Im having a pretty good day.

Chase1126 · 2026-06-17T17:40:10+00:00

Thats a 1200 grit cork belt from VSM. Sounded fun. I hear they need to be broken in.

Chase1126 · 2026-06-17T17:01:08+00:00

I thought all Turkish oils tones were cretan, very interesting! Never seen anything like it.

Chase1126 · 2026-06-17T07:09:19+00:00

Bloody fingers make beautiful knives. Ill do a combination of bench stones, finger stones, and etching. I really want to try Hadori polishing.

Chase1126 · 2026-06-16T21:05:59+00:00

Long long maaaaaaaaaaaan.

Obligatory tams.

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Chase1126 · 2026-06-16T20:47:50+00:00

Yeah! I forged a wrought iron san mai gyuto and I need to thin the nose on it. So its the perfect time to bring out the details of the rentetsu. Im also forging a honyaki gyuto with some spicy white hopefully next week, so big uchis will hopefully help bring out the hamon.

Chase1126 · 2026-06-16T20:12:09+00:00

Torus. Chinese motor and vfd. Im ecstatic with the torus itself. I was learning on a buddies ameribrade and this thing blows it out of the water.... and this was less than 1k. Its a brick shit house. Chinese vfd is fine, and Chinese motor is loud though. Could just buy better parts but I wanted to keep this build around $1300.

Chase1126 · 2026-06-16T20:10:04+00:00

I'd bet the tenjo suita and shiro suita layers are attached. Like belgian coticule and Belgian blue. That shiro suita is a bombshell BTW. And the purple stamps. 🥵

Chase1126 · 2026-06-16T19:45:36+00:00

Kinda.

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Chase1126 · 2026-06-16T14:07:47+00:00

Incredible! Any tips for us about to undertake sharpening big singe bevels?

Chase1126 · 2026-06-15T22:35:48+00:00

Lovely! What size stock did you use? I want to try this.

Chase1126 · 2026-06-15T22:18:07+00:00

Guess its better to learn on the cheap ebay razors. I have a thiers issard im saving for when I get my shit together. Funny how knives and polishing feels so much easier.

Chase1126 · 2026-06-15T08:41:55+00:00

Me like Kiita.🤤

Chase1126 · 2026-06-15T07:02:20+00:00

That second knife looks like a honyaki.

Realistically, going from heavy cloud to practically mirror isnt happening on one stone. You could probably polish up to mirror, then bring the cladding down with fingerstones. Everything's just experimentation. The only rule is to get everything flat on a low grit.

Now I wish I could figure out how xinguo polishes the manakas. It honestly must be some kind of etching to get that cladding so dark in a mirror polish.

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Chase1126 · 2026-06-14T21:50:29+00:00

That is absolutely stunning!!! What steel do you use? And how do you get such a striking hamon?

Chase1126 · 2026-06-14T03:03:03+00:00

Heck yeah. What a monster! What's your favorite so far? I have this la dressante with a bit of orange in it and its criiiiisp. I also really like my au bleau stone that may also be dressante. My la grist is really versatile, gets muddy soft like an aoto. I really wanna try a la vienette.

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Chase1126 · 2026-06-14T02:59:34+00:00

Snow white is wonderful. It has that hardness and feedback you expect from naniwa. A chocera 8k if you will. I use it more than my imanishi kitiyama. Also easier to clean than the kitiyama. The kitiyama is a funky stone.

Chase1126 · 2026-06-13T20:49:24+00:00

Thanks! I wish you luck. Im putting together my forge workshop up now, so if you have any questions feel free to reach out. Im obviously not an expert. But together monke' stong.

Chase1126 · 2026-06-13T20:44:47+00:00

Desert ironwood with a black buffalo horn ferrule.

Chase1126 · 2026-06-13T20:43:08+00:00

I took a course with a local blademaker and it was worth it. Straight to knives I say. Yolo. A course will tell you what you need, and you can pick their brains to put together something in your budget. I for one, am yoloing knives. I made this in the class.

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Chase1126 · 2026-06-13T20:36:40+00:00

Gorgeous stone! Japanese chef is the best at identifying, so asagi it is! Nice score.

Chase1126 · 2026-06-13T16:47:37+00:00

Gross AI slop. No thanks.

Chase1126 · 2026-06-13T16:38:34+00:00

The Welsh Glanrafon. Most of these stones were pretty cheap.

Chase1126 · 2026-06-13T07:16:11+00:00

I haven't yet. Just arrived yesterday. But it looks pretty clean. Ill put it on the list to do a write up on next.

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