Knife porn thread

Arrived today, so beautiful...

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I’m thinking about getting one of these for my father in law. Is it any good? Would you go classic or ultimate?

V nice how does it feel to use ?

I'll let you know when I get a chance to use it... Had a new bed delivered today so I've been dismantling the old one and putting the new one together... Takeaway for dinner! The weight is lovely tho', it's such a beautiful object... Very easy to fetishize, like most Japanese stuff... 🤓

I have Classic and I think it's excellent. The ultimate looks good too. Given the price differences I think I'd stick with the classic.

i know its all individual as to how it feels in the hand, but you know when a knife feels lightweight and crappy. Looks lovely mind ya fingers :0

Great thanks. Might get one for me too...

If you do much in the garden or an allotment they're well worth it.

Beautiful, have exactly the same knife from my grandad. Cleaned it up and sharpened it a while back, great Sheffield made blade

Anyone got a little Opinel or similar they'd part with? Want a wee mushroom knife but I don't really want to give Amazon any money.

I might do

I've probably got an unopened no.8 inox somewhere.

The pitting knife at Heinne looks good & is my next kn+1 fwiw. https://heinnie.com/opinel-pitting-knife/

Anyone have a recommendation for a fine set of cutlery for cheese?

Fine? Laguiole. Bit pricey.

Robert Welch do a set for about £85. We've had their kitchen knives for a decade and I do rate them.

Keep in mind it's cheese. You don't need razor sharpness. Lower cost options will work just as well.

Was looking at that. Should probably ask for it for my Christmas really.

The one I have spare is a No. 8 with a slightly crooked tip.
You can have it for some postage if you want to reshape/grind down?
Perfectly functional as it is though.

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Japanese Nata as a Christmas gift - toying between the niwaki rope handled one or the Silky. Niwaki wins on appearances but doesn’t have a sheath that attaches to a belt, niwaki has a better sheath.

Any thoughts.

A very generous offer, but I think I'd want something slightly smaller.

Want a proper mushroom knife as the blade shape is different, and comes with a brush too. https://heinnie.com/opinel-mushroom-knife-gift-box-no-8

Undecided if I should keep or sell mine as I'm not going mushrooming anytime soon.

Hello

Is it a stainless or carbon? Do you think it could be reshaped in to an opinel garden or oyster shellfish knife?

https://www.opinel.com/en/table-steak-knife/cheese-set/cheese-set-knife-fork and customisable too.

None of that eating off the knife.

Its stainless.
The warp is only 3mm or so at the tip, so I was thinking of grinding it down to a different shape anyway. The tip is somewhat delicate, I can't remember how I bent it, probably using it for some DIY job that it was definitely not suited for.

Been using it as box/letter opener.

Ah so do you think that the garden/oyster shellfish knives are thicker/stronger?

The no. 8 is fairly easy to snap, I've broken a few over the years (I should really have learnt to be honest). I'm sure the oyster knife would be stronger.

I've not found that, but then I maybe a bit more precious with mine.