That’s a wild looking blade. Very nice.
Thank you! 180 layers of high tensile steel and pure nickel sheet on each side of the Hitachi #1 core.
I like using a piece of art when I'm in the kitchen.
That’s a wild looking blade. Very nice.
Old reliable Kropp (Sheffield only) beginning to pull a little too much. I'm on a family holiday in Norway, and brought no stones or pastes! The local hipster barber might let me use his coticule (or whatever) for 10 minutes, but it's closed for the Jul duration. What to do? Hunting through Lady Fatboy's grandfather's tool kit, on an unrelated DIY matter, I came across two 3 x 1" Arks - a (rather hard) soft, and (surprisingly) a white/yellow translucent.
Small, but perfectly formed. A little time and a little dish soap yielded a pretty good edge ATC, and subsequently a high end DFS.
What is even more surprising; In a decade of coming here I have only just found them.
Love the manganese on that thuri.Honed today for today's shave: coti vs. thuringian edge.
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Guess you are referring to my beautiful marker linesLove the manganese on that thuri.
Guess you are referring to my beautiful marker lines
Careful, or you will start a new trend. Lol.Graphite slurry... Superfine edge.
"Honing Pencil" $12.95Careful, or you will start a new trend. Lol.
+1Which one won?
Careful, or you will start a new trend. Lol.
Both seem to be very skin friendly, need to shave more to pick a winner there.Which one won?
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...and seeing as the equipment was already out, figured it would be a good idea to sharpen up some knives that needed attention.
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Busy morning. Five blades came out of the service bay today for some fine tuning on The Arkansas Grey.
Went back to water from the 50/50 Ballistol-water mix. Less messy.
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...and seeing as the equipment was already out, figured it would be a good idea to sharpen up some knives that needed attention.
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Compared to the Arkansas Surgical Black I prefer the Grey.
It’s like a very very keen coticule
Sharp but not hyper like a Jnat.
I’m in the process of perhaps getting a Dota Creek to replace my Surgical Black.
Ideally you would use the Grey as the finisher coming off a Surgical Black or Naniwa SS 8K.
Funny issue is this functions like a 12K stone but it’s a limestone like rock, not novaculite as are traditional Arkansas stones.