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Hitoshi Kato-san
Congrats dude, that’s a beauty.
@dancing james. Strong stuff, enjoy.
Dragging this back to the Horl chat, I got a dose of FOMO and bought the no.2 and the 3000/6000 upgrade. Hmmm, I’m not convinced at all. I’ve tried it maybe five times now and it’s… ok I guess.
Even when I rush sharpening with the whetstone it’s significantly better than with this gizmo. I’ll persevere for a bit in case I’m missing something fundamental but if anyone wants to buy it, let me know 😂
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I bought the full set including the 3000 6000 upgrade.
For each knife I sharpied the edge (used a sharpie to colour it) and then went through each stone in turn, using the sharpie before each stone.
After I have gone through all the stones one final pass along each edge with the diamond standard stone removed the burr, then a quick strop. This stage isn’t shown in all the YouTube demonstrations but is essential in my experience.
Now I know all my knives are at a consistent angle I don’t have to go through the coarser stones to get a fine edge back, so it’s super quick and the results will shave arm or leg hairs with no problem and do a fine clean cut through paper. But it was only after I started doing the final single pass with the diamond standard that I was consistently impressed with the results.
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I'd probably be interested should @dancing james not have convinced you to stick with it
dancing james
Tenderloin
Visited Takefu today, met Hiroshi Kato-san (still forging at 81!) and couldn't help myself getting a nice little souvenir made by his apprentice Yoshimi-san. Can't wait to accidently hurt myself chopping some onions.