Postal man just delivered the first two of the rehandled knives :) Aritsugu A-Type 270mm Gyuto and Watanabe Ko-Deba. Basically I just got two new knives. What a treat! Dave (JapaneseKnifeSharpening.com) also cleaned up the back side of the Aritsugu and polished the edge with CrO, so it looks simply gorgeous. Photos are coming soon, very soon :)
Thursday, September 3, 2009 21:44:17
Chris showed up, the creator of the light. We've discussed few things and I'll be sending in the light for some reworking and LED upgrade :) It's been a long time favorite of mine, so why not, LED industry has come long way during last few years.
Thursday, September 3, 2009 13:06:05
Fixed blade section, with precise details on the composite blade construction. Before, I've assumed it was san-mai, but no, different technology. Details in the review.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 22:50:52
Fixed the guestbook signing functionality for both zvis.com and zknives.com. After moving to PHP5 there was leftover obsolete code.
Monday, August 31, 2009 18:11:42
Complete preliminary review is up. It's still missing a lot of use data I've accumulated so far, but I need time to get through all the notes and systematize data, plus few more tests to conduct. However, the important stuff about the knife, its parameters and such is there.
Sunday, August 30, 2009 22:07:43
Dave Martell, that'd be the guy behind Japanese Knife Sharpening, the real sharpening guru and oracle, has a blog for his place now. If you are into sharpening, knives and all that then it's for you.
Thursday, August 27, 2009 21:42:47
Just talked to Phil Wilson :) Both M2 Nimravi are going for re-hardening to him. I got nothign short of an excellent from the previous rehardening of BM 710 HSSR blades and this one will be a match. In the blade like that M2 does deserve 64HRC or higher. Most likely one of the Nimravi will get blade regrind from Phil too. Talk about super cutters there.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 21:30:24
Updated outdated pix, regenerated icons, added copyright, some new stuff, etc.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 21:24:53
2 more knivese sent for rehandling
Just packed up Watanabe Miroshi Deba and Aritsugu Kamagata Usuba and sending to Dave Martell tomorrow morning first thing. New handles are of course form Stefan Keller. Really nice handles those very good blades deserve.
Monday, August 24, 2009 23:20:42
Tojiro Hammer Finish line
Tojiro knives just introduced hammer finish line. Looks pretty much like Kumagoro hammer Finish gyuto on this pic attached here. I was hoping it was Aogami steel, at high hardness,s alas I was wrong. it's one of their budget lines.
Saturday, August 22, 2009 22:32:01