tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47669862953545400672024-03-13T10:05:51.141-07:00WabochoJapanese knife sharpening, repair and handle replacement service.
WWW.WABOCHO.COMGrzegorz Golahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00114536744950977193noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766986295354540067.post-88982704034827685642019-06-19T14:04:00.004-07:002019-06-19T14:24:54.322-07:00Unknown deba restoration.Hello guys,<br />
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Long time no see. I just have noticed that I didn't post anything since December, however, I have started a few posts. I am sorry guys, but recently I really don't have time to write anything and when I do, then I prefer to spend time on my other hobbies. In January this year, I have been to Poland to participate in a knife sharpening and repair workshops, as a host. These workshops had the same name as my facebook group: ''Z nożem przez kuchnię'', however, they have been organised by Michał Sadko, a knifemaker from Poland. Probably I will make a post about it because it was fun and well worth it to be there. One of the guys who has participated in that event has shown me a very damaged Deba knife. He is a sushi chef and got that knife from a restaurant which was decommissioned. He sent it to one of the sharpening services in Poland and when he got it bad he was very disappointed. His new, old knife which was already in a very bad condition has been sharpened on both sides. Now, after almost half year, I have talked to both of them and I know the story of this knife and that is the reason why I will not blame anyone for the condition of the blade and the way it was sharpened. Before, nobody was taking care of this knife and it was mostly used as a cleaver to chop off the head of the fish, and I am pretty sure that it was hardcore decapitating. This is the main reason for double-sided sharpening. When I saw it for the first time, I have decided to repair it for free, mostly because I was angry with the guy who sharpened it. Unfortunately, we have two different philosophies about knives and I explained to him many times that it is not acceptable to sharpen single bevels like he does. Anyways... I don't care now. All I wanted to do is to find some time to repair this knife.<br />
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When I was working with knives before, I could do such things quite quickly, but now it took me almost half a year and the blade was mostly hanging on my magnetic strip in my kitchen. The owner of the knife applied to a Sushi Championship in Poland and he asked me if that knife could be ready for that event. I tried my best and managed to repair that knife and even did a little extra. Let me explain what I did.<br />
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Here is the knife exactly as I got it:<br />
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The picture below represents how bad the situation is. You can clearly see the huge bevel on the back side.<br />
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I am sure, that the very first thing you have noticed is the back of the knife - ''ura''. This knife has a bevel on both sides. Let me make it clear why this way of sharpening is a big mistake and why nobody should do that:<br />
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<li>This is a single bevel knife. It was designed in a very specific way and this construction is needed to perform special techniques which were thought for this knife.</li>
<li>Single bevel knives are easy to maintain if they are sharpened properly and on a regular basis.</li>
<li>It is crucial to keep back of the knife flat. Otherwise, you will change the centre point of the knife (which is already off-centred) and every time when you sharpen it again you will change that centre point. Maybe you won't notice that on the deba knife, but do that on yanagiba or usuba and these knives will become almost unusable.</li>
<li>Every time you sharpen back of the knife you will make the bevel bigger and the problem will rise to the point where there won't be a way back. Also sharpening will become harder and harder.</li>
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That was the plan to repair that knife:<br />
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<li>Clean the blade and check the condition of the whole knife</li>
<li> Repair the back of the knife</li>
<li>Repair the bevel on the front</li>
<li>Clean, re-sand and polish the flat area on the front</li>
<li>Sharpen and polish the bevel</li>
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Everything above was the basic plan, but I did a little extra. Let's start then.<br />
I don't like to waste my time and I knew that I have a lot of material to remove in order to make the back flat, so I have used some 80 grit corundum powder on a diamond plate.<br />
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As always, I have covered the blade with a marker pen to see what is happening. After some time of flattening the back, I could see how far I have to go. That back bevel was huge.<br />
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Take a look at the picture below. I had to remove a lot of material on the ''ura'' side and even then, the bevel was still visible.<br />
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Next was the time to work on the front of the knife. I knew that I will have to repair the edge, make it even and then to recreate the whole bevel, so I raised the angle to 60 - 70 degrees to remove steel quickly.<br />
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The burr that was going out from the edge was enormous.<br />
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I have polished the back to 8k on the Shapton Pro and sharpened it, so from that point the knife was usable and I was able to focus on making it nice.<br />
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Now you can compare these two pictures. It is still not very good on the back, but it is possible to sharpen that deba in the traditional way. My next step was restoring the bevel on the front and making hamaguriba as well as repair the ura.<br />
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Let's fix the ura. This is a tricky part, especially if you don't have a 40 or 70'' Japanese grinding wheel or radius platen. I have only 6'' and 10'' contact wheel and this is definitely not enough. I am not saying that it is not possible, but without experience, things may go wrong.<br />
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The picture below shows ura after the first session of grinding. Parts which has contact with sharpening stones are very uneven, but I will try to make it as even as I can.<br />
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Session #2: It looks a little better. I think that I have touched the flat part near the spine next to the tip of the blade.<br />
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Here it is after the last session. From that point, I will do it manually.<br />
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I know that I said that I will do it manually, but I was really annoyed by the fact that the surfaces that have contact with the stone were too wide, so I decided to use the Dremel tool to make them narrower. Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures from that part of the repair.<br />
Dremel has left very deep and very ugly dips. I had to make everything even, remove the scratches and obviously hollows left by the Dremel. In order to do that I have used ura fixers. I don't know their grit. All I remember is that it took ages to finish...<br />
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As the ura was almost fixed, I could take care of the front of the knife. I really don't understand what happened to this knife and what the previous sharpener had in his mind, but I could see the consequences straight away. To make it easier for you, I drew the line exactly on the scratch pattern edge. I don't know how previous guys sharpened it, but I definitely couldn't repeat it.<br />
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Here it is after the first ''hardcore'' session on the stones. I tried to straighten the shinogi line. You can clearly see how uneven was the edge.<br />
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This is the point were ''hamaguriba'' in front and ''ura'' were restored to a very usable point.<br />
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I was quite annoyed by the scratch pattern on the flat part above the shinogi, so I decided to clean it and polish it. It was quite easy because there is no kanji on this knife. I know that this part of the blade is made on the circular grinding wheel and it is concaved, so I used a diamond plate to make it flat and to make my work easier. Also, I removed the handle to make everything more accessible.<br />
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That old handle is the ugliest handle I have ever seen. Also, it lost a ferrule.<br />
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I have started with 120 grit diamond plate. As you can notice, there is a huge low spot near the spine.<br />
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The picture below shows that part of a knife after 120 grit diamond plate. After that it was followed by 400 diamond, Naniwa Chosera 1k, Maruoyama Shiro Suita and then, just before finishing everything, I have used Shiki Uchigumori powder.<br />
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I have cleaned and polished the back with some finger stones.<br />
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That's all. I am very happy that after such a long time I have managed to repair that knife. It took me a long time, but this is due to my new job, hobbies and lack of time. I have a few postponed posts and I promise that I will try to write more on my blog and post the old stuff. </div>
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When I took that knife from the current owner, I didn't promise him anything. I just said that I will repair it. However, after putting all that effort into that knife I thought, that it will be nice if I will do something extra. That is why I made a handle, matching saya and box. Handle and saya are made from oak found in the bin at work and ferrule is made out of american walnut. The box is made from ash which was found in the bin as well. Unfortunately, it was already quite late and I had to pack this knife and send it, so I wasn't able to take better pictures. I hope that you enjoy it.</div>
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<span id="goog_4891517"></span><span id="goog_4891518"></span>Grzegorz Golahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00114536744950977193noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766986295354540067.post-41635496055193630332018-12-10T15:44:00.002-08:002021-08-01T13:21:53.571-07:00The biggest adventure of my life - Final words and the show (Part 9)So this is the end of my story. I really hope that you have managed to go through all of that. The worst part of my story is that now, I have to translate everything that you read to Polish and post it on Polish websites.<br />
My journey to Japan was definitely the biggest adventure of my life. It was a little bit scary at the beginning, especially that I have never had any ''in front of the camera'' experience. It was very emotional, starting from uncertainty at the beginning, stress in the middle and a lot of joy and excitement. I was moved and in tears of happiness a couple of times. I had a lot of laugh with the tv crew as well as my hosts. Don't forget that it was also hard work because we had to wake up early every day, travel and record everything. I have learned a lot and definitely saw things that I wouldn't be able to see while normal travel. I think that I was very lucky with this programme. I have asked my director Yoda San what does he think about the whole programme and he said that he don't know what to do with the whole material. We really had tens of hours of material and he had to squeeze that into 1-hour programme. Fortunately for me, I got two episodes and this is really rare. I came back with a bag full of gifts from Japan.<br />
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I will not keep you any longer here. Please watch my show on the link below. The second part is only 20 minutes at the very beginning.<br />
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<br />Grzegorz Golahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00114536744950977193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766986295354540067.post-68265906144378294722018-12-10T15:43:00.000-08:002018-12-10T15:43:46.801-08:00 The biggest adventure of my life - Tokyo ( Part 8)We have finished filming in Kameoka and went to Tokyo by Shinkansen. The producers were kind enough to book me a hotel for 2 nights in a walking distance from their headquarters and Tokyo tower. I had a week for myself and I didn't plan anything special for that time, except for sightseeing and taking photos. Here is a little spam of photos, but if you want to see more check this link:<br />
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These are not all pictures I have taken in Japan. I came back with approx 5000 pictures and I had to go through them, edit etc. It took me a lot of time and I didn't finish till today.<br />
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<i>Tokyo Tower</i><br />
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<span id="goog_1507796199"></span><span id="goog_1507796200"></span><br />Grzegorz Golahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00114536744950977193noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766986295354540067.post-1282760245668028232018-12-10T15:41:00.002-08:002018-12-10T15:41:39.929-08:00 The biggest adventure of my life - Maruoyama, Kameoka (Part 7)We spent the last two days in Kameoka in Tushihachi San house and mine. I had a lot of time to play with different stones because the tv crew went back to the mine to take some extra shots. There was a lot happening so I will just spam some pictures:<br />
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Tushihashi and his family live in a beautiful place surrounded by the mountains. It is extremely quiet and you can hear the birds singing. Amazing!!!<br />
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Tushihashi San invited me to his home. The very first thing I have noticed was a huge stone from Maruoyama.<br />
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Then, he has shown me his private collection of ''Tennen Toishi'' which was in the next room.<br />
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The big stone was so heavy that I needed a help with carrying it. Some of these stones are very unique, mined generations ago and obviously not for sale.<br />
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I had a lot of time to test some stones...<br />
