The crazy pirate

Would you recommend and why few of this brands which you have ?

Are they carbon steel so they tend to rust if you don’t care about them properly ?

Specially I’m looking for a good utility knife.

Can I ask what brands of Japanes knives you have ? I have only one Japanes knife Yaxell ran chef knife 200mm

Did you hear for Eden Kanso Aogami ? and is it any good at all?

Hmm yesterday I tried to sharpen smaller knives and it is easy as a walk in park.

No need special attention on anything and I got razor polished blade in matter of 10 minutes. Every mm of blade cutting evenly.

On other hand first big knife was very difficult to sharpen, but on other hand big blades are easy to sharpen on water stones where small…[Read more]

I understand but could I ask you for advice ?

I’m trying to sharpen 8″ (20 cm) chef knife, results are for now are just fine for kitchen work, but for my head it is not enough, I just do not get consistency in cutting paper. I mean it can shave hairs at least on few parts of the blade but what can I do furthermore to get every part of blade to…[Read more]

Hello Richard, thank you, glad to be here.

I am using Yinama USB Microscope and only the LED light provided from microscope, which is also adjustable. Also, it has Wifi feature which is for me must have.

Satisfied? That’s hard to say because in start it was terrible and yes now is much better, there is almost no tearing pretty good cut,clean no fibers sticking, but there are few spots where it cuts better than on others. It needs to be better from that or just I want to be better at that.

I’ve read all links you have gave me, they are…[Read more]

I haven’t try to cut yet.  Both sides are in these pictures.

Here some more pictures looking from above on apex I guess.

From looking above can we learn something is blade sharpen in proper way or not ?

Have you some advice on what kind paper I should try cutting ? Maybe phone book paper ?

And these are the latest pictures I have.

O that is a lot for reading it takes time, but thank you again. I`m sure there is helpful information there.

And again I tried to make it better, please look pictures is this what I should looking for with 1000# diamond stone?

Or is this still bad ?

Thanks for video links, this about strokes could prove useful Im going to try later to make like that guy.

How much strokes do you think i need like 400# 50x and than 600# 100x ? 800# 150x and 1000# 200 times ?

I have angle cube and angle is about 1 degree of differences, but im pretty sure when I sharpen on water stones I can not get that…[Read more]

And my WE gen 3 pro 🙂

Thank you for instructions how to put pictures out 🙂

I hope that you can see what I talk about.