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Can't see why not? Give you a better idea than before of what's going at the very least if you're struggling!

Yeah probably, 60x loupe is going to show you plenty. This is an aogami 2 Higonokami averagely sharpened yesterday at 8x and 35x. Going up to 80x reveals microstructure better but you can see if you’re missing the edge at 35x

Should be fine if you're doing all that. I sharpened mine yesterday, and checked on microscope, despite vg10 edge being bit chipped and jaggedy at micro scale and in no way fully uniform its bloody sharp. Won't pop hairs, but will is and will remain sharp for months at normal use.

If based near bristol, welcome to use scope to check it out?

push cutting supermarket receipt and popping hairs sounds sharp so you must be on the cutting edge or very near, so seems weird that it fades so quickly.

Could you be creating a wire edge by sharpening predominantly away from direction of edge, or failing to remove it (give a go dragging through a cork after sharpening on 1k). Alternatively are you scraping edge along chopping boards etc (flip knife over and scrape cut veggies using heel instead)?

Sounds about right, but a bit off and you can just be polishing the bit next to the cutting edge (as I did countless times initially), rather than sharpening. Worth trying a bit more acute to see if you can properly raise a burr?
W2 is tool steel right? So may take a little while longer, but even with 1000 won’t take hours, just apply right pressure at right angle.

You sharpening at angle of main “v” angle of knife or the secondary bevel which makes the cutting edge?

Just treated us to this little santoku

https://www.chefslocker.co.uk/store/p398/seisuke-santoku-140mm.html

no idea who actually makes them, but will be useful for little tasks at home and given its aogami super, should get pretty sharp and be fun to use!

Beaut. Older bars have longer reach so a nice stiff (for a quill) 130 stem should sort you out fine?

Looking for a set of boots for winter. Ideally uk made, and ones that will last.

I like the hebtroco moto boots, but also loake Kirkbys/Niro style. Anybody bought a set and have experience in long term durability/break in time?

Prototype stooge from looks of it

British obstetrician Grantly Dick-Read

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/355971441486?­

Seems cheap for a strael

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/355971441486?

Seems cheap for a strael

ah gotcha

Even vs the bigger hybrid ones?

Trying to think ahead to next year. Wildflower patch did ok, mainly musk mallow, but will take and reseed. Also going to plant some bulbs under for a bit of growth in spring.

We have a lot of shady beds in our garden as east facing, which are currently pretty overrun by hybrid bluebells. I’d like to replace them with a woodland mix of anemones, native bluebells, snowdrops etc as well as some shade loving plants like hemp agrimony, tiarella and hellebore - is the best and easiest way to manage to just pull up leaves as they come up or is it necessary to dig the hybrids out?

Sawflies laid earlier in the year have certainly been busy!

Get two

Explored a new bit of the frome today further up from where I normally go. Really lovely but river properly on its bones.

#5, so you can put your nocturnal outbuilding exploration gear away for the moment. Casts a #4 snowbee DT nicely though, on an equally battered old marquis reel.

edit - will take it out this weekend if i get time, so please no pinching before then.

Amazing, ideal as this is an old palakona Hardy!

Looking forward to a 2025 tdf domestique Yates-off.

Also on the subject of old rods, i've got a really lovely little 6'10 cane rod from the 1960s that my mum's friend left me when he passed away. He taught me to fly fish with it and i caught my first trout on it age 9 or so.

I stupidly left it in the shed over the winter and the tip ring has corroded a little. All the other guides are fine, and it's probably ok for the moment but could cut up the fly line in due course. Any idea how to replace it? I know on graphite rods you just use hot melt glue but not sure what the deal is with cane?

That’s a lots of kebab for Kamala

Some ladybird larvae on (slightly belated) hop protection duty