I think so? Are you saying you now appreciate knives that have good overall design, and you are not focused on only sharpness like at the beginning? That a well designed knife can be sharpened with some skill, but it's very difficult to fix a badly designed knife even if it's sharp?Does it make sense?
I’m not even a year into the game... my first j knife was a k&s 240 ku mazaki I bought last March. It’s funny because I really wasn’t that impressed and then sold it after a month to fund a Tsubaya branded Y Tanaka 240 in aogami 1 that was too good of a deal to pass up from @marc4pt0. I wanted one of those wide bevel Tanaka ever since I began looking at j knives. I was innocently asking him about his favorite flavor of wide bevel Tanaka and he just offered me the tsubaya along with some great info. I have no regrets.
I agree, obviously... haha. I knew I had good knife tech, I knew the basics of sharpening... so why not start off with a nice one? Especially when I got such a sweet deal on that Y Tanaka.Great knives you got! Different trajectories for different people—I often cringe when people recommend cheaper, lower quality knives as ‘beginner J knives,’ ‘...good introductory J knife.’ Something to be said for striving for the best ASAP. In my first 2 years of buying J knives I bought Masamoto, Konosuke Fujiyama, Kato and Shig. That said, I’d been using Wustof and Sabs for a decades, felt like jumping the queue of bang for buck knives.
I agree, obviously... haha. I knew I had good knife tech, I knew the basics of sharpening... so why not start off with a nice one? Especially when I got such a sweet deal on that Y Tanaka.
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