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And obviously, we had to cut some tomatoes:D<br />
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I could also cut and prepare some stones with Jouzo.<br />
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After cutting, stones are roughly polished and evened in the special machine.<br />
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Me and an approximately 1000 years old cedar.<br />
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When I thought that I have seen all stones possible, I have entered the kitchen and found that:<br />
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Of course, there was a final dinner. We had sukiyaki, wagyu and a lot of good stuff:D<br />
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<i>Tushihashi San family and friends</i><br />
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At the end of the next day, Tushihashi San gave me wonderful gifts. I got full-size Maruoyama Shiro Suita. It weighs 1.6kg. Also, he gave me a beautiful book and small Maruoyama Shiki Uchigumori.<br />
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One of Youzou Tushihashi's guests gave me adzuki. This is 1% of the best-picked beans from Kameoka. Such a wonderful gift!!!<br />
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The very last shot!!! I have to admit that I was very happy that we have finished. I was tired, excited, happy and sad at the same time. Sad, because I had to leave these wonderful people.<br />
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I had a wonderful time in Kameoka. I have learned a lot and met very special people who will always stay in my heart. I can't be thankful enough for everything they have done for me, their hospitality and obviously special, ''very expensive'' gifts. I will really miss Youzou Tushihashi, his wife Sayuri. and obviously Kameoka.</div>
Grzegorz Golahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00114536744950977193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766986295354540067.post-11871542938383549692018-12-10T15:41:00.000-08:002018-12-10T15:41:12.336-08:00The biggest adventure of my life - Free day (Part 6)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Sunday was a free day. At this time we were in Kyoto and Yoda San said that we can do whatever I want. I told him that we can have a proper sleep and then we can go somewhere to take some photos and chill. We went to a very old district called Gion. It is beautiful. I had a wonderful day and I took some of my favourite photos.</div>
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<br />Grzegorz Golahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00114536744950977193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766986295354540067.post-33126660265434671402018-12-10T15:40:00.003-08:002018-12-13T13:53:50.198-08:00The biggest adventure of my life - Shunichi Tahara (Part 5)Welcome to part 5.<br />
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On the very next day, after the visit to Osaka, we came back to Sakai and have visited Shunichi Tahara. Tahara San is a knife sharpener and grinder with 55 years of experience. His family is doing that for 110 years. This is something that you just cannot pass incuriously. I have realised my dream because I always wanted to see this kind of workshop with big grinding wheels. Tahara San workshop is very small and we had problems to accumulate all of us. There was even a time when there was no space for my translator Jim and I didn't understand what Tahara San was saying.<br />
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Tahara San in action. It only looks easy when he is doing that, but I have quickly realised that it is a hard work and that you must be focused all the time.<br />
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It was a very interesting experience. I could feel a pain in my back after a very short time. This position is very uncomfortable if the wheel is not adjusted properly to your height.</div>
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This is the last step of grinding before ''Kasumi¶ shiage''. Tahara San told me that it is very hard to get these wooden wheels because this craft is slowly disappearing and there are not too many companies which are making these wheels.<br />
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In the meantime, we went to a beautiful place, which is only 5 minutes walk from Tahara San workshop. There were a small brook and blossom cherries on both sides. The view was breathtaking. I could see many people, including whole families, a group of friends or single people having lunch. Tahara San and I sat on the stairs and had a lunch prepared by his wife. Obviously, we were recorded and everybody was staring at us, which was awkward. We had a little chat and later we came back to his workshop.<br />
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This is a single bevel santoku I have forged in Emani Tadashi forge and then ground in Shunichi Tahara workshop. I am proud. I have made mistakes in both situations and this knife is too thin, but it is still usable.<br />
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At the end of the day, I have shown my master my knife which I brought from home. He was very pleased with it. He gave me a few fantastic gifts. I got the knife I have made and a straightening stick, exactly same as the one he is using. On top of that, I got some stones, which supposed to be crushed in mortar for polishing powder. I have made few fingerstones out of it.<br />
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Grzegorz Golahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00114536744950977193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766986295354540067.post-39422388976836216582018-12-10T15:40:00.001-08:002018-12-10T15:40:22.757-08:00The biggest adventure of my life - Sakai Hamono Museum and Nunoya.... (Part 4)Hi and welcome in part 4 of my story. Straight after my visit to Tadashi San workshop,¶ we went to Sakai Hamono Museum. The museum itself was on the first floor and it wasn't very big. There were different kinds of Japanese kitchen knives in the showcases hung on the walls and a lot of knives for sale in the middle. The museum, as every museum in the world, is just a museum and there is not much to say about it. However, there was a funny situation. When I was admiring some of the blades, Yoda San told me that someone will come to me in a second. I think that they've mentioned that it will be a director of the museum. Of course, the tv crew wanted to record that conversation and I was quite excited because there were few knives that I have never seen before and I wanted to ask someone about them. After a short introduction, I have asked that person about one knife which I have seen on the wall. He was thinking for a bit and then he said that he is not sure and that he will be back in a second. Then, I have realized that he wasn't the director and to be honest I don't have a clue who he was. He came back after a short time, told me what I wanted to know and probably didn't expect another question, which I asked straight away. Again, he wasn't sure and he went somewhere to ask. At this point, I knew that recording that was pointless and I gave my crew a sign that we should be not recording that. That was the end of a day. On our way back to the hotel we stopped again in Tadashi San workshop and he gave me the same shirt that he was wearing. I really like it:D<br />
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On the very next day, we came back to the museum. The tv crew has rented the conference room, set photo studio and took a lot of blades from the museum. They spent a few hours filming knives and this part was quite boring. In the meantime, I took my time to take some photos and then, together with Jim we went for a walk.<br />
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Later on, in the afternoon, I and my tv crew packed and travelled to Osaka. This time I really didn't have an idea about what is going to happen. I was quite surprised when I met Jouzou Tushihashi. He said that he will take me to his friend. Nunoya Koji, a friend of Tushihashi San is a chef of Japanese restaurant "Unowa" nestled in a corner of Osaka Kitashinchi. He also belongs¶ to an association which I have mentioned before. It federates scientists, geologists, miners, knife sharpeners, sword polishers and more people with interest in preserving ''Tennen Toishi'' tradition and culture. It's a former luxury restaurant. I was introduced to Koji San and then I had a great restaurant experience.<br />
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First, I could watch Nunoya San sharpening his huge over 300mm yanagi on the Maruoyama Shiro Suita. One of the stones mined by Tushihashi San.<br />
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After that, he prepared a special meal for me and Jouzou.<br />
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''<i>Zori Ebi'' (Mitten lobster) - It is available only for two weeks in the year.</i></div>
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This is the end result of Nunoya-San work. I have to admit that it was more than delicious. Seriously!!! That tuna...¶ OMG. It has melted in my mouth. I have also seen a super cool trick. First, Nunoya San has used a shark skin to grind some fresh wasabi and he formed a small glob on my plate. Then, he used the back of his knife to hit whatever has left on the shark skin. I really didn't know what he was doing, but then he explained that by doing so, he changed the taste of the wasabi. I have tried both of the pellets and I have to admit that it was true:D<br />
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<i>''Some of his knives''</i><br />
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<i>Small stone shire.</i><br />
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It was a big pleasure to be there and to try such a good food. It was very stressful, to do all of that in front of the cameras, but the ·overall experience was quite fascinating. I was always dreaming about eating proper sushi/sashimi/call.it.like.you.want in a front of a chef. Great. At the end of a day, Nunoya San gave me a pack of a Japanese green tea. It was a very nice gesture. Straight from his restaurant we took a train and came back to our hotel in Sakai.<br />
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<br />Grzegorz Golahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00114536744950977193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766986295354540067.post-2419032715746361402018-12-10T15:40:00.000-08:002018-12-10T15:40:01.709-08:00The biggest adventure of my life - Emani Tadashi Hamono, Sakai (Part 3)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
On the very next day, we woke up early in the morning and I was taken to Emani Tadashi workshop in Sakai. I am not sure about the name, but I think that it is called ''Ichueno Hamono''. Of course, I didn't know where they were taking me and again it was a surprise. We have stopped not that far from this place, but I still had to walk a little bit. In the meantime, I could hear the sound of spring hammers and forging, as well as other sounds from many workshops around me. I was stressed especially that once we got closer to my destination we had to stop and repeat my walk three times. Just imagine yourself walking down the street where everybody is looking at you, especially that just behind you five people, three cameras, big microphone on the stick etc. are following you. Totally normal and relaxing situation. Hahaha. Anyway, I have managed to enter ''Ichueno Hamono'' and I was introduced to Emani Tadashi. Tadashi San is a very nice guy who showed me how to forge the knife and then, under his supervision, he let me forge my own knife. That was a very unique experience. Obviously, there is no chance to learn this kind of stuff in one day, but it gave me an idea of hard labour involved etc.</div>
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<i>Templates of different kind of knives made by Tadashi San.</i><br />
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My first attempt on hammering with spring hammer. Trust me, it only looks easy on youtube videos. Every hit is very powerful and it's quite hard to keep the steel in one place. </div>
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Emani Tadashi is using many different kinds of spring hammers depending on the step in the process he is actually doing.<br />
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Here Tadashi San is cutting out the tang of the knife. He let me do most of the knife making processes except for this one.</div>
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<i>Me, Tadashi San and knives forged by two of us.</i><br />
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One of the knives made by Tadashi San.<br />
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Suminagashi yanagiba.<br />
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<i>The furnace is heated up to 1100*C</i><br />
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<i>Hagane (Steel) is joined with Jigane (iron)</i><br />
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<i>Then it is forged together, first by hand...</i><br />
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<i>...and then by the spring hammer.</i><br />
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<i>Forged blank prepared to further processing.</i><br />
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<i>The blank is cleaned...</i><br />
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<i>This is a tang stamping machine.</i><br />
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Then the blanks are dipped in the clay, but Emani Tadashi is using the mix of clay and sharpening stone powder and who knows what else:D<br />
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Later on, he is heating the blanks to a proper temperature and heats treating the blades.<br />
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In the meantime I have shown him my knife which I made especially for my trip to Japan:<br />
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After looking at my knife he asked me if I would like to see his knives. After careful examination of his blades, he said that these two are for me!!!!!!! Seriously? I didn't know what to say. I think that even the tv crew was surprised because usually this kind of stuff is done at the end of the day. Emani Tadashi gave me two beautiful knives. A 270mm blue #1 suminagashi kiritsuke yanagiba and big, thick nakiri made out of the same steel.<br />
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The interesting fact is that in Sakai blacksmiths don't put their name on the blades, because there are more people involved in the knife making. The blacksmith is forging the knife and then somebody else is grinding and sharpening. However, Emani Tadashi is stamping his blades with kanji inspired by names of his two daughters. Serenity (second kanji from top) and Eloquent (third kanji from top).<br />
