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[dan]

Congrats on graduate school @dan

Thank you!

 

[Horsemover]

Thank you!

Congrats man! Love the gift to yourself...what’s your graduate Degree in?

 

[dan]

Congrats man! Love the gift to yourself...what’s your graduate Degree in?

Thanks! My degree will be in Materials Science & Engineering.

 

[Nagakin]

Tip if you're having focusing issues is to hold your fingers near the choil and focus on them instead.

 

[rob]

Watanabe 180 Pro Nakiri.
I know lots of members own one these and I was late to buy one. This one definitely lives up to the hype. Steel feels beautiful on the stones.

 

[AFKitchenknivesguy]

A few I'm waiting for, Shigefusa 270mm yanigiba:

A 210mm gyuto from Yoshikazu Tanaka in white 1:

And a 240mm gyuto from Yoshikazu Tanaka in white 2 with custom handle:

 

[sumofruit]

A few I'm waiting for, Shigefusa 270mm yanigiba:
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A 210mm gyuto from Yoshikazu Tanaka in white 1:
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And a 240mm gyuto from Yoshikazu Tanaka in white 2 with custom handle:
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@AFKitchenknivesguy Nice. Is #3 (with custom handle) the one with a 'Single Edged Blade'? I hadn't realized gyutos were typically made with a single edge (= single bevel??), and Miura seems to carry a fair number of them. If single bevel, what do you plan to use it with?

 

[AFKitchenknivesguy]

Yeah, it's single blade. I've had quite a few single blade gyutos through the years, including a honyaki in 2009. Use it like any other knife, except obviously a little different with the single edge.

 

[soigne_west]

Raquin KT
273x54
Thickness at handle: 4.3
Above heel: 3.3
Halfway: 2
Weight: 243 grams

Bought this on a whim but glad I did. I don’t normally reach for my 270’s but this knife is probably going to change that.

 

[MartinJ]

Very asymetrical grind... Very for right handed users

 

[Brian Weekley]

Yikes ... beautiful knife!

You’re a lot smarter that I. Last time I did something on a “WHIM’ I ended up married .... for the third time!

Should have bought a knife!

 

[soigne_west]

Yikes ... beautiful knife!

You’re a lot smarter that I. Last time I did something on a “WHIM’ I ended up married .... for the third time!

Should have bought a knife!

Yeah this is quite cheap compared to marriage. And you can’t sell your wife when your finished.

 

[M1k3]

Yeah this is quite cheap compared to marriage. And you can’t sell your wife when your finished.

Not legally anyway...

 

[Brian Weekley]

One of my favourite quotes came from a broker in the spring of 2009 ... he said “this financial meltdown is worse than my divorce ... I have half my money and I STILL have my wife”!

 

[AFKitchenknivesguy]

Forgot to add my latest jnat haul.
Ohiro Renge Suite

Another Ohiro Renge Suite

Nakayama Karasu Koppa

Nakayama Maruichi Kamasori

 

[jacko9]

Picked up a Watanabe Pro Stainless Clad Blue #2 210mm Gyuto and loving the feel of this knife. A few photo's and then a side by side with my Kato 210 Workhorse and my 210 Konosuke Fujiyama B#2. The Watanabe is close in size to the Kato and both are a little larger and weigh more than the Fuji.

 

[labor of love]

 

[M1k3]

Someone buy it for you or you buy it from one of the unlucky right-handers? Looks sweet though!

 

[panda]

Someone buy it for you or you buy it from one of the unlucky right-handers? Looks sweet though!

looks too thin

 

[labor of love]

Tin foil doesn’t have asymmetry. I think I’ll be fine.

 

[M1k3]

looks too thin

LOL I thinned my Takamura and Ikazuchi, after less than a week of using them...

 

[TSF415]

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Holy hell. How’s the blade road?

 

[Corradobrit1]

I bet thats the TF Mab. If you ask for thin they give you THIN.

 

[labor of love]

I bet thats the TF Mab. If you ask for thin they give you THIN

 

[Corradobrit1]

Called it.

Stop teasing. Lets see the rest.

 

[labor of love]

Called it.

Stop teasing. Lets see the rest.

Too tired from a long day of work to give you real photos.
Anyway...it’s 243mm x 54mm and about 30 grams lighter than my last TF. Surprisingly very straight blade.

 

[labor of love]

Holy hell. How’s the blade road?

Non existent.
I did cook a frozen pizza just now. TF cut it into 8 slices just fine.

 

[Corradobrit1]

Did you get someone to thin it for you or did TF do the mods on an existing blade? I'm sure the balance is real nice on that 240.

 

[labor of love]

Uh I bought it used from my handle guy. Pretty sure he just polished the road some himself but the thinness is attributed to TF.

 

[labor of love]

Dendro btw does great handlework. I’m not a flashy handle guy just something simple, clean, and comfortable. Can’t deal with stock watoyama d shape (I’m a lefty anyway). Bog Oak like this works for me every time.