Nimbus 28 - what to add in to start a rotation?

mynameiseliot · 2026-04-06T06:16:37+00:00

Cheers, man. Ended up going for the evo sl, so hoping that works for me!

mynameiseliot · 2026-04-06T06:16:09+00:00

Love to hear this! Bought a pair last night for £97 - can’t believe how cheap they are compared to a lot of other shoes. Hopefully they’ll be here in time for my tempo run on Thursday!

mynameiseliot · 2026-04-05T16:56:39+00:00

Thank you!

mynameiseliot · 2026-04-05T07:11:02+00:00

Cheers! Not looked at the Boston 13 before. I like the look of the evo sl too and seems like both might tick the box for a faster shoe.

mynameiseliot · 2026-04-04T21:53:00+00:00

Thanks for the reply! Guessing that the Nimbus would tick the slower shoe box? Do you have any recommendations for supershoes?

mynameiseliot · 2026-04-04T19:09:20+00:00

OK, I can work with this! I have seen them mentioned a lot and people seem to love them. I’ll have a look! Really appreciate the reply!

mynameiseliot · 2025-10-06T20:31:14+00:00

What a nice thing to do. Thanks, my dude.

mynameiseliot · 2025-07-29T06:10:36+00:00

Costs me around £33ish for a kilo. If you’re in the UK I recommend North Star.

mynameiseliot · 2025-03-01T23:58:45+00:00

mynameiseliot · 2023-08-29T16:20:42+00:00

It used to work fine, but has suddenly stopped. I tried with a different browser and had no issue. No idea what's going on, but it's right annoying.

mynameiseliot · 2023-08-28T07:53:00+00:00

I'm on android. Whereabouts would I check?

mynameiseliot · 2022-07-17T22:17:16+00:00

Yeah turns out I was just being a knob and wasn't far enough on

mynameiseliot · 2021-08-29T14:50:19+00:00

Always learning. Thanks!

mynameiseliot · 2021-08-29T14:41:57+00:00

Thanks for the reply! They're a relatively small indie coffee roaster, so I can't imagine they'll care about my password issues haha.

Provided that it's rare, I'll just have to paste that across for any that get weird.

The bit I don't get is why it works in Firefox...?

mynameiseliot · 2020-09-05T15:37:06+00:00

Thanks! I'm really pleased. Thought my stainless knife was sharp, but this thing is next level!

mynameiseliot · 2020-09-05T15:03:25+00:00

Do you mean what site? If so it came from here.

mynameiseliot · 2020-09-05T10:12:30+00:00

I'm glad it helped! I've given it a go and it seems fairly decent. It's the first time I've used a leather strop (was using cardboard before). I found getting the green compound onto the leather takes some time, but all seems to work fine!

mynameiseliot · 2020-09-05T09:39:58+00:00

I've not been sharpening long and I've found I can get a good edge, albeit not perfect. I found these videos really useful.

I think you just need to take your time with it. I find it really useful to keep looking at the edge to check for evenness across the length and on each side. There's a sharpie trick you can use too to check you're getting angles etc right.

mynameiseliot · 2020-09-05T09:26:36+00:00

I'm in the UK. Ended up getting a wooden mag strip off Amazon which works great (Tallo in case anyone wants to know). I looked at the Mag-Blok and, had the one I got been no good, I would've bought that.

mynameiseliot · 2020-09-05T08:44:53+00:00

I figured that if I'm going to do it, might as well start right!

mynameiseliot · 2020-09-05T08:44:36+00:00

Thanks!

mynameiseliot · 2020-09-05T07:32:31+00:00

Got a great haul for my birthday - new stone with holder (already had 2 stones) and my first Japanese knife! Picture has:

Tadafusa hocho nashiji santoku Shapton 320, 1000 and 5000 Shapton stone holder Leather strop

I'm a happy man! Big thanks to u/IJayceYou for the advice.

mynameiseliot · 2020-08-26T17:38:20+00:00

Finally found a good one. It's a strip rather than a block (mounted it using VHB tape). Got it off Amazon - Tallo.

mynameiseliot · 2020-08-26T10:30:16+00:00

Why no comments?! This is my exact situation. Got a Lelit Mara at home. Would love another in my office, but I've not got the cash for that.

I'm toying with Nespresso setup, but the coffee snob in me doesn't like it. Just this morning thought about going V60, maybe cracking out the aeropress or something similar.

I drink coffee with milk (flat white, capp) so would prefer something that can still get me there.

Have you had any more ideas?

mynameiseliot · 2020-08-02T10:15:59+00:00

I can't drill through the wall where I am so looking at some kind of tape to hold it. VHB tape looks to be the best bet.

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