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Also, he gave me two key ring pendants. These are really cool because they look like usuba knives and in reality, they are forged out of laminated steel, has ''ura'' etc. They are normal, small knives. I am still thinking if I should use them as pendants or maybe if I should perform ''honbadzuke'' and make small handles for them:D He also gave me a super nice t-shirt with kanji ''<span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="ja"><span class="">鍛冶屋'' - kajiya - blacksmith.</span></span><br />
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Meeting Tadashi San, forging my own knife and receiving all of the extremely nice gifts was great and I have no words to describe how happy I was, however, it wasn't end of a day. Our next stop was Sakai Hamono Museum...<br />
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I will keep that story for the next post...Grzegorz Golahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00114536744950977193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766986295354540067.post-43998480730915568612018-12-10T15:39:00.002-08:002018-12-10T15:39:46.451-08:00The biggest adventure of my life - Maruoyama, Kameoka (Part 2)Welcome in part 2 of my story about my trip to Japan. Just before I start, I want to tell you that the preparations for my journey were very stressful. I have asked producers to book my return flight week later so I could stay there on my own. That wasn't a problem. The problem was that I didn't know exact dates to one week before my flight. That caused me many organising problems. First of all, I had to book the hotels for the time when I was on my own. I was in Japan in the worst timing for booking hotels, because it was the ''Sakura'' (cherry blossom) season and it was Easter in the UK. Flights were extremely expensive, but I didn't have to worry about it, because Japanese TV was paying for everything, including flights, hotels, food etc, obviously only in the time I was with them. I had to cover all expenses when I was on my own. The other problem was to plan my trip. Producers kept everything in secret, so I couldn't really plan anything. I wanted to go to Osaka, Kyoto, Tokyo, Sakai and a few other places, but I didn't know where will they take me. Also travelling in Japan by train is quite expensive. One week train pass cost about £200. That is quite a lot. After all, I decided to stay the whole week in Tokyo. I don't regret that decision, because producers took me to all places I wanted to visit:D I can also tell you that everything I wanted to see, all the places I wanted to visit and all things I wanted to learn - all of that happened. Can it be better? Check yourself in my story below.<br />
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So I flew to Japan at the end of March. I had a nice flight with a stop in Seoul in South Korea. As you can imagine, that kind of travelling is making you tired and after landing you can only think about going to sleep. On the other hand, I was really stressed. I didn't know what to expect. Once I collected my luggage, I went through the gates and I have noticed the tv crew waiting for me. I have approached them shouting ''Kon'nichiwa'' and I think that I have surprised them. After the short introduction, they asked me to go through the gate again. Hehe. But how can I do that? You can't go back and I was so tired that I only wanted to go to the hotel. I have waited for someone who was going through the gate and quickly went through it:D Did I brake the law? Probably yes, but it was fun. So I went through it again and I was acting like someone unaware of what is happening. They called me ''Grzegorz San'' and I have approached them:D This time was good and I didn't have to do it again. They quickly interviewed me and then we went to the hotel in Kyoto by bus. It was an hour trip, but at that time I was able to chat with my translator Jim. Jim was born in Japan and raised in Chicago. He is a great person and I felt a strong bond with him. Once we arrived at the hotel, I have quickly refreshed myself and then we went to the bar. I was only dreaming about some good food and a beer.<br />
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<i>Yusuke ''Jim'' Okada - my translator</i><br />
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<i>Mai Shishihara - director's assistant</i><br />
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<i>Jo Yoda - the director</i><br />
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On the very next day, we went to Kameoka, near Kyoto. That place is beautiful. We stopped our van next to over 1000 years old huge cedar.<br />
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My director asked me to go up the hill without giving me any details. I didn't know what to expect and where I was heading to. After a short walk, I have approached the small house. The guy who was waiting for me was Youzou Tushihashi. He is an always smiling miner in Maruoyama - famous ''Tennen Toishi'' (Japanese natural sharpening stone) mine. The only mine in Japan where stones can be mined from all strata.<br />
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After a short introduction, I have talked to Tushihashi San about sharpening stones and his job. He showed me hundreds of stones and I felt like a kid in a theme park. Tushihashi San is the fourth-generation miner. I am not 100% sure about it, but I think that he is also one of the creators of the ''Japan sharpening Culture Promotion Association''. It is really hard to translate. Even if he is not one of the creators, then he is one of the craftsmen. These guys have created the very first sharpening stone museum which is in Kameoka. Here is the link to their website: <a href="http://toishi-kan.info/en/index.html">http://toishi-kan.info/en/index.html</a><br />
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Big stone in the middle cost 500000 yen (about 4400$)<br />
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Later on, Tushihashi San took me to his mine in his small van. It was a little bit funny because he couldn't speak English and I didn't understand a word in Japanese. There were only two places in a van, so my translator has to go in the other car. Tushihashi San is a great person which is always smiling and laughing. We didn't understand each other, but it didn't stop us from talking to each other in our languages. After arriving at the bottom of Maruoyama, we still had to walk up the hill. Tushihashi San is 68 years old and he was going to the mine very eagerly.<br />
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<i>Tushihashi San in action:</i><br />
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<i>... and his main tools:</i><br />
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<i>Me and Jouzou after mining huge rock (the one I am holding is only a small stone chipped from the big rock). These stones are over 250.000.000 years old.</i><br />
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Later on, I had a lunch with Tushihashi San on top of the Maruo mountain. That was my first meal in Japan in front of the cameras and I can tell you one thing. It is really hard to be natural while eating and talking in front of a few cameras and many people.<br />
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<br />Grzegorz Golahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00114536744950977193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766986295354540067.post-79371909941147390022018-12-10T15:39:00.001-08:002019-11-21T14:15:40.988-08:00The biggest adventure of my life - Prelude (Part 1)Hello!<br />
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I hope that this post will be able to make up for a very long time when I didn't post anything. I believe that the story I want to tell you will be so long that I will have to spread it over a few posts. You are probably wondering what happened to me that I will need a few blog entries to describe it? Let me tell you. The biggest adventure of my life has happened. It happened suddenly without any notice. I will not let you wait anymore. Sit comfortably, get a beer and popcorn or any other favourite snack and read. Before I start, I would like to tell you that my original plan was to write everything with all details but now I think that it would be pointless and that I would have to write a small book in order to fit everything there. Also, it's already over eight months after my adventure and my emotions faded out. This is mostly due to a new job, lack of time etc. That is why I will try to tell you the most important things. Let me start...<br />
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It's already over a year since everything has started but I have a feeling like it was yesterday. Last year, in early April, someone from a company called Tele-Search based in London sent me an email and asked me if I would like to participate in a programme called ''Who wants to come to Japan'' broadcasted in TV Tokyo. This programme is about people with interest in Japanese culture. If the producers think that you are interesting and passionate about Japan, then they can invite you to the country of the rising sun for a dream experience and learn more about your hobby. My first thought was that it was a scam because I was receiving a lot of strange emails before. I decided that probably it's not true and I didn't bother to answer it. A few weeks later I received another email from the same company. They asked me if I received their previous message and also explained that they know my website, blog etc. I have realised that they did some research, which meant that maybe their emails were real. I don't think that any scammer or spammer would spend a time on research just to send stupid emails. Anyway, I have answered and everything started. They asked me to record a short introduction video. I didn't know what was the concept of the show and I didn't know what to think about it. I have prepared the script for my video and tried to record it, but it was very hard. It is different when you have to speak with somebody and when you have to record a proper introduction video. Also, what I didn't realise, Japanese shows are different from any other in the world. here is the video:<br />
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We were exchanging emails and then, few weeks or even months later, I've been asked to come to the Hyper Festival to London to record my first interview. I will try to make the whole story shorter, thus I will not get into too much detail. That was a hard time for me and my passion. In that time I have changed my career and I didn't have a time for knives anymore. I was trying to do things, but everything was going so slow, that at some point I gave up. I have stopped taking any orders because it was causing me more stress than joy. All of my friends were pushing me to go to the programme, but I had mixed feelings. I even didn't know if I will get into the programme. I was struggling with my thoughts and the more I was thinking about it the worse it was getting. I know that it may be strange for some of you because usually, people would do everything to be in my place, but I didn't feel right about it. They have found me because of my passion and it would be a big lie if I got into the programme. I can't talk about things if I am not passionate about them. Especially knives. I hope that you know what I mean. Trust me or not, but with the broken heart, I sent them an email, in which I have explained why I can't participate in the show. My fiancee told me that she is respecting my decision, but probably I will regret it. Guess what? I was really regretting that a week after abandoning the programme. Fortunately, they said that this is an ongoing programme and if I ever change my mind I can always come back. That was September 2017 if I remember correctly.<br />
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Later on, in December, I thought that I really messed up and that I have lost once in a lifetime occasion. I was thinking about sending them an email, but I wanted to wait a few days more. Then, a few days later, I received an email from the same company. I couldn't believe what I saw. They asked me If I am sure that I don't want to participate in the show. Obviously, without thinking, I said that I really regret what I did and that I really want to take a chance. From now, everything went very fast. That was in the early December 2017. After a few emails, we have arranged the first recording in my home in the UK. A tv crew from Japan came to Leicester for two days. There were two people in the tv crew and the translator. The director - Jo Yoda, Cameraman - Yukichi Yamamoto and the translator - Miyuki.<br />
