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Charley, thank you for those kind words. I still take your razor out and caress it lovingly sometimes, though I don't have a good strop anymore and rarely straight shave.

Thanks for the welcome, guys!
Cudarunner, glad I could help.

ScottGoodman, I'm here, but it's a busy time man! Cut me some slack!



These have been eventful years! I had a son, bought a...

I'm Jim, I live in Japan, and I used to hang out here a lot.
So I haven't been on in a while, and thought I'd see how things are going around here.
Apart from the name change, I guess not too much...

I saw the same thing once, but I can't remember how I fixed it. Did you try closing it out of your iPhone's memory using the home-button double tap? That usually resets unsaved settings. I'll mess...

You can select the layout using the tabs at the top or icons at the bottom. It sounds like you accidentally touched the "forum" Icom at the bottomr, or the "all" tab at the top.

The whiskey will still be distilled and bottled in Scotland, so while it's sad that they're closing the factory in the original location, they're opening two more in Fife and Glasgow. Not the end of...

Hey, I was wrong once before! ;)

Looks like you got a great razor there, Kikuboshi is a top-notch name.

Kamisori means razor, ezpz is completely right. An electric razor is a denkikamisori, etc.

Those of us in the old fashioned razor game use wakamisori vs. seiyoukamisori (Japanese kamisori vs....

Denis,
Sorry i haven't replied yet.
Takashi (or is it Takeshi? Can't rememnber) is the guy in charge at Aframestokyo. It's not a language thing, he's using a very odd alternative reading for the...

Oh boy.

I've been trying to get this guy to grind out hollows for MONTHS. Maybe a year?

I've tried to hone at least a half dozen and not gotten a reasonable edge on a single one. If you do, let...

This might be of interest: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy-maximizing_behaviors

If you look under "Reviews" at the top of the page, you might find exactly what you are looking for.

I made a video of a basic hone test that I use when I go to a hone dealership. It's just a first impression kind of thing, but I thought people might find it interesting.

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I would very very seriously doubt that swordsmith Shigehisa Takehana owned a razor company. Looking at that blade, it says "Imported from Germany and stamped with our name" all over it. The gentle...

While I agree that the softness of a stone is not a direct indicator of particle size, it can have a direct effect on the edge produced by the particles. Basically, and i know I've said this many...

No one seems to use them, and most shops never carry them. I've been to hone/cutlery shops in Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Ehime, Fukuoka and more and the only Naniwa stones they ever have are the coarse...

Also, DaveW, shapton stones are apparently the market leaders in Japan. I have never seen anyone "trump them up" as "ritzy" but they are considered a serious professional brand, unlike King, the...

THe stones at the bottom of the page you linked are the Japanese "pro" stones, called "Ha no Kuromaku." Those are very good prices, considering the crappy exchange rate. The M5 stones are just very...

Run away! Those are used almost to death.

Media player classic plays darned near anything, and it's safe. I've used it for years with no spyware/malware problems. But if you can't get an mpeg to play on WMP, then I reckon you've got a faulty...

How sad, that's my wife's name...

HamburgO, it was not intended to be anything other than "what do we have around here I can put in the pot?" chili. Japan isn't big on the whole Tex-Mex cooking thing, so traditional pickings can be...

I recently made a pot of chili with azuki beans, bacon and wagyu. Call me an iconoclast if you will, but that stuff was freaking delicious.

Rudolf Schmidt made a stainless razor, and I have some Solingen razors with unclear makers that are marked Inox.

It is Tamahagane uchi. Not much else I can tell you.