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12-10-2010, 10:06 PM #1
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12-11-2010, 03:45 AM #2
This actually makes sense. With a larger piece of steel you can watch how the stone cuts metal. Wider surface area, more to see. It doesn't tell you how it will be for razors but is just a performance gauge in general. I did this on Thanksgiving actually, sharpened up my humble Carter knife for bird carving, whoa! Completely changed the way I think about this stone.
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12-11-2010, 04:12 AM #3
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12-11-2010, 05:09 AM #4
Yes but I'm beginning to understand why there are those among us so reluctant to put a grit rating on naturals. They don't act the same as synthetics do IME. The feedback is instructive as get out, the stone teaches me how to use it, making different sounds depending on how it is cutting metal, color of slurry etc.,. The stone speaks.
The same is true of gut strings. I find gut strings to have many pitch/speed limitations, but can speak more richly than steel strings. Rodney Greene is a drummer here in NYC that I particularly enjoy listening to and he uses real animal skin drum heads (despite similar gut pitch and humidity characteristics not present in synthetic drum heads). I asked him about it and he said, "...You gotta get God involved".
I agree, I digress.
You're right, it was a fleeting edge but boy was it every bit as shave ready- after maybe 10-20 strokes. Cut right through the bird and the foil pan FWIW, my crap knife skills notwithstanding. Getting my knife shave ready is possibly pointless yet, practice just the same.
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12-11-2010, 08:17 AM #5
Justin, you make me happy and Jello all at once. I see my piece of eastern steel is gonna be greeted by the right welcoming party.
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12-11-2010, 10:20 AM #6
Kitchen knife Shave Ready Ya but after a few days that edge was toast on the boards. I put the edge back down to 8k and it's much happier
12-15-2010, 05:07 AM
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Great thread. Thanks for posting and sharing your jnat journey. I am interested in knowing how to acquire tenjou, mejiro and koma nagura stones as well as hones. I really like the ones that Justin has purchased.