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Just before their visit, I've been asked to answer many questions and prepare a few things. This is an example of their list:<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Show us your knives and sharpening tools, and explain how you use them etc.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Demonstrate how to sharpen/polish a Japanese knife </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Demonstrate cutting vegetables/fish with the sharpened knife. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The team bring an old blunt knife from Japan for you to sharpen. How long do you think this would take? </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 7.0pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Make a new handle for a knife. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">You cook some kind of Japanese food using your knife? </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 7.0pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">You invite some friends over to test your knife – e.g. you make a meal together and they cut up some vegetables for you with your knife.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Interview with you about your passion for knife-sharpening</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I was even asked about more things. As you can see, it was quite a lot to do in only two days. I have decided to prepare properly for that because I wanted to show myself from the best side. I also wanted to make it easier for the tv crew and myself. For example, for the knifemaking part, I have decided to prepare everything in stages, for example, a knife in three stages: A blank, then recording the grinding process for a few minutes and finally the finished blade. Same with the handle. I made three handles. The first handle was actually made of few pieces of wood glued together. The second one was squared so I could show them only a few minutes of sanding and the third handle was actually a finished product. This way I was able to save myself a lot of time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I had a few intensive days of preparation and mess at home. My flat turned into a proper workshop and fortunately for me, my fiancee is tolerating a lot. The day before recording I had a company Christmas party. I had to go there only for a short moment, but before that, I had a few drinks and then a few at the party itself. I had a little bit too much and it ended with a hangover on the next day. Did it help with stress??? I don't think so. Hehehe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We woke up in the morning and were waiting for the tv crew. They had to arrive at 10am. When they arrived I had a quick chat with my translator Miyuki. She said that they want to record a greeting moment. I gave her keys to my block and waited for them. I thought that I am ok, but when I saw a camera from the window I got really stressed. We have recorded a short greeting, introduced ourselves and after that had a nice chat and coffee with the crew. It was quite awkward at the beginning, but later on, I got used to the camera a little bit. They brought two knives from Japan. Obviously both of them in a really bad condition. I've chosen the worst one, which was very rusty Nakiri and I was asked to fix it. They have recorded the whole process. I was stressed about it because usually, I am fixing knives in my free time and I can take my time and focus on what I am doing. I hate when someone is staring at my hands and try to imagine what I felt when three people were staring at me and which were recording me with a big camera. Of course, I had to talk to them at the same time. Talking with them was very unusual for me because the tv crew couldn't speak English at all and everything was translated. Big kudos to Miyuki, who was very stressed about translating because of the vocabulary. She received a list of knife related technical terms a few days before. She did a great job!!!! Really!! In the meantime, I was explaining what I was doing in details. Later on, I had to cook a meal. First, we were thinking about preparing something Polish, but finally, we decided to make something Japanese. We have prepared miso soup made from scratch with our own fish stock and salmon tartare with sambal oelek sauce, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">shichimi togarashi spice, ginger and a few other things. I thought that we will eat it on the break with the rest of the crew, but I was asked to eat that with my girlfriend in front of the camera and in the same time we were interviewed. That was super awkward. We have arranged a scene in the late afternoon which involved my friend Kuba. I have asked him to bring me his knife, which I made for him a few years earlier. I thought that I will repolish it, but I have only managed to sharpen it. The scene was very simple. They were recording me while sharpening the knife and then my friend has visited me to pick up his knife. It was very funny because he didn't expect that they will speak only Japanese and it looked quite funny when he arrived. I gave him his knife, they interviewed him and then we had to scream ''Nippon Ikitai'' to the camera:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We have finished recording after 12 hours. I was so tired that I couldn't believe it. On the following day, I met the tv crew in the Leicester city centre. They went there earlier to take a few shots of the landscapes. Later on, we went to the park to take a very funny shot. I took a huge Ittinomon mioroshi deba with me and an Aiwatani natural stone. I had to run with them towards the camera, stop just in front of it and enthusiastically say why I want to go to Japan and end it up with ''Nippon Nikitai''. It was a beautiful day, but it was quite wet, slippery and cold. I had to repeat that shot three times and after the second one I slept and almost felt to the ground with the huge knife and the stone. We came back home and recorded a few more things. Just before sunset, I was asked to show them how I grind my knives. I have quickly prepared my grinder and showed them the process. We just needed a few minutes. When we finished a bird shat on me and I laughed badly:D There is a superstition in Poland that when birds shit on you then you will have a good luck. Remember that later on:D</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">These two days were crazy and very exciting as well as very exhausting. We were recording for 12 hours on Sunday and 10 hours on Monday. As I said before, I have tried to keep that story to a minimum but you must know that we were doing a lot of things. The tv crew was also taking a lot of pictures of knives and food. I took a few pictures as well. </span><br />
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From left to right: The director - Jo Yoda, Cameraman - Yukichi Yamamoto, my fiancee Gosia, translator - Miyuki, Zack - the driver and obviously me on the bottom.</div>
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The fact, that the tv crew has visited me didn't mean that I will go to Japan. I knew that they were really impressed, but I had to wait for the decision of the producers.<br />
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Later on, on 27th January 2018, a friend of mine who has visited me while we were recording in my home has set me up. He told me, that his friend who is a photographer is looking for an assistant for the wedding and that I can earn quite a lot of money for one wedding. I didn't like that idea, because I don't like this kind of photography, but the idea of earning easy money was quite encouraging. I had to meet him in the city centre of Leicester on Saturday. I went there and I have noticed three people with a huge camera. I passed them and then noticed that it was Miyuki, my translator and their driver Zack. I was speechless. They gave me a ticket to Japan!!! We went back to my home. I wanted to call Gosia, my fiancee, but they didn't let me. I was so surprised that I couldn't believe them and still wanted to call Kuba, because we had to see the photographer. Miyuki told me that it was a set up, but my emotions didn't let me believe that. We came back to my home and has surprised Gosia:D It was a great day!<br />
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<br />Grzegorz Golahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00114536744950977193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766986295354540067.post-58488267378360494822018-03-26T09:49:00.001-07:002018-04-24T13:38:17.956-07:00Small Gyuto for my trip to JapanHello there!!!<br />
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Uffff. I have managed to finish this one just on time. I am posting from London Heathrow airport where I am waiting for my plane to Japan. I will participate in a programme called ''Who wants to come to Japan'' which is broadcasted on Tv Tokyo on regular basis. I will give you more details when we will finish filming and when my episode will be released. I will try to take as many pictures as possible out there and then will post everything on my blog.<br />
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This knife is one of 7 which I have started a long time ago. I know that handle is a little bit too big and too long for this knife, but I really didn't have time to fix it. The box is made of oak and beech. I will post measurements after I come back. I totally forgot about it. Producers of the programme have asked to take it with me. I hope, that I will have a chance to get some proper critics from master sharpeners or bladesmiths if I meet any.<br />
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<br />Grzegorz Golahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00114536744950977193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766986295354540067.post-19163745742423094512018-01-30T15:25:00.001-08:002018-01-30T15:25:32.929-08:00200mm gyutoHello there!!<br />
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This is the second knife, out of 7, which I have messed up. Fortunately, I have managed to fix it and I think that the end result is quite good. This is a 20cm gyuto with random wood on the handle and the brass pins. This knife taught me a lot and it was a hard lesson. I made a huge mistake by heat treating all blades before drilling holes. That mistake has put me away from this project for a very long time. Fortunately, I have managed to destroy the temper on the handle by immersing the whole blade into the cold water and heating the tang with a torch and then drilling few holes with a cobalt drill. I will NEVER repeat that mistake. It was a pure nightmare and waste of money.<br />
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I am also quite happy with the way it cuts. The food release is very good. You can still hear some splitting sound while cutting carrots, but I am leaving it as it is.<br /><br /><br />
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This is the first knife out of seven, that I am trying to rescue. Almost two years ago, I have made a mistake of starting 7 knives at the same time. Of course, I have ended up with 7 messed up blades and now I am trying to bring them back to life one by one. This one actually survived as a heat treated blank till December 2017. I have made it for a special occasion which I cannot discuss at the moment. It took me a week to grind it and to make a handle. After that, I hadn't got time to finish it until last weekend. It has to be a 240 gyuto, 5cm tall at the heel, but there was a warp which I didn't notice before and which caused some problem in grinding. I've ended up with 240 slicer, about 40 mm tall (or maybe just a little above that). The handle is probably made of walnut, nickel silver and some random wood ferrule. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to measure it and to record a cutting video because I have finished it on Sunday night and had to post it on Monday to someone who wanted to test it. <br />
This is also a very first knife with a maker signature. I have etched it with the 9v battery and salted water. Do you like it??<br />
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<span id="goog_202014100"></span><span id="goog_202014101"></span><br />Grzegorz Golahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00114536744950977193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766986295354540067.post-16247739040552126792017-12-25T04:14:00.000-08:002017-12-25T04:14:03.635-08:00Merry Christmas!!!Hello Everyone!!<br />
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I would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!! I wish you all the best knives, finest stones, great skills, but most important a huge passion, loads of enjoyment and everything that you can only dream of. I hope that the next year will be better than the previous one. Stay sharp!!!<br />
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Ho! Ho! Ho!!<br />
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Greg WaBocho!!!!<br />
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I even didn't think about this project as a post on my blog, but after a struggle with it, I have decided to make a post about it. Today's subject is a 300mm Ittinomon Sujihiki in stainless clad. This is one of three knives that will be sent to me by the customer from Norway. At the beginning, I didn't recognize him, but later I found out that I met this guy in Denmark on one of JNS gatherings:D</div>
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This knife is an example why I don't like sharpening systems like Apex Pro on kitchen knives. They might be alright for EDC or bushcraft knives, but Japanese knives with various geometries need something more than just set angle. As you can see in the pictures below, this knife is very fat above the cutting edge and also exposed part of the core has vanished. This is due to extensive sharpening with the same angle.</div>
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I am not good at freehand grinding, but it wasn't that bad.<br />
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And here is the grind after 15 minutes on the grinder.<br />
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I have scratched flat part of the blade near the tip and thus had to refinish the whole blade.<br />
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My next step was to correct the grind on the stones and finish thinning that blade.<br />
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While I was trying to do my best to get straight line, I have noticed a strange thing. Whatever I tried to do I couldn't get shinogi line straight just before the middle of the knife. Sometime later I have figured out that the blade is thicker in the middle than it is near heel. I could flatten the thicker place above shinogi to lower the line, but that would be out of the scope of my spa service and it would be a lot of work.<br />
Two pictures below are showing that this waviness is equal on both sides and that was exactly what I could feel under my fingers. There is a good way of checking the thickness of the blade. Of course, it won't be an accurate measurement, but if you will do it with every blade then your muscles will remember it and you will be able to tell if the blade is thick or not. To do that keep blade in one hand and pinch the spine between your thumb and middle finger of the other hand. Then slide your fingers from the spine to the edge. This is why I knew that blade is thicker in the middle. You don't have to measure it with the callipers.<br />
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It's getting better. I was trying to follow original grind of that blade. It was little bit flatter on the left side and more convexed on the right side (opposite than on the picture below). That geometry makes sense because the left side is flatter to slide more easily through food and the right side has more convexity to separate food better.<br />
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Next pictures show some progress after different stones. I was very surprised when I have used my Bester 500 stone. Usually, I don't like it because it clogs very quickly and the feedback is awful on stainless steel. However, something pushed me to take it out of my drawer with the stones after two years of not using it and man... That stone is a beast when used with Ittinomon. I have two JNS 300 - Actual one and prototype of the size of JNS800 (soaker as well). I had one more JNS 300 before (the very first one), the muddy one and none out of these three stones were near as fast as Bester 500. I totally loved that harsh feedback. You could see steel particles on the stones instead of mud. Very nice feeling. Bester 500 is also harder than JNS 300s and thus made it possible to make a nice straight shinogi line, except for that place with broken grind.<br />
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If you really try and go slow you can make a shinogi line freehand on the stones. Compare picture below to the pictures from the beginning of the post.<br />
