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OK, so I apparently TOTALLY screwed up that translation, and only know have the sharp eyes of a couple of our members caught it. I think it's not my fault, because I've never, ever done anything...

OK, so poking around the interwebs I stumbled across this page. It appears to be a very, VERY detailed explanation of all things Kamisori, including diagrams, bevel setting theory, etc. But it's 19...

Yeah, it did seem pretty incomplete to me...but it's the only other one I found. I took out some pictures to keep it inside the "7 image limit" but all of the text is intact.

One other odd...

Here's another translation. This one is from the Jumi Knife Shop. It purports to be from Ryoichi Mizuochi. Note that there is no mention of pressure or rations.
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Thanks Zeth. I appreciate it....and for those who can read the Japanese, please feel free to critique. I'm not at all confident in every word. I do think I got the meaning across, with some spin...

Thanks for your compliment. I've done quite a bit of translation work from German and Old English, this was my first attempt at Japanese...it's all in the dictionary. ;)

Well, he just said make...

You know, I myself am not exactly sure, but I think you've got the ratios backward. Concave side down 7, flat/wedge 3...

As I said in another thread, I was recently told by a barber not to hone...

You're welcome for the translation. As for the other questions, I can't tell you. I don't have a TI or Dovo, but my gut tells me that yes indeedy, they can get as sharp as anything around.

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Kevin, I found this same information totally independently from your post...here's the link from Ehamono. I made my own translation--I would be happy to post it, but I wouldn't say it's...