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By the way, I think I have reached the jnat saturation point. I've got a major wood project coming up...those tend to reignite my passion for alternate honing implements. Still bothers me that the...

Yeah, I've been REAL busy!

Ooookay.....an update. I have fought and fought and fought with this blade on different hones until....

I won. I'm not sure what finally happened but, it's shaving great now. Go figure.

This doesn't appear to be the case. I am intimately familiar with the design/construction of laminated Japanese edge tools. This does not appear to be a laminated blade. Also, when I tried to...

Note on the post above. I am texting in the airport and fighting with Samsung autocorrect. Should say I did 100 strokes, shaved, dulled, did another 100 and shaved.
The result would seem to...

Progress, sort of. Yesterday i switched to a "known good gone" and relentlessly went after it. I did one round with a"sweeping" stroke as shown and shaved, then I styles it and did straight up...

Hmmm....the only thing that makes me question this is that when I was using the DMT stone, I got a very definite burr along each side. And, I could feel that burr progress from the middle out on one...

Rezdog, thanks. But I THINK I got all the smile out of it? Am I wrong?

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Two important ideas here:

1. I have JORCO that has PRECISELY this same issue with bent spine geometry. It bevel set the same way, and shaves beautifully.

2. ...

I bought a less expensive (at a cnote, I won't say 'cheap') kamisori with a western grind. As soon as the enveloped arrived, I tossed in a back pack and went hunting for a few days. I figured I'd...