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Here is the result of hand thinning and power buffing. To be honest I could live with that result, however, the wave in shinogi line was very annoying. <br />
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There was no more time to play with it because I have promised my customer that I will send it back and take into consideration, that I already had this knife for two weeks I had no time to lose. The last part obviously was to sharpen the knife. That was Thursday and I have promised to send it back on Friday. I have sharpened that knife on Thursday evening and when I finished I have noticed some scratches on the side of the blade. These probably come from my magnetic rack. It couldn't have been worse. I didn't give up and 5 minutes after coming back from work on Friday I have settled my grinder in my corridor and started working on that blade again. I should do it straight away because in two hours I have managed to do more than in 2 weeks. First of all, I have repaired the grind and this blade is not thicker in the middle anymore. Everything is convexed now, so the blade is smooth, but if you look at the right angle you can still see original grind. Also, I have sanded the handle, sharpened ''D'' point on it and finished it with few layers of Danish oil with final touch of Rennessaince Wax.<br />
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So there you go, final pictures. I am still trying to figure out how to take nice photos in my dark kitchen. Some part of highlights are burned, but there is nothing I can do about it at the moment. Maybe I will get a nice soft box in the future and few lamps. I hope that my customer will like his brand new knife and that it was worth it to wait. I said brand new, because it looks like new from shop. Pictures and video below just don't give any justice to that blade.<br />
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<br />Grzegorz Golahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00114536744950977193noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766986295354540067.post-68671423226645160762017-10-11T14:36:00.000-07:002017-10-12T07:11:31.827-07:00Stanley nr.4 hand plane restoration (Picture heavy)<br />
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This post will be about something different: D:D Today I will write about… a hand plane. What? A hand plane? But why? How? This is a blog about kitchen knives you could say… Yes, it’s true, but it is also about sayas, handles and similar stuff, so there is little woodworking involved. Two or three years ago, while being on JNS gathering, I bought my first traditional Japanese plane. I have used it couple of times since. It is a piece of oak with cutting iron slotted in the middle and covered with a second blade which works as a wedge and chip breaker. I have seen my colleague Bo preparing it for me on the same gathering and he explained me a couple of things about Japanese hand planes. Using and maintaining them is harder that you think. I have a book by Toshio Odate - ‘’Japanese Woodworking Tools: Their Tradition, Spirit and Use’’ which is explaining a lot about these tools and their history. It’s very interesting. Anyway… I am not using it that often. Construction of western planes is different. They are made of cast iron and their construction is more complicated. You are also using them in different way, because Japanese planes are pulled and western planes are pushed to cut. Some time ago I was wandering on the car boot and waiting for my girlfriend. Usually, I can go through it couple of times while she is always somewhere in the middle. I have seen people selling a lot of junk including loads of old tools like saws, screwdrivers, files and hand planes, usually in a very bad condition, totally covered with rust and almost falling apart. I have heard name Stanley before and this time I have noticed an original Stanley plane in one of the stalls and I bought it for £8. I believe that they used to be very popular. It was in a very bad shape and condition. A tote (rear handle) was broken and split in half. The iron was too short and not much life was left there, but I didn’t know about it at that time. Rust was everywhere and there was some deep pitting here and there. I thought that it will be a nice project and maybe I will be able to rescue it. Before I show you some pictures I would like to quickly talk about history of hand planes. I will not write a book here. If you really want to know more, then I can refer you to read a book by Garret Hack - ‘’The hand plane’’. In this book he is explaining in detail what is a hand plane, its history, use, maintenance, types, etc. I will use few quotes from this book below. Also, later, when I will be explaining process of restoration I will refer to youtube video by Paul Sellers, as well as other youtubers.<br />
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Hand planes were with people since centuries. I think that you can easily categorize them as a basic woodworking tools. Even in prehistoric age someone has an idea to chip a crude cutting edge from a hunk of flint to scrape wood or other materials with it. The next step was to shape a handle, attach it to the flint with strips of animal hide to create an axe. The first documented hand planes dating from A.D. 79, were found in Pompeii. Their construction was improved over the centuries. At the beginning they were made entirely of wood with cutting iron slotted in, but then also other materials were involved: iron, steel, cast iron. Some of them were decorated in such way that they were not only tools, but also eye catching things. <br />
Now I would like to skip centuries of hand plane development and jump straight to 1855 when Leonard Bailey has patented his cast iron and later he and his company was bought by Stanley Rule and Level. Leonard Bailey was a cabinet maker who wanted to improve his tools. From 1855 to 1869 he was experimenting with and improved many designs for bench planes and scrapers. He invented such things as the depth adjuster and the lever cap still common on planes today. To be honest, hand planes didn’t change much from that moment and remained unchanged for over a century.<br />
If you want to know more then get a book mentioned above. There is an amazing amount of information.<br />
Let’s get back to my plane. It is a Stanley Bailey NR.4. I think that it is the most popular of Stanley bench planes. I was searching for some information about my tool in the internet and I found that mine is quite old. According to some websites, which helps you determine type of your Stanley hand plane ,mine is probably Type 19 and it was probably produced between 1948-1961.<br />
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There are few different ways to determine that (text copied from http://www.hyperkitten.com/tools/stanley_bench_plane/type_study.php#Type%2019):<br />
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''Type 19: Planes made by Stanley 1948-1961. <br />
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All of the features of the previous types, except: <br />
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<li>Rosewood is re-introduced, and is often varnished so heavily that it almost obscures the grain. </li>
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<li>The original type study doesn't mention this, but on some of the models of this type "STANLEY" is stamped on both sides of the lateral adjustment lever. I've seen enough of these to convince me that's it wasn't accidental, or if it was, it was a big screw-up. </li>
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<li>Later examples have the familiar black paint on the hardwood tote and knob. </li>
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Before I start I would like to apology for bad quality of the pictures at the beginning. I took them with my phone in very poor light conditions. Later I have started using my dslr camera, but as you can imagine, restorations like that are very messy and your hands are always covered with mud, wd-40, oil etc and picking up an expensive dslr is not a good option. I am using Nikon D750 with Nikkor 24-70 f2.8 lens and that cost over £2500, so making it dirty without a reason is not a solution. Anyway, I have started using it later on:D<br />
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Let's start then. Pictures below shows a Stanley NR.4 plane as I bought it. The biggest problem as you can see is rust and broken handle. I will evaluate other problems later on.<br />
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I have started from taking plane apart. Picture below is showing all parts. Here is the list:<br />
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<li>Plane Body </li>
<li>Lever cap </li>
<li>Cap iron </li>
<li>Iron </li>
<li>Rear handle or tote </li>
<li>Front knob </li>
<li>Frog </li>
<li>Knob bolt and nut </li>
<li>Cap screw </li>
<li>Frog adjusting screw </li>
<li>Handle (Tote) bolt and nut </li>
<li>Frog screws </li>
<li>Lever cap screw </li>
<li>Depth adjustment wheel </li>
<li>Adjuster tab and screw</li>
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<i>Plane body</i></div>
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<i>Lever cap</i></div>
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<i>Cap iron / chip breaker</i></div>
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<i>Iron</i></div>
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<i>Rear handle or Tote. Below is frog adjustment tab and screw</i></div>
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<i>Front knob</i></div>
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<i>Frog with lateral adjustment lever and depth adjustment lever</i></div>
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<i>Frog and ''Y'' adjustment lever and lever cap screw.</i></div>
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<i>Depth adjustment wheel</i></div>
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The very first task was to clean every single part from rust. I took a glass container big enough to fit all parts and poured in some distilled malt vinegar to cover all parts.<br />
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To boost chemical reaction I have doctored some table salt in to the vinegar. I could see some bubbles going up not long after I've started. In total all parts were laying there for about 48 hours.<br />
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In the meantime, when everything was soaking in the mixture of vinegar and salt, I had a time to fix the handle. I had two options. I could make a new handle or repair the old one. Making a new handle seemed hard for me at the beginning, but I did some research and found out that there is a new original handle plan on the internet. It seemed hard, because bolt and nut are going diagonally through the handle and matching it with the base of the plane would be very hard, but also it was tempting as a challenge Fortunately people from Stanley thought about everything and later it didn't seem to be hard at all. Here is the plan:<br />
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However, I thought that it would nice to try to restore the original handle. I am not wood specialist, but if to trust description of Type 19 Stanley planes, it should be Rosewood.<br />
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I have used Araldite epoxy to glue pieces together. I even didn't bother with cleaning it with sandpaper, because this handle broke in a very nice way and I could put two parts together without any problems.<br />
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The only problem I have encountered was that due to the curvature of the handle it was quite difficult to put them together and hold them like that. Fortunately I have managed to do that with a Deep-Throat Bar Clamp held in a vice.<br />
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In the meantime, when glue on the handle was drying, I could start cleaning all parts from rust.<br />
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When you do that part, you don't have to be gentle. I wanted to get rid not only from rust, but also paint and any other stuff attached to the bare cast iron and steel. To do that I have used wire brush attached to my pillar drill. To keep my kitchen clean I made a cardboard fence behind the drill.<br />
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Three different wire brushes were used to clean everything.<br />
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All places that couldn't be cleaned with big wire brushes were cleaned by Dremel tool with smaller wire brushes.<br />
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I have even cleaned threads inside the screw holes.<br />
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Next, brass parts were polished with polishing mops and some paste.<br />
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So here it is before cleaning:<br />
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Here it is after cleaning:<br />
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Now, when all parts are clean we can start proper tweaks and adjustments to the plane.<br />
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First, and one of most important things to do is to flatten the sole. It is crucial and even the best and most expensive hand planes needs that. Once you do that you can repeat that in a few months or even years, depending on how do you use your plane. <br />
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To do that I needed flat reference surface. First, I bought some granite tile from tile shop, but when I brought it home and inspected it I knew that I cannot use it. It was flexible. Even when you think that it is hard it will flex if there is not sufficient thickness to it. On the following day I went to town with a mission to find something better. If you will plan to do that, go to the kitchen shop straight away and ask for a sample of granite counter. That guy wanted £30 for the piece pictured below, but I told him that I cannot pay that amount of money and I ended up paying only £15. It is quite big and heavy (30 x 26.5 x 3 cm), but I wish that it would be little bit longer, however I have managed to work on it and it was fine. Granite like that will not flex at all and I am pretty sure that it is flat enough for what we need it for.<br />
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I have marked most important places on the sole. It's very front, rear and place near mouth. The rest is not as important, but it would be best to get it as flat as possible.<br />
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Before you start flattening the sole, make sure to assembly your plane. It is very important, because if you don't do that then the whole body may flex.<br />
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Also paint the sole with marker pen, paint in spray etc. It will indicate you which areas are touching sand paper and which still need to be ground.<br />
