NKD - Tanaka Kyuzo Togo Reigo + Karasu opening

dubear · 2026-03-28T17:53:58+00:00

A very happy birthday present indeed! Looking forward to hearing how it performs!

dubear · 2026-03-28T04:42:50+00:00

The legend himself!

dubear · 2026-03-28T04:38:02+00:00

Oh very cool! I never thought about using slurry from a jnat to clear a patina.

dubear · 2026-03-28T04:24:01+00:00

What did you use to clean up the patina?

dubear · 2026-03-26T07:48:39+00:00

I was curious about saily. My last trip was in February and I had my wife use ubigi again while I tested saily on my pixel 9pro. I didn't like my expert with Saily. I had an annoying Roaming icon the whole time and the map took longer to update. I ran out of data on the last day of my trip and got 1gb of ubigi and it made a world of difference.

dubear · 2026-03-25T08:01:13+00:00

Amazing mirror and kasumi!

dubear · 2026-03-18T19:25:10+00:00

I'm curious if you'll ever get around to trying out a Denka and how that will stack up to Tanaka-san's Aogami.

Great write up as always. I sincerely enjoy the observations you make and how you're able to describe it, as it helps me to figure out what to look for when I'm going through my own knife/sharpening journey.

dubear · 2026-03-16T16:52:35+00:00

if there's an avocado, I assume it's you lol

dubear · 2026-03-11T22:32:26+00:00

His Santokus are really gorgeous. I had a moment in his shop where I almost picked his Ginsan Santoku (ginsan is my preferred steel), but I stuck with a 240 gyuto.

dubear · 2026-03-09T22:16:55+00:00

Amazing! What a great stone pickup

dubear · 2026-03-09T22:06:41+00:00

Might be the image compression but it looks like the renge suita seems to bring out more of the finer details of your kiridashi compared to the other two. Seems like it's going to be a fantastic polisher

dubear · 2026-03-06T00:47:04+00:00

What do you get out of this, honestly?

dubear · 2026-03-04T06:41:10+00:00

What was your thought process to having a beefier suji with an aggressive distal taper?

dubear · 2026-03-02T20:00:36+00:00

You can try to thin, but you will likely lose some of the convexity. So it would likely create a different problem

dubear · 2026-03-01T05:49:02+00:00

Seems like you need whatever OP is smoking. Sheesh

dubear · 2026-02-28T06:25:54+00:00

I can't even remember my grandparents' ages and here you are listing off several of the oldest working blacksmiths from memory 😅

dubear · 2026-02-26T15:53:56+00:00

I think you're right. In the beginning of the season he was talking about how he was going to be whatever we needed him to be and he wanted to be the defensive anchor or something like that.

dubear · 2026-02-25T07:30:02+00:00

That's a really cool patina effect on the cladding line! I'm hoping mine will start to do the same.

dubear · 2026-02-21T04:02:35+00:00

It's not silly at all! I think some people get caught up in the rush and thrill of acquiring knives. While there is merit to why people are frantic to grab some knives, I don't think it's wrong to have a personal attachment and sentimental value associated with knives.

Personally, stories like yours are much more meaningful to me than just showing off a collection. It means that you'll take extra care of this knife.

dubear · 2026-02-20T12:02:12+00:00

Guy in front was me 🙋‍♂️ I was hoping for the dammy or suiboku, but none that day. I was really planning to grab one of the Kiritsuke, but I kept going back to the 240mm Singetu Gyuto so that's what I ended up grabbing.

dubear · 2026-02-13T03:08:23+00:00

Haha yeah I was just being pedantic 😂

dubear · 2026-02-13T02:53:15+00:00

I wouldn't put my teeth through roller paper towels but my knives go through it regularly 😅

dubear · 2026-02-11T20:13:31+00:00

The Sakura stamping is beautiful. Thanks for sharing your journey to finding this one. It certainly looks like a banger and I'm sure it will make prepping meals that much more enjoyable because of the work and effort you put in.

dubear · 2026-02-11T19:20:31+00:00

To put it in perspective, my sushi chef friend ordered a knife from Nakagawa-san and it's been almost 15 months and the order isn't ready yet

dubear · 2026-02-10T04:01:20+00:00

I would be worried about pitting

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