catcheside Cleaver/Nakiri | 240x73 337g | c103/wrought+c103 |
| Catcheside Damascus Gyuto | 260 | 1.244 Nickel Damascus, ironwood handle |
| Comet Gyuto | 300mm | 52100 |
| Goko Hamono Hankotsu | 150 | |
| Kato Gyuto-Morihei | 240 | Standard |
| Kato Workhorse | 240 | |
| Shigefusa Gyuto | 270(283) | Kasumi |
| The9 Gyuto | 250 | Blue 2, wrought cladding |
| Toyama Gyuto (stainless) | 270 | Stainless clad |
| Tsourkan Workhorse | 270 | 52100 |
| Vintage Bullnose | ||
| Watanabe 270 | 270 | Stainless clad |
| Yanick Cleaver | 186x99 | 135Cr3 Honduras Rosewood |
| Yanick Gyuto | 300mm | c130 |
| Yanick Gyuto | 265x60 | 135c Wrought |
| Yanick Gyuto | 260 | |
| Yanick Suji | 320 | Aogami Super |
| Yoshikane Gyuto | 270 | V2 Damascus |
| Takeda | 270 | AS Ironclad |
| Shihan Hankotsu | 150ish? | 52100 |
| Tansu Stainless | 270 | Niolox, ironwood handle |
| Catcheside KU Damascus (second) | 240x56 | Spicy White |
| Masakane Gyuto | 270 | SK |
| Ashi Cleaver | AEBL, western handled | |
| Rader Slicer | 300mm | 52100 |
| 1000 Diamond Vitrified and JKI Diamonds | ||||
| Aizu | ||||
| Okutono Suita | ||||
| Asagi | ||||
| Gesshin 2000 | ||||
| Gesshin 6000 S&G | ||||
| Generational Hakka Iromono | ||||
| Hatanaka Ohira Blue Renge | ||||
| Hatanaka Ohira Double Sided Stamped | ||||
| Hatanaka Ohira Renge | ||||
| Maruoyama Shiro Suita | ||||
| Nagura (varied) | ||||
| Nakayama Renge Suita (CKC) | ||||
| Nano Hone Flattening x2 | ||||
| Ohira Suita Suminagashi | ||||
| Okudo Suita | ||||
| Red Aoto/Atago | ||||
| Hakka Suita (morihei) |
