Hiho!
little update on my santoku.
It was not really sharp out of the box (i had trouble cutting any hair on my arm), but thats just perfect for me, since i bought this Shirogami workhorse for grind-erama 3000 action on my stones...
well i was not disappointed :wink: .. full jns 1k, red aoto and 6k and then ohira aka renge suita and ohira ao renge suita and now its cutting awesome!
also cleaned it with nail lacquer remover before and gave it some polishing fleece and used the jnat mud for polishing the sides..
Its just for the first sharpening and i dondt give anything about a super finish.. i can make a nice nail stripe scratch finish anytime if i wreck anything, so it was just first try to get it sharp (because i was hungry and wanted to cook with the new knife
) )
the grind i put on it was my favorite convex grind (german "ballig" style without sauerkraut patina) with something between nothing and about 10 degrees woth lots of angle shaking
and as much stone contact on the sides as possible.. also a microphase after every stone. looks weird but works awesome for me.
now i am really happy with one of my first workhorse knifes and the weight of 142 gramms on a 180mm santoku is very nice with good balance.
well its not a laser like my rest but thats why i bought it and i like it!
on the rough stones the steel felt really hard!! i needed more force and time than with srs-15 or aogami super stuff.. sharpening it on jnats was very nice of course
also gave the handle some micromesh love and waxing (olive oil beewax wonder stuff i also use on my cuttingboards and on any handle)
its rustic looking the edges were a bit pointed but i love to bevel them with micromesh myself
So made some fotos after the grinding.
you can find much more here (also the pictures from cleancut):
http://imgur.com/a/dqgSK
best regards, daniel! definetly a keeper