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After first few minutes of sanding you can see that it is not bad at all. Area in front of mouth is clean, as well as rear. The very end or butt is of less importance. Don't get me wrong. I mean only the round heel is not that important. Also the front of the plane is looking good.<br />
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Here is a picture after next session. I think that I will leave it as it is, because the sole is flat now and all critical areas are flat and clean.<br />
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Do not forget about sides of the body. Clean and sand them in the same way.<br />
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Next step is quite important as well. Paul Sellers in one of his videos is explaining that the sole shouldn’t be completely flat on the corners and sides. This is because when a planned surface is not even, then your plane may occur a problem after hitting uneven spot on your piece of wood. This is why we should make sides of your sole a little convex, to help them slide over an uneven surface.<br />
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Doing that is very easy. Just lay something thin and flat on the sand paper and then lay your plane body against it to lift a sole a little bit. The change will not be huge, but it will make a difference in a way your plane behaves. In this case I have used long stainless steel ruler.<br />
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Can you see narrow line on both sides of the sole? This is it. It is a place which is higher than the rest of the sole. It is very infinitesimal, but it will definitely help your plane to slide over unevenness. <br />
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Once I was finished with the sole I have decided to work on the ‘’Frog’’. That is very important part of your plane. First of all it’s a bedding for your cutting iron. It also contain cap screw, lateral lever, ‘’Y’’ adjustment lever, adjustment tab and depth adjustment wheel.<br />
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First, I have removed pin which holds ‘’Y’’ adjustment lever in place. I didn’t have to do it, but I wanted to clean everything properly and that was not possible before.<br />
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Then, I have masked cap screw with masking tape and covered place underneath lateral adjustment lever with blue tack. I've decided to do that, because paint would be scraped by lever anyway.<br />
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Original planes were japanned inside. I didn’t wanted to replicate original plane and I just have painted it black inside of the plane body and the frog, as well as ‘’Y’’ adjustment lever.<br />
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Here is the outcome of such operation:<br />
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Later it was a time to take care about iron cap. I have noticed that it was covered with some kind of chrome-like paint. I couldn’t remove it with wire brush, but as you can see on the pictures below, the paint was chipping off. I really didn’t like the look of it, so I took it to the grinder and gave it a try to sand it. I had a problem with holding it, so I have used magnetic holder. Using belt grinder was a good idea, because it looked clean and shiny after sanding. Of course I have sanded front and the sides, as well as lever, as much as it was possible.<br />
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Original Stanley planes has niche between letters painted in colour depending on type of the plane. I know that mine supposed to be something like orange, but I had only rest of the red paint which was kept in my drawer for past few years. It wasn’t even enough for that project, but I gave it a try. Of course I have masked the rest of the lever cap prior to painting and then polished it on the belt grinder to clean the letters.<br />
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How do you like it? It almost looks like new. <br />
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Here you can see all parts assembled together.<br />
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When I was done with parts mentioned above, it was a time to take care about the ‘tote’ and a front ‘knob’. First, I have taken care about chips, holes and unevenness’s in a front knob. I just simply have poured super glue over it. Once it was dry, I had to attach it somehow to my pillar drill. Bolt and nut from the tote was long enough and worked perfectly for that purpose. I have also used some blue tack and washers to prevent it from spinning on the bolt. Once attached to the pillar drill I have cleaned it with rough sand paper followed by finer grits. I didn’t go too fine, though. I don’t have a pictures from restoration of rear handle, but I just simply held it in the vice and worked it with rasps and sand paper.<br />
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Once they were done, I have covered them with some deep mahogany wood dye and a moment later sprayed it with semi-gloss lacquer. I think that they’ve turned out very good. And honestly, I like impurities in colour. I didn’t manage to remove all stains from wood and now, after dyeing them they turned out to be nice stains.<br />
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Later on, once again I laid some sand paper on my granite reference surface and then laid the frog flat on it. Of course it is a good idea to paint it with marker pen to see where you are abrading material from this part.<br />
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Picture below shows that frog bedding is almost flat. It is important to make it flat, because otherwise your iron laid on the bedding might flex or vibrate, and this can lead to lower performance of the plane or even damage to the iron.<br />
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I have cleaned frog ''legs' as well, because later that part will have constant contact with the plane body and you will be able to adjust its position which will lead paint to be removed anyway.<br />
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As you have seen before, the whole body of the plane was painted black and there was some charm in the way it looked, but after a while I thought that I like the way it looked originally. I took it back to the grinder and quickly ground the sides.<br />
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Isn’t that better now?<br />
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Next thing you can do to improve performance of your plane is to take the corners off with a flat file. Few strokes are enough.<br />
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Remember to repeat that on every corner - front, rear and sides, as well as the heel. You must do that on the heel, because if you don't, then there is a possibility that your plane will catch the wood when you move backwards.<br />
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Follow that with sand paper to smooth the edges and to remove the burrs.<br />
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Ok. Let's take a look on iron and cap iron.<br />
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First thing you must check is how cap iron is laying on the iron. It suppose to be flat and there shouldn't be any gap between them. Remember, that cap iron is working as a chip breaker, and if there will be even a small gap, then wood shaving might get inside and clog it.<br />
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Once again my magnetic holder came handy and let me keep cap iron flat on the sand paper.<br />
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Don't forget to flip it over and polish top part of it.<br />
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It was really hard to get that picture, but you can compare it to the previous one. I believe that it is good now and there is no gap.<br />
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Next and one of most important steps is to repair and sharpen the iron. As you can see the iron is not square. At this point I didn't think that it was a problem. I thought that I will grind it square easily.<br />
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To set up a proper bevel I have used my sharpening jig. 5 cm distance from the cutting edge to the front of the jig indicated on the ruler gave me an angle of 25 degrees.<br />
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Once you get a burr, flip it to the other side and grind it flat.<br />
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Repeat that on the finer stones.<br />
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And eventually strop it on the leather.<br />
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Also it is good to clean and ''sharpen'' the mouth of the sole, but be careful, because you don't want to open the mouth too much.<br />
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At that point I thought that everything was done, so it was a time to assembly the plane. I have started from frog adjusting screw.<br />
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Then adjustment tab. There is a slot in the tab which is going onto the adjusting screw. This is allowing you to make micro adjustments of frog position.<br />
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Next was a time for a frog. You use two screws to attach it to the body. You don't have to screw it extremily tight, because you want to have ability to adjust it later on.<br />
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Every single thread and moving part got a drop of oil. 3 in 1 oil would be perfect, but I have used the same oil as I am using on my bike chain.<br />
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Next part - Depth adjustment wheel.<br />
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Front knob...<br />
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And now the tricky part. This plane is very old and it is natural that wood shrinks over time. The tote on my plan was very loose and bolt was too long. In every video about restoring hand plane I have seen people cutting 1/8 of an inch to shorten the bolt and therefore tightening the grip. Instead of cutting it I have used small washer... it worked great.<br />
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And of course the last part was an iron with cap iron and lever cap.<br />
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The screw which hold the lever cap is usually tighten with screw driver. This is not a good thing. I have screwed that by hand and micro adjusted it to my needs. It has to keep the iron in place, but also it has to allow iron to move to sides and to front and back.<br />
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I have tried my plane and I have noticed that it is not cutting as it should. It was cutting only in the middle of the cutting edge.<br />
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I have inspected iron thoroughly and have noticed that corners were lower than the rest of the cutting edge. I kept grinding it on the 300 grit stone, but it seemed to me that instead of getting better the problem was developing.<br />
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As you can see below, the iron was leaving marks on the 8000 grit stone only on sides. That made me thinking and I came with an idea that if I am grinding only corners then the iron is bent / curved. That would be a reason, because there was no other possibility. Simply said, the corners were lower than the middle of the cutting edge. I hope that you know what I mean.<br />
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Also, when cutting edge is straight you can use lateral adjustment lever to move it to the sides. If it is curved then it doesn't work this way and there is no use for that lever.<br />
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So I thought that it would be a good idea to bent it to the other side by hitting the iron with an hammer.<br />
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I think that I have managed to flip it over and after painting the back side with marker pen and then grinding it flat I have noticed that I am abrading metal from sides, but not from the middle. Also I wasn't abrading material from the very edge in the middle of the cutting edge on the back side...<br />
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...but I was removing metal from the middle on the front. It's still not what I wanted...<br />
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...So I have used my hammer again.<br />
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And this time it was better.</div>
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I was able to ground it flat.<br />
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Then I have realized that probably this plane has seen a lot of use in the past. Just compare Stanley iron (on the right) to the other iron on the left. There is not much life left in my iron. I was thinking about buying new iron, but it cost about £16 for the cheap one and it would be overkill, especially that I have paid £8 for the whole thing.<br />
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That's all folks. I think that you didn't go sleep while reading my post, which probably was the longest post I have ever wrote. Before you will see the pictures of the finished product. I would like to say that it was a fun project. I have learned a lot about planes and probably I will buy another one next time I visit a car boot. I will be aiming for Stanley NR. 5 and Stanley block plane. Even if I will never use them I think, that it is good to have a quality tools, especially that you can have them cheap. Also it is important that when you decide to restore any tools, you have to do some research and you learn about your tool. This plane is not perfect and it doesnn't cut as I would wish, but I think that it is due to lack of sharpening skills and that it will get better in the future. Thank you very much for your time and wait for more posts. <br />
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This project was finished even before a project
from my previous post, but I thought that it will be better to post it
in that order. When I was in my lazy stagnancy, a good friend of mine Michal,
who is writing ‘’My sushi adventures’’ blog
on Facebook, wanted to encourage me to do something and he sent me his two
knives for some spa. We have agreed that it will be up to me what will I do with his knives and if I won't find the strength and energy then I can send them back. That was quite fair. The knives are Masamoto Deba bought on Tsukiji market in Tokyo and
Toyama Usuba which I brought for him last year while being in JNS on annual gathering .
