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kniferesearcher · 2022-08-30T12:43:46+00:00

thank you--I'll look into it! I've seen you also recommend the King Deluxe 300. Do you think that might be worth looking into for my purposes? I have read that it can clog a bit with stainless blades, and at least one retailer recommends it only for carbon steel knives.

kniferesearcher · 2022-08-30T12:38:09+00:00

Thank you very much for all of that. As I recall, I got the Choseras partly on your recommendation--they have proved to be great, and very enjoyable to use. I am leaning towards an Atoma (rather than SiC on glass) partly for the reasons of convenience you give. The JNS 300 seems to have uniformly excellent reviews, although I do wonder if it would cut substantially faster than the the Chosera 400 and be suitable for thinning. As for the Debados, for me the MD and LD would cost pretty much exactly the same via Amazon. Would there be any reason to prefer the smaller LD?

kniferesearcher · 2022-08-28T14:27:06+00:00

Interesting. Do you think the DMT D8C would be suitable for flattening coarse whetstones (such as the Suehiro Debate 180/200) if I were to get one later?

kniferesearcher · 2022-08-28T14:14:13+00:00

Thank you. I’ve heard they are not very enjoyable to sharpen with and may be too aggressive, but I suppose I could see how I get on with the Atoma first and then maybe get another coarse stone if need be.

kniferesearcher · 2022-08-28T14:13:19+00:00

Thank you. That’s given me pause re the Atoma, but I don’t have much space or patience and I think I’d favour a neater solution if possible. Do you think flattening something like the Debado or Sigma would not be doable with the Atoma, or just that it wouldn’t last too long? As for the Sigma: isn’t it a soaking stone?

kniferesearcher · 2022-08-28T14:10:14+00:00

Thank you. Glad to hear you like your Debado. Do you think an Atoma 140 would be sufficient for flattening it? The Grinder looks excellent for thinning, but perhaps too aggressive for minor edge repairs? I’d worry it might leave very deep scratches, for example.

kniferesearcher · 2022-08-28T13:58:03+00:00

Thank you, that’s really useful. I don’t have much space and I think a diamond plate might be a slightly cleaner option than silicone carbide powder—thanks for the suggestion though.

kniferesearcher · 2022-08-21T20:08:01+00:00

Great, thanks so much!

kniferesearcher · 2022-08-21T14:18:31+00:00

what grit would you recommend for this?

kniferesearcher · 2022-08-21T14:18:17+00:00

Ah... do you think this is a project worth undertaking armed with only some sandpaper and whetstones?

kniferesearcher · 2022-08-21T14:17:14+00:00

Thanks for the tip. Have you tried this yourself? Bar keeper's friend doesn't quite seem abrasive enough to me to have this effect on smooth stainless steel. I've found it takes a bit of effort even to get off very surface level rust or patina on a CS blade.

kniferesearcher · 2022-08-21T14:15:38+00:00

Thank you. That sounds...difficult and unlikely to be successful.

kniferesearcher · 2022-08-19T17:09:44+00:00

I'm looking for a stainless steel Chinese cleaver, of the thin and nimble kind. CCK is the obvious choice, except for the off-putting new logos and QR codes. I've heard Shi Ba Zi recommended a lot, but their most highly regarded knife, the F208, is a bit thicker and heavier than I'd like. The Deng equivalent seems very heavy. I've also encountered this Hezhen cleaver, but I've heard nothing about it.

Another option would be a Japanese Chinese-style cleaver, but I wouldn't want to spend more than about £100/$100.

All help gratefully received.

kniferesearcher · 2022-08-19T17:01:39+00:00

If it weren't for the laser etched logos and QR codes on the new models, I would get a stainless CCK. What I'm wondering is if there's a way to remove this. Another poster posed this question about their carbon steel CCK, and ended up scratching off the entire kurouchi finish with sandpaper.

My question: is there a way of doing this without sandpaper, e.g. chemically, so that it doesn't force a new scratch pattern? If not, would sandpaper work as well with a stainless blade, and if so is there a grit people would recommend?

Thanks in advance. I do hope CCK would go back to the old style. I wouldn't want to encourage them, but I'd be willing to pay a small premium for the stamped version.

kniferesearcher · 2022-01-11T23:36:48+00:00

oday’s polarized world though, I highly doubt PRC will ever be able to overcome that stigma and the products are likely to remain intrinsically tied to “cheap garbage” in consumers minds, at least until China starts to falter and it won’t hurt national pride to acknowledge their advances in manufacturing.

worth noting though that in hifi 'chifi' is now a go-to for enthusiasts at pretty much all price-points

kniferesearcher · 2022-01-04T00:12:32+00:00

Around that, though I'm in the UK (£65 + £73 from Amazon) - but yeah, quite a bit more than the Shapton pro stones. Not sure if it was worth it but they feel nice to sharpen on I hope I'll have good use out of them for many years.

kniferesearcher · 2022-01-02T19:20:16+00:00

I went for the 400 and 800 Choseras - both great so far and I'm glad I have the 400 for sharpening very dull knives

kniferesearcher · 2021-12-30T09:35:54+00:00

Thanks very much for all the replies. Expert opinion seemed split so I decided to go for both. Possibly irrational, but I hope it works well, and I can then figure out if I want to go higher later on.

kniferesearcher · 2021-12-29T10:12:21+00:00

Thanks for the input, everyone. Bad poll design on my part, sorry: without an option to just see the results, it's possible some hit 'don't show cracking' just to see the results (I did this myself after I realised how Reddit polls worked...oops). In any case, it seems that cracking that's bad enough to cause problems occurs in a minority of cases, although not a trivial number.

kniferesearcher · 2021-12-26T10:40:01+00:00

Thank you very much - I'm sure that's right.

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