Thread: Early Christmas present for my brother.

Sorry for the bad iPhone pic. I made this one for my younger brother. .110 AEB-L HT'ed to 61 or so by Peters. The blade profile is based on a JCK Carbonext gyuto that I bought a while back. Classic Franco-Japanese shape. The sweeping choil is similar to the Hattori "forum knife" series. 240mm cutting edge, around 50mm tall at the heel, Hybrid flat grind with a pretty good distal taper, well under .010 behind the edge at its thickest, thinner out toward the tip with a hand rubbed finish. Sharpened up badly on a 1000/6000 grit King and stropped with Smurf Poo on a "flesh side" leather strop I bought at Woodcraft. Stabilized amboyna burl handle scales with 300 series SS micro-corby bolts.

Looks good, didn't understand a word you said about it.

Bob

LOL. It's long, tall, kinda thin and hard and it was a pain in the backside to hand sand because, well, it is long, tall, kinda thin and hard. It most definitely do cut, but it could be better if a real honemeister got hold of it for a little while. I have figured out how to grind these durn things, but I need to work on learning how to properly sharpen them.

Originally Posted by BobH

Looks good, didn't understand a word you said about it.

Bob

When I saw the pic I thought the profile looked familiar, then I read the description. The knife looks great. .

Originally Posted by JDM61

LOL. It's long, tall, kinda thin and hard and it was a pain in the backside to hand sand because, well, it is long, tall, kinda thin and hard. It most definitely do cut, but it could be better if a real honemeister got hold of it for a little while. I have figured out how to grind these durn things, but I need to work on learning how to properly sharpen them.

Thanks for the layman's description. Still looks good though.

Bob

Originally Posted by mainaman

When I saw the pic I thought the profile looked familiar, then I read the description. The knife looks great. .

thanks. A lot of the western style Japanese knives are kind of a riff on the basic Sabatier shape so I figure that am just bringing some French culture over to the USA via the longer eastern route.