I totally love these knives. The Masamoto deba is different than other
blades from the same manufacturer I have seen before. It’s plain on the
bevel side and it has a kanji on the back side. Toyama Usuba is another
example of a great workmanship. Fit and finish
of new knives from Toyama is excellent. I have started from making
sayas for both knives and then followed with some spa. In this post I
will focus only on restoration of Masamoto Deba, however I would like to mention that Toyama blade differ from Masamoto a lot in regards of hardness and the way it was polishing. It was simply harder.<br />
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The overall condition of this knife was good. Any rust that appeared on the blade was my fault, because when I was making sheath for that knife I left it laying in my kitchen and I kept picking it up with wet hands. Also there is some glue residue on the back side as well as on the very edge of the blade. This is because I was trying the fit of the saya straight after gluing wood together. <br />
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Flat part of ''kataba'' (single bevel knife) is never flat. It's concave in most of the knives of this type, because they are ground on the huge grinding wheels.<br />
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I really like kanji on the back side instead of the bevel side.<br />
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First thing first, I have decided to flatten the ''flat'' side of the blade on the JNS300 stone. Usually you want the roughest stone you own to do that.<br />
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Can you see the outline below? This is indication that this part of the knife is not flat. I will be sure that it is even when this lines will meet.<br />
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It didn't take me a long time to flatten this part. Picture below represents a flatten knife straight out of JNS300. From now on it should be quick to re-polish that part of the blade.</div>
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And this is the polish from synthetic Red Aoto. I was grinding the knife perpendicularly to the stone, but to finish it off I was doing collateral moves, so you can see straight scratch lines that are going alongside the blade.<br />
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As a next step I have planed to re-polish ura side. I have quickly do some uraoshi sharpening to see where the edges are and to reassure that back of the blade is flat.<br />
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Once it was done, I could start polishing that part of the blade. I have started from chipping small piece of ura fixers. This is a rough stone. I even didn't care to prepare it properly, in the way you usually prepare finger stones. I just wanted to remove original grinding scratches.<br />
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Here is the finish from that stone. It already look better and it is just beginning.<br />
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I think that I am getting addicted to destroying my stones. On the picture below you can see JNS800 which I accidentally broke some time ago, glued it back and broke it in to 4 pieces a moment after I took that picture. No worries, I have already glued it back.<br />
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Natural Red Aoto finger-stone...<br />
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... followed by wine cork with Aoto mud.<br />
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I have used Uchigumori finger-stones to finish polishing. To be honest with you I could stay with the finish I already had. For some reason my Uchigumori were scratching back of the blade (as well as front, but I will explain that later on) or the scratches were hidden between other scratches and waiting for finer stones to show up. That is as erious lesson which everybody should remember. You can't progress with grits or stones until you are 100% sure that all scratches from previous grits are gone. If you spent 2 hours on one grit and you have one super tiny, microscopical scratch which you can't remove, then you won't be able to remove it later. Don't lie yourself and don't waste your time with next grit. Trust me I know. I have been there and done that. Sometimes, when all that you can see are the scratches going into the same direction, you are not able to see scratches from the other grits. This is why sometimes it is a good practice to change direction of the scratches. While doing that you will be able to recognize other scratches, which you didn't remove before.<br />
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When I finished polishing the back and front of the blade I have started working on the bevel. Below is the end result. Again... I was too fast and I went with progression to fast without removing properly the old scratches. And later, when I finished on my Red Oohira you could see them. They were quite ostentatious.<br />
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I thought that I will use something special for a final touch. Now I know that it was a stupid idea, because to use special things for that purpose you must be sure that everything is perfect.<br />
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I took some Uchigumori chips and powder from the box with fingerstones and ground it to fine powder in the mortar. I have done the same thing with White Binsui.<br />
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And guess what?? That was a mistake. There were bigger particles in the powder which scratched the surface of the blade. I was really upset. I should have taken more care while grinding that powder, because I believe that a good mixture of natural stone powder (or even synthetic one) with water or oil can give you exceptional results.<br />
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After everything what happened before, I have quickly repeated everything, but have finished on Red Aoto. Here is effect and I hope that you like it.<br />
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<br />Grzegorz Golahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00114536744950977193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766986295354540067.post-2622596940310056322017-09-15T17:08:00.002-07:002017-09-18T13:30:33.107-07:00Sakai Toji Iwakuni Santoku 180mm and Kiya.<br />
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It was a long, long time since I've posted here. I just had no time, changed the job and let my hobby fade away. There was a time, when I wanted to give up everything and sell all my equipment despite my promises of a new projects. I had my own knives already started and didn't wanted to finish them either, even when my girlfriend ask me for that. I was still receiving an emails from my customers who were asking me for doing stuff for them, but usually my answer was ''No''. Then, few months ago somebody asked me to repair few knives for him and sent me their pictures. At the very beginning my answer was quick and same as always, but after some time I thought that I could give it a go. So here you go: All I know about these knives is that their owners brother brought them from Japan somewhere about 10 years ago. I am not sure how and when were they used or sharpened, but as you can see on the pictures they are in a very bad condition. Also I didn't know who's the maker and what are they made of.<br />
I did some research and asked some people on the KitchenKnifeFora.com forums and again they appear to be very helpful. The bigger knife, Santoku 180mm, is a Sakai Toji Iwakuni. It is made of Yasuki steel by Izumiriki Seisakusho. I've never heard of that maker before.<br />
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I still don't know what kind of steel is this knife made of, because Yasuki steel can refer to <span style="font-size: small;">Shirogami, Aogami and Aogami Super. This is what I have found on the internet. (Source: http://japan-blades.com/how-to)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Hitachi Metals Ltd. is one of top manufactures of
high grade metal products and materials, electronics devices, high
grade functional components and equipment. The company is well known as a
manufacture of its “Yasuki Hagane” YSS (Yasuki Speciality Steel) for
cutlery industries.</i></span><br />
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</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Yasuki Hagane steel has been produced in their plant
in Shimane prefecture in Japan where the high quality iron sand has been
produced for making traditional Japanese swords since ancient times.
These are three main premium grade high carbon steels (Shirogami,
Aogami and Aogami Super) that have been used for making Japanese made
field & kitchen knives. Hitachi metal is also known as the
manufacture of high grade premium stainless steel, ATS-34 and ZDP-189.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>ZDP-189 is the highest performing steel in the knife industry today.''</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So all I know at the moment is that it is a carbon steel and it could be white, blue or super blue steel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The other knife is a small petty with ''kurouchi'' finish. I've been informed that it is ''Kiya'', but I didn't find anything about this knife on the internet. I've found other products from this maker, but nothing similar to that blade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So before we start I took some pictures, so take a look.</span></div>
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<i>Both knives together:</i></div>
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So let's start from the smaller one. This one should be easier to repair. To be honest, I was only asked to sharpen it, but I did much more. So from what you can see on the pictures it is heavy rusted. There is a kanji on the right side. This knife is quite thick, but I've stropped it and I was amazed that it was actually sharp and that it was cutting potatoes quite well. I will have to ask its owner who and when has sharpened it. There was also a small chip near the tip.</div>
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The handle was of a very bad quality. There was a ridge between the wooden part and the collar. </div>
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It wasn't obvious at the beginning, but after further examination I have found out that collar was separated from the wooden part. Probably it wasn't even glued. I wanted to remove the handle with my usual method of banging the wooden board against the handle with the hammer, but even after very strong blows with the hammer it didn't come out. I assume that it is glued in or it sits there and it's stuck. It's strange because usually traditional Japanese handles are burned in to the handle with the red hot tang of the knife for snug fit. I had to repair it with a handle attached to the knife which made everything more complicated.<br />
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So first thing first, I have started my work from gluing back the collar to the handle with super glue.<br />
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Then, when it dried out, I have used my belt grinder to remove glue remains and to smoothen out the ridge between the collar and wood.<br />
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At the moment the highest belt grit I own is 320, then somehow I had to bring back the polish. I have used buffing wheels and some compounds. <br />
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This is how it looks at this stage. Obviously later I've applied few coats of Danish Oil and finished everything with Renaissance Wax.<br />
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Now it's time to repair the chip. As usual, I have started from low grit stone. In this case it was JNS 300. It didn't take me a lot of time to find out that the grind on this knife is very good. Obviously, shinogi line is not straight at all, but I think that it was never meant to be that way.<br />
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So, I continued my work on the stones through JNS 300, JNS 800 and then JNS 6000 and finish you can see below is from JNS6k which is laying under the knife on the photo below. I totally love the way this brick is behaving as a polisher especially that it's a synthetic stone.<br />
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To finish it I have tried to use different kind of fingerstones coming mostly from natural stones, but you would be surprised how well a fingerstone from JNS6k is polishing that blade (and others). </div>
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So now it was a time for the main meal - Sakai Toji Iwakuni 180mm Santoku.</div>
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First thing that is striking the eye is a huge chip in the middle of the blade. Obviously the whole blade was covered in the rust.</div>
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So I have removed the handle and laid the blade on the A4 sheet of paper to draw the outline of the blade. I usually don't that, but this time I wanted to plan my next steps. I also took some thickness measurements. </div>
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I was suspecting another problem which could occur, so I started from cleaning the blade from rust with 240 sand paper. You can go lower than that, but I wasn't bothered.<br />
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<i>Here it is, whole naked:D</i></div>
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I have circled in red, huge low spot with some pitting after rust. I already know that this will cause me a problem in the future.<br />
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I've tried to mark a new cutting edge on the drawing. This is what I have planned to reproduce on the blade. I didn't wanted to touch heel of the blade. The blade can be pointy in the front, but it's always better to have taller blade near the heel.<br />
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I could do that quite quick on the belt grinder, but I wanted to do everything on the stones. I was cutting the stone like one is cutting the bread.<br />
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Here you can see almost finished work. I have managed to follow my plan.<br />
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As you can see on that picture the blade became very thick. The small chip is still visible, but it will fade away in the next step.<br />
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Below you can see the new edge. I have settled a new bevel only as a reference. It would be a big mistake to leave it as it
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To do that I took the coarsest stone in my collection. I don't exactly now what is that but it is rough as hell, it's feedback is very unpleasant and it drinks more water than me on the hangover. I believe that it could be Cerax circa 120 grit grit or similar. I just didn't want to waste time.<br />
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Another serious problem which appeared after repairing that chip was that I had to grind a lot of metal which caused Hagane (steel) to be not exposed anymore and only Jigane (iron clading) to be seen. That is wrong because we can't sharpen iron. Thinning is a great solution for that, but the question is how far can we go there? I went as far as I thought is needed. Thinning is a good thing, but once metal is taken away, it cannot be brought back.<br />
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Fortunately, the grind on that knife was leading me.<br />
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From time to time, I was putting pressure towards the edge to make convex on the blade road.The principle is same as sharpening Hamaguriba on the single bevel knives. It's about the pressure and it's placement.<br />
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Here it is after 300 grit stone. If somebody ask me then it is a JNS 300 prototype. I am not sure how many people in the world own a stone like that, but I am one of them. I really like that stone. It's huge, about size of JNS800, it's a thirsty soaker and it's damn good.<br />
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Here you can exactly see how close is the iron to the steel. I had to lift it even higher, because after few sharpening session someone would hit the iron. <br />
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Shit happened. I've cut myself badly, but no worries. Recently I have discovered a great way fo rdealing with cuts.<br />
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It's super glue!!!:F<br />
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Picture below is showing blade after last stage of thinning. I could go further, but there was no point of removing more metal than it is needed. This knife is already thin.<br />
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I wanted to refinish it on the stones. I really don't like to work with sanding paper, because it's taking ages and I believe that stone finish is better than sanding paper one. My way of doing that is to lay a knife perpendicularly to the stones and to grind in the same direction. This way, vertical scratches will be made on the blade.<br />
