Knife porn thread

I'm looking at this kit, does it look similar?

that's the same as the one I've borrowed, yeah.

except the one you linked has two additional stones.

Cheers, will order that, don't think I will be able to clamp my 1 inch long keyring knife in it...

it won't work with very short and narrow blades as you'll just end up filing the end of the clamp jaws.

Yes, figured that. Would be good if it could sharpen my 10cm paring knife, but not the end of world if I have to do them freehand.

It will, it does perfectly decent job on mine!

Ah glad it worked for you.

Yep, what you’ve said is basically what I’d suggest it’s best for, get the blade edge going again and then finish off with steel/stone etc.

I think my one doesn’t have the finest pad, I realised after I’d dropped it off I have another in the knife drawer (sorry!)

That arrived so fast, very elegant thing... Like it...

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Happy with the edge on this, a couple of goes with the Lansky and finished on a very fine whetstone:

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I think I'm brave enough to have a go at the Wusthof santuko now.

Btw, I'm loving the little paring knife, after initially being underwhelmed by it.

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That Gyuto is mega!

Yeah, it's awesome.

Not used it yet, other than to amuse myself with paper cuts.

Cooking tonight; will be interested in how I find it. The profile is a lot straighter than my other knives.

Santuko is proper sharp now. It's taken a better edge that the Sainsbury's knife.

Push cut everything.

I’ve been having fun push cutting with the cleaver as drawing the tip towards me for accurate cuts.

See my post and comments with about the lansky holder.

Naniwa sharpening stones finally arrived. Practiced on knackered to fuck henckel - it's far more stabby than its was, but still has nicks to be dealt with.

To YouTube's!

Yeah, it's awesome.

Sharp knives are lovely.

Blunt knives cause injuries.

Think you have to live with the nicks, unless you take alot off the blade past the nicks.

Nice lineup shot :)

Most of my knives are packed up. At the new house im insisting on a nice magnetic wooden knife rack

The number of other priority projects has just leaped up, so my paring knife will be on the back burner for the foreseeable future. Only change is getting closer to the bolster profiling.

Probably should have used a dremel to take the bulk of it down to save on filing. At this stage I'm too nervous to use it until I get back to the body.

As I'm using this thread as a bit of a project log here is where I've got to:

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What is the coloured material inbetween the scales?

I'll have a hunt in my order history, but they're specific scale liners. I think they're some sort of paper, but when cut you get a clean almost shiny plasticy edge.

@moocher

1 x Spacer-Vulcanized Candy Apple Red 5" x 10" (SPR05X10R) = $2.50
1 x Spacer-Vulcanized Black 5" x 12" (SPR08BL) = $2.00

from https://www.texasknife.com/vcom/index.php

How do people go about sharpening multi tool knives? I have a Gerber centre drive that I use at work frequently which needs some attention.
I'm a novice at sharpening beyond running a shit kitchen knife through a series of courseness things on a tesco sharpening gizmo.

Also, my kitchen knives are terrible, but I'm prepared to invest time in learning to sharpen - what would be a good (forgiving and relatively cheap) chef knife/ stones to get going with?