Yoshikane > Kato & Kamo

[madmotts]

I wanted to return to this discussion because my earlier posts might give someone the impression that that Yoshikane SKD Gyuto is a poor choice. I took the knife back to the retailer and we figured out what went wrong. I purchased their showroom display knife. They think the microchips were due to customer operator error. They offered to sharpen the knife for free. I got it back and it looks perfect and cuts perfectly. I'm looking forward to seeing how long that SKD retains its high level of sharpness.

I guess some new knives have a bit of tendency to microchip and are fine after an initial sharpening. Something to do with construction- someone in the forums will explain this. I've had a couple of knives where this happened and sure enough after a sharpening they haven't since.

I run my yoshi skds on balsa 1um and 0.5um strop for touch-up maintenance.