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<i>Vertical scratches on the whole surface of the blade.</i></div>
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Of course everything has it's pros and cons. Do you remember big low spot I was talking before? Now it will be very visible. Of course, one of the solutions is to grind the whole blade to even it out, but as I said before there is no practical reason to do that. It (low spot) won't affect cutting performance.<br />
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I have used coarse fingerstone (I believe that it is made of JNS300) to polish it along the length of the blade. <br />
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<i>It's starting to look good.</i></div>
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And then I continued the same with JNS800, Red Aoto, JNS 6000 and finished everything with Takshima fingerstones.</div>
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How do you like it? I am pleased with the finish like that.<br />
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JNS 6000 when used properly, or best as a fingerstone, can give you very nice mirror polish. Unfortunately, it is very hard to take a photo it.<br />
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At the end of work, I had to attach the handle back to the knife. The handle itself was a handle with oversized hole in the middle and the slot for the tang. I didn't want to glue it back, so I took some wax from random candle, squeezed that in to the gap between the tang and the handle and heat it up with my dremel hot air soldering tool. That has sealed the gap and prevent water from getting in to the handle.<br />
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That was a nice project. I have really enjoyed it. It took me longer than I thought it will, but again I have learned some things and gained some motivation for the next project. Of course, as always, I am not 100% happy with the end result, but I am never satisfied. There are still some marks and pitting after rust, especially on the left side of the blade, but as I said before it doesn't affect the cutting performance and there was no reason to remove more metal than I had to.<br />
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Grzegorz Golahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00114536744950977193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766986295354540067.post-74145623226160813152016-04-24T15:25:00.000-07:002016-04-24T15:25:05.319-07:00Sunday sharpening session.Hello!<br />
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I've recorded those movies some time ago, but I thought that I will post them here.<br />
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<br />Grzegorz Golahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00114536744950977193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766986295354540067.post-9876866196508519022016-04-24T15:20:00.002-07:002016-04-25T00:13:57.845-07:00''My sushi adventures'' 240mm Masamoto yanagiba<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Some time ago somebody from my country has contacted me with some questions about knives. We started talking and after some time we became friends. This guy is a Ph.D. on Department of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science on Nicolaus Copernicus University. Yeah. Even I don't know what does that mean, but it's not about computers anymore. Trust me or not, but for me this guy is doing the best sushi in Poland. And he is not a pro. Just home cook and sushi enthusiast. Want to check it out? Check out his facebook and do not forget to like his page.</div>
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So after few attempts I've managed to force him to send me his knife. He has sharpened it and when I got it I thought that it is ok. It is sharp. The only problem was visual and it doesn't affect cutting. He was also complaining about shinogi line, because it was rounded, which was mostly visible near kanji. I didn't know what to do with that knife. As I said, it was sharp, it doesn't need any repair etc. Shipping from Poland to UK is quite expensive so it was pointless to just send it back. Then I have decided to make him surprise and to modify his yanagiba. </div>
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These are pictures of knife when I got it.</div>
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I hate those cheap handles with big ridge between handle and the ferrule. Also it was plastic.<br />
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So I started my work from fixing ura. As usual I have paint the back with red marker to see where I remove the metal.<br />
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As you can see here there is no contact between very heel and the stone. This is happening due to edge being bent. I thought about tapping it out, in exactly same way as tapping out the plane blades, but to be honest I was little scared of that. I have noticed that it is easy to sharpen that place. You only have to focus your pressure in that place.</div>
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So I thought that it will be cool if I try to even out the lines and then polish the ura. Back of the every single yanagi has diagonal scratches from the grinding wheel. To do that I used ura fixer which is a small rough stone. All you have to do with it is to hold it somehow and then grind some metal with forth and back moves.</div>
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And here it is. It is now even and smooth. All scratches from grinding wheel has dissappeared. Also now you can see the place where iron and steel became one. It was visible previously but not like that.<br />
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Now became the time to do something with shinogi line. Repairing shinogi is not easy and it's time consuming. I had two options to do that. First I could simply sharpen it for a very long time to lift shinogi line. The second option was to sacrifice a little bit of kanji and then make top part of the blade totally flat. With a little bit of normal sharpening I could make two bevels meet exactly where shinogi is.<br />
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I've learned that before that every single bevel knife is concaved in place where everybody thinks that it's flat. On the picture below you can see that i am removing metal near shinogi and near spine.<br />
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Here it's almost complete. You can see almost sharp angle on shinogi line. It's still not sharp near the heel, but I was working on it.<br />
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In the mean time I made a new handle from Pomelle wood, brass spacer and ironwood ferrule. Now it was a time to make a saya.<br />
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Honestly I am happy with saya. I have managed to grind a very nice bevel on my new belt grinder. This also made me thinking and I think that if I did it in wood then I could make it in steel as well:D<br />
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Obviously saya is made from very bright cedar and colour doesn't match with handle so I have dyed it with mahoganny and walnut dyes.<br />
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So here it is. The complete modification. The owner of that knife is also hobbyist photographer. Some time ago, after little conversation he made me buy new camera. It is dslr Nikon D7100. It took me 4 days of experimenting with different exposures to take those pictures. <br />
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Here you can see new shonogi line. Due to some light reflexes you cannot see it, but trust me it is straight and sharp.<br />
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Grzegorz Golahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00114536744950977193noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766986295354540067.post-60962916510917444122016-04-24T15:12:00.001-07:002016-04-24T15:12:21.888-07:00New belt grinderHello there.<br />
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I was using <span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">4''x36''Clarke CS4-6D belt and disc sander which was modified to take 2''x36''. It was working fine, but it is too slow for some applications. For knife making it was not enough. It doesn't mean that you cannot use it - I've made three knives on that grinder, thinned a lot of them and did all my handles. However I wanted something more professional and more powerful - a 2''x72'' belt grinder. Machines like that are very expensive and usually you cannot just buy them in tools shop. They are custom made. I have found a good option here in UK, but it was expensive. For a belt grinder with engine, professional inverter and all equipment and attachments including contact wheels I would have to pay about £1700. Of course I couldn't afford it. And then I saw that post on Britishblades.com forum. Somebody have mentioned cheap belt grinder on ebay which was made in Greece.. People were talking about it and maker of that machine has joined conversation. It was way cheaper and after some hesitation I have decided to order it. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now, after 7 months I got it, but there is negative side of the whole thing. You see, that guy have promised me that he will build it in three weeks. To spare you all details it looked like that:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have ordered my grinder. I have paid £835 in advance</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Instead of three weeks I got it two months later - incomplete</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">I was promised that I will get rest of attachments quickly.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">I kept asking for my tools and was still promised that they will be sent on Monday</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have stopped counting Mondays and also had enough of empty promises.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Suddenly in January I received email with apologies and promise that I will get my stuff soon.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">I sent three emails and never got an answer.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">On 15th of March instead of sending another email I decided to post it on the forums in that guy's thread and I got polite answer few minutes later. He couldn't answer for my emails for two months, but he did when his reputation was in danger.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Few minutes later he started sending me private messages in which he was threatening me with solicitors, because as he said ''I was destroying his reputation and slandering him on the internet'' bla bla bla. </span></span></li>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have reported that to admins and they helped me to solve that problem. I got my tools 7 months after ordering them. It is not acceptable to treat customers like that. Anyway here is my belt grinder.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Technical specification:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">2''x72'' belts</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Three phase ABB </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">3GAA091001-BSE engine. Power: 1.50kW, Speed: 3510r/min</span></span></li>
<li>Invertek ODE-2-22220-1KB4Y Optidrive E2. I can control every aspect of the engine with that inverter.</li>
<li>Front flat platen with adjustable angle</li>
<li>10'' and 6'' contact wheels</li>
<li>Small wheel attachment with different small wheels.</li>
<li>Additional flat platen which will allow me to work on top of the belt.</li>
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My grinder is quite heavy so to avoid problems with transporting it I have settled it up on the storage cabinet on wheels. <br />
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It's dirty, but I was using it for some time:D<br />
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I glued two layers of leather on top flat attachment to convex blades.<br />
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10'' contact wheel.<br />
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6'' contact wheel.<br />
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Small wheel attachment.<br />
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And after work I can easily store it near entrance to my bedroom.<br />
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Some belts I bought in Poland.<br />
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Total cost of that machine was about +/- £1200. If I knew that I will have so many problems with a maker of it I would buy from different source in UK. The grinder itself is good, but it has some flaws. Especially attachments are not that good quality. Now I can't wait to use it.Grzegorz Golahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00114536744950977193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766986295354540067.post-18806186875715498722016-04-24T15:05:00.001-07:002016-04-24T15:05:50.075-07:00Is it the end of the Wabocho service?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello!!<br /><br />I haven’t posted for quite some time, but it will change.<br /><br />I could write a post in which I was moaning and explaining that I felt tired, disappointed and<br /><br />distressed and needed some time off, but it would be boring so I will stop b*tching about it<br /><br />anymore.<br /><br />Am i going to end Wabocho?<br /><br />No, I am just making some changes.<br /><br />First of all I will only do things that I like and enjoy, making knives and razors. That will<br /><br />involve not being able to take any orders. (Sorry about it.)<br /><br />I have quite a few things going on but I am going to keep you updated about my projects<br /><br />regularly. (WIP’s with lots of pics and vids.)<br /><br />I feel more energized, have lots of fresh ideas and going to take Wabocho to a new level.<br /><br />So sit back and enjoy!<span class="_5yl5"></span>Grzegorz Golahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00114536744950977193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766986295354540067.post-17610830732107594652016-01-17T15:57:00.001-08:002016-01-17T15:57:58.341-08:00Suisin Densho 270mm White #1 Yanagiba #63HRC for sale.Hi.<br />
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I am selling Suisin Densho 270mm White #1 Yanagiba <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/63hrc?source=feed_text&story_id=1285886191426868"><span class="_58cl">#</span><span class="_58cm">63HRC</span></a>. This is such a great knife. Designed for professional kitchen. Comes
with round California buckeye burl and water buffalo horn handle. Also
it comes with saya without pin, but I can make one if needed. If you
want more information, please visit Ironchefknives website:<br />
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The new knife cost £384GBP, which is 549$. However I paid about £120
GBP (185$) to import it to UK. This is a reason why I can't go really
low with price.<br />
Price for that knife is £290 GBP (415$). I will pay for shipping in the UK.<br />
I accept offers, but please be serious.<br />
This knife will be polished, sharpened and prepared before I send it to
the new owner. I prefer to sell it to someone who has knowledge in
single bevel (kata-ba) knives sharpening.<br />
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Grzegorz Golahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00114536744950977193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4766986295354540067.post-13257043973014630282015-12-16T01:25:00.001-08:002015-12-16T01:25:04.732-08:00220mm Gyuto in O1 @61HRCHello there.<br />
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I didn't post anything in a while, but I had a good reason for that. One of the reasons for non posting was lack of time, as well as two holidays and little burn out. Yes... I felt burned out and I am not happy with that. In the mean time I was doing little projects, but everything was taking me enormous amount of time. However, at least, I have managed to finish one of the knives I have started earlier this year. There are few minor flaws, but I took them in to the consideration and I am willing to avoid them next time. Also for the first time I have tried to etch my surname on to the blade with nail laquer and 9v battery technique. I am not happy with results. I plan to order some stencils designed for etching. Here are the results:<br />
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220mm gyuto:<br />
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Steel: O1 @ 61HRC<br />
Total lenght: 350mm<br />
Cutting edge lenght: 220mm<br />
Height over the heel: 43mm <br />
Spine thickness over the heel: 2.83mm<br />
Spine thickness in the middle: 2.37mm<br />
Spine thickness 1cm from the tip: 0.93mm<br />
Handle lenght: 125mm<br />
Handle material: Non stabilised Amboyna burl and brass pins finished with TRU-oil.<br />
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And quick cutting test:<br />
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