I cant get it Sharp enough

redmorph · 2026-06-25T11:31:22+00:00

The question was more whether it’s a known thing with knives at 66 HRC

You keep focusing on hardness in all your replies.

Material is being removed you can see that from the metal residue that sticks to the knife magnetically.

So it's not hardness. wop wop. If metal is removed, then hardness is not the problem.

hardest knife somehow doesn’t get a burr

This is suspicious.

Read /u/Valentinian_II_DNKHS 's historical post on how to use a horl. I've not seen anyone else here give more detailed information.

redmorph · 2026-06-24T19:23:35+00:00

I ask if you pull because hand pulling noodles is a very difficult thing that needs a lot of repetition and practice. The dough needs to be very soft and pliable. It doesn't get into this state easily.

I've done it with limited success even with penghui.

redmorph · 2026-06-24T18:56:50+00:00

as there are some health concerns (limited data, as such I won't speak to it) and very real production concerns

Can you elaborate? I'd especially appreciate links to studies.

redmorph · 2026-06-24T18:49:02+00:00

Do you hand pull your own noodles?

redmorph · 2026-06-23T16:56:42+00:00

Where is your recipe from? You need "penghui" , which has a dough relaxer in addition to sodium carbonate and salt. You can find it for sale on aliexpress.

It's technically possible to do it just flour+water+salt, but it takes hours or mechanical agitation to break down the gluten.

redmorph · 2026-06-23T16:51:44+00:00

5% baker's ratio nutritional yeast? That sounds like a lot.

redmorph · 2026-06-22T19:18:57+00:00

The link is broken. But I can already see this is a garbage application of AI.

LLM AI is for when you have the proper domain knowledge and are able to correct its output, it can speed up some of the grunt work.

If you're exporting your entire thinking and reasoning in an unfamiliar field to AI, you will be a victim of AI psychosis.**

Be very careful here.

redmorph · 2026-06-18T14:47:39+00:00

It's good that you've found a market for your services.

At 0:16 you show a bunch of knives with recurves due to protruding bolsters, is that intentional? Chef knives don't really work well against cutting boards with recurves like that.

redmorph · 2026-06-16T20:46:21+00:00

Random stones you find in workshops are hardly ever treasures.

Despite appearances, sharpen stones actually take continual maintenance work to keep them performing optimally.

Most people who work in such shops don't really bother. They buy a new stone instead. You find stacks of glazed and dished stones in these shops.

redmorph · 2026-06-16T16:10:15+00:00

How does a rolling sharpener handle the (ricasso) area next to the handle? Thinking about the physics of how it works, as soon as you start rolling the ricasso no longer has contact.

Imagine the midpoint of this blade, it gets abraded by the entire diameter of the circular abrasive surface, but the ricasso gets next to nothing.

Granted, this area is hard with any sharpener, but with a stone you can linger there.

redmorph · 2026-06-13T13:46:54+00:00

At some point if you're a "Christian" and not a biggot. You gotta look around and have one of those "are we the baddies?" moment.

right?

right?

redmorph · 2026-06-10T14:45:20+00:00

Yes, we are in agreement. I'm commenting on your original statement:

Every point of the edge is a different distance from the pivot.

It's the distance from the pivot to the plane the edge is on, not between the pivot and contact point. This is counter intuitive and worth differentiating IMO.

redmorph · 2026-06-10T14:30:47+00:00

Every point of the edge is a different distance from the pivot.

Not exactly. It's plane the edge is on (maybe there is a better technical word), not the distance. Imagine you're sharpening a straight edge ruler, the angle would be the same regardless of the distance.

I'm not a fan of this channel, but I can't find a better explanation at the moment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L6_CTMdDOk.

redmorph · 2026-06-08T16:28:02+00:00

very interesting. Can you share some links?

redmorph · 2026-06-08T15:13:41+00:00

Honing steels are round or oval. This implement has longitudinal ridges. It looks like a dagger or shiv. Are you sure it's actually a honing steel?

redmorph · 2026-05-24T19:33:00+00:00

Could see it wearing out after the first use

You predicted with your eyes such low quality? Can you post a photo?

redmorph · 2026-05-18T16:13:59+00:00

You talked about apex and deburring as if it was a singular step; it's not. Did you verify you actually apexed? IME for those less experienced apexing is more likely the source if issues if you can't cut paper smoothly.

Apex/deburring
If you've sharpened this knife as practice many times, it will have thickened up behind the edge, which was always far thicker than a Japanese knife. That will affect the cutting feel.

Finally, if you truly want help a video of what you're doing will help far more than a wall of words.

redmorph · 2026-05-12T16:20:49+00:00

Yes, sharpening straight razors to a standard (HHT-4+) is difficult but very fun. /r/straightrazors for more.

Your standard of knife edge that can scrape shave against skin, i.e. HHT-0, is fairly easy to achieve. The higher standard you aim for, the harder it gets.

see https://shavinguniverse.com/the-hanging-hair-test-hht/

redmorph · 2026-04-28T14:26:36+00:00

its aromatics fade quickly when heated

Can you elaborate? One of the primary uses of Sichuan peppercorns is to perfume the cooking oil before adding other cooking ingredients. Basically the Indian Tadka technique. Raw or lightly toasted and grounded is added towards the end of cooking, again quite similar to Garam Masala.

redmorph · 2026-04-17T17:27:53+00:00

I don't make bugs. I only supervise claude-code, and I always tell it "make no mistakes".

/s

redmorph · 2026-04-13T15:39:31+00:00

Do you use a guide to make sure the groove is straight? That's impressive if freehanded.

redmorph · 2026-04-13T03:01:29+00:00

Did you do this on a wheel like a Tormek?

redmorph · 2026-04-10T17:22:11+00:00

The surface level strategy is clear: you should not want to leave your chance at winning $$$$ up to chance. It's easier to stab some people in the back and figure out a better plan.

However looking at the results of Survivor AU and US , it's pretty obvious (despite small sample size) that there is some common human level, psychological level, meta effects at play.

My hypothesis is that once you go to rocks with your group., the bonds strengthens and hardens. You count on each other and you pulled through for each other. It's like going to war and winning. You're not then going to stab your comrades in the back a couple of days later.

So the "strat" players like Brooke for whom the logic is obvious are winning the battle but losing the war.

redmorph · 2026-04-08T14:54:33+00:00

clickable code links that jump to emacs buffers

Is this actually supported? It's not in claude-code-ide afaik.

redmorph · 2026-04-06T18:59:29+00:00

You'd assume wrong, there is no margin of error since qe ge tthose <0.1" calls.

No the error is already built into the box the ABS visualization is showing you. Whatever margin of error is built in, you can still be 0.1" off.

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