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Nowhere near done but it's starting to look good from a distance. This is at 2k Naniwa Kagayaki.
First attempt at polishing ironclad carbon in about 3 years.
This one's a Shigehiro 210 gyuto forged by Yoshikazu Ikeda and sharpened by Kasahara. Came with a nice hazy polish on the cladding that's somewhere between 3-5k. The knife was a bit chubby behind the edge so I thinned it a bit and straightened up the secondary bevel and moved that up to ~3-5mm above the cladding line, then rounded the shoulder. Basically tried to move up the convexing a bit further up the blade. Then hit this all over with a muddy Hideriyama from JNS that left the iron matte white and the steel hazy. After that, I hit a tip with my softest uchi, which left the whitened up the matt cladding and shined up the core a bit.
Unfortunately, that uchi also started spitting out some crunchy bits so moved on to testing the handful of suita's I have with varying results. My Ohira's shined up the core and whitened up the cladding in a pretty nice way, but this Mystery Suita from the JapanStone got a lot closer to mirror on the cladding, started to really mirror the core and got me closer to contrast level I was looking for. Saving the best for last, I busted out another mystery suita with telltale signs of being a Nakayama (bought here from Brooksie). Definitely saved the best for last and this stone got me closer to the mirror core I was looking for and a nice pop on the cladding line. This stone also revealed a bit of a shadow line above the cladding line in some places and left a darker, wetter look on the cladding. Then hit above the shinogi with a uchi fingerstone then rubbed it down with a felt pad loaded up with the mud from the last suita, which dialed down the matte look and turned it a bit darker and glossier looking.
Watcha guys think? Wish I had something better than my phone camera but hopefully good enough for you guys to see how this ended up.View attachment 85531
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Its my Bazes, you can see past polish jobs a few pages back, but this is superior results. thanks!Nakayama = magic! What knife is that?
FK! Knife envy levels are really high right now.Havent had alot of time to work on stuff like this lately, but managed to polish up my Kato Kikuryu.
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Part 1 of my project Deba,
Start grinding the Hira by using Naniwa Lobster/Traditional 220, Shapton Glass 220, Morihei Hi 500, King Hyper 1000, Aizu and weird Uchigumori. Uraoshi sharpening using Chosera 3000 then Morihei Hi 6000.
AH yes The Kireha... Bevel. Hira is the face right? I confused with the Japanese word. I will be Polishing the face as well as the next step.I don't thing you did the hira with those stones, maybe you meant the kireha/bevel?
YepAH yes The Kireha... Bevel. Hira is the face right? I confused with the Japanese word. I will be Polishing the face as well as the next step.
Havent had alot of time to work on stuff like this lately, but managed to polish up my Kato Kikuryu.
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Here is my current work in process. Decided to tackle my Higonokami pocket knife. Been putting this off since it was a large project.
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Still needs some work. Didn't get my lower grits dialed near the pivot thingy. To be continued.....
I have the aogami in the 5cm and 30cm. Those prices seem a bit high. I got the 5 cm for about 20usd and the 30cm for about 35 usd. The small one was dull but the 30cm was pretty sharp. That being said I took it to the stones immediately. Did you sharpen the whole bevel? Meaning putting the whole bevel flat on the stone? It took me a while to thin out the low spots but once I did it got screaming sharp. I also put a microbevel on it. I think it’s good for the price I got it for. I just use it mostly to break down cardboard boxes.
And I know what you mean about the rough spot near the handle. It’s hard to get to that area with the stone
Nutmeg, any tips you could give me based on the pics above as to how to increase the contrast or how to brighten up the mirror? I was thinking of getting the Jinzo Aoto from JKI, but I'm more inclined to think that the problem is my technique than the tools.
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