Quote Originally Posted by PigHog View Post
Just wrapped tightly. It's the same now as it was a year ago. I don't use it as much as I'd like to, though -- the edge has never felt quite right, no matter what I do with it. I want to send it for pro honing but haven't gotten around to it yet.
Hey PigHog! It darn near kills me that you don't shave with it. Maybe because I know exactly how you feel!

I too had a kami which I ended up rehandaling (used leather) only to find I couldn't hone it worth a bean. I did the three to one thing, I did... well I did all kinds of things that got close, but it always felt like I was shaving tree trunks.

Anyway I put it away for a year or so and then just recently, decided to go for it again. Using only Nani Superstones, I ran the blade very quickly back and forth on one side till it "felt right" then flipped and did the same thing. After that side felt right, I stropped it on the stone equally between sides for about 10/20 back and forths. Did that all the way up to 10 k spending almost as much time on the 1k as the others combined.

Then off to the strop and low and behold!!!! Butter!! Unorthodox maybe? But the shave... Oh the shave.

I know this works for mine as I just did it again after I got silly later on and tryed to put an even keener edge on it via a natural which ultimately killed the edge.

I hope that may help or at least encourage you to trytry again. I am so happy with my kami now, I have to force myself to use my other blades.

Do you have a picture of it from head on so we can see the bevels from that angle??

Best of luck mate!