Pictures of your new acquisitions

I bought this soup recipe on sale, even came with a free knife, but more on that after I have my tea

 

This slicer just arrived. Found it on the "Bay" and had a weak impulse and an open wallet. The description is of a 240mm Yanagi Damascus knife new from old stock. It has a ton of lacquer on the blade and that will go. Going to research it a little more. Any help on the makers marks etc would be greatly appreciated.

 

My Kato workhorse just arrived today! Took it for a brief test drive tonight, love it so far. A bit longer than the 240 it's listed at—actually 247mm blade length.
http://s1351.photobucket.com/user/DitmasPork/media/IMG_6545_zpsb57e443c.mp4.html

 

I got this from Maxim at the last JNS Gathering, as a project.
This is a honyaki knife, when I will polish it fully, It gets etched.

Steel? I dont know nor I care. The funky symbols plays no role
Hardness? Dont know either, but very hard. Very hard to polish. Just the toughest Klingspor paper leaves visible scratches.
Maker? No clue, but the blade is straight and true

It is a keeper. Perfect slicer. It is quite thick, around 4mm, and has null flexibility.

 

singatirin prototype?

 

Watanabe

 

Might well be. Dunno.

But, It was ground nicely to begin with, with a very strange assymetry, something single bevel-esque.

 

I'm starting to get Rader envy

 

No pictures yet but I got a Beston 500, Atoma 140 and a couple of Shapton Pro stones (1k, 5k & 8k). Also got a stone holder to help me sharpen.

Dave's DVD has been a good learning tool so far. I keep turning the stone, know what to watch when flattening and got some more very helpful tips.

I started on an Ontario knife from the (I guess 70's) and thinned the heck out of it the last 2 days. After that its going to be etched as its very reactive. Finally Ill put on an edge.

 

Not totally new but pretty much finished with usability and performance tweaks so the knife is comfy and very sharp, so ready for action:



Zakuri Tosagata bocho 165mm.

 

XooMG, did you thin it so the Shinogi went up? I like how it looks.

 

Nice job on that Zakuri, XoomG!

 

i wish that zakuri would come in 240 length, looks great.

 

Kind of. I mostly just smoothed and evened out the bevel a bit...it comes from the maker with a rather "textured" bead blast finish on the bevel, and I wanted it to have less resistance. As a consequence of taking that down, the bevel has become a bit wider and very thin...maybe bordering on too thin, but I reinforced it with some convexing and a microbevel.

It originally looked like the top knife in this pic:

(the bottom knife already had its bevel redone).

Now the choil and spine are nicely rounded, and my very limited tests with it are promising, just like with the funayuki.

 

Another new acquisition. Saw Maksim's video on different Itinomonn models:

Decided to get a kuro-uchi model, was surprised that it was 55mm tall (JNS site said 50mm)
Heh...turns out it's the very knife from the video!


I like the texture of this KU a lot...

 

Some stunning lookers!

 

Mario 250mm, is now part of my line up

 

Marc, GREAT BUY!!!

 

it looks so thin, the onions won't know what hit em.