Thank you so much !

Thank you so much ! Yes I often am surprised myself at how much ch time is needed to reach the vision I have for each blade.

Thank you so much, there’s a certain wildness to these blades that’s fun and challenges to work, hopefully they will be out mid January next year

Thanks ! Hopefully we will get the first group of gyuto out mid January

@@ivanyuka-japan I’ll be ready 🥰

Thank you for the details of the explanation. We confirmed with the blacksmith about the hard spot in the Kurouchi, and he said it was hard Urushi peeled off. We couldn't understand Spanish so actually we needed using the google translate but appreciate the in depth comment, it’s always good to hear new points of view and knowledge.

Hello, thank you for your response. I apologize I wrote you in Spanish and the time it has taken me to respond. About the hard spot, I understand Urushi means lacquer. I have never seen any type of lacquer achieving the hardness we see here, indeed I haven't seen anything of organic origin which can affect diamond stones this way. Nevertheless my knowledge about Japanese working materials is very limited. I don't have any reason to discuss what the bladesmith has responded, I think I may be wrong. Sorry to waste your time this way. I order to try to solve my mistake let me explain you something about flux. Nowadays common way to forge weld steels is by using borax. It's the most effective and efficient way. But time ago blacksmiths used mixtures based in sand or only sand. They used different types of sand and mixtures, some of those mixtures used crystal too. They are not common but I still know Spanish blacksmiths who (at least sometimes) still use this method. If the smith is good there uses to be nothing wrong in using them. Depending in how has gone the welding some material can be condemned in the welding. This material uses to be cook (sorry I don't know this term name in English) and the outcome of the sand and/or cristaline condemned flux uses to be hard black spot similar to what you have seen in your blade. Sorry again for the time I have make you spent in this issue. I have a question about the diamond stones you use and sell. I'm grinding M-42 steel at 68 HRC, this steel eats common diamond whetstones very fast. I'm thinking in purchasing a very rough of your stones. Which one would suggest me to buy to perform this work? Thank you for all your patience. Jon

Video and sound quality is horrible but here you have an example of how do blacksmiths use silica based sand. This is a tutorial video of the last Spanish blacksmith school who teach all the aspects of traditional blacksmithing at highest level. They are not elegant nor fancy from today's perspective, but as they say they don't pretend to. The video is in Spanish but you can choose automatically generated English subtitles. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l86ffrWjxrzHqnU.htmlsi=SJdmEtFCapvGy00_ Regards

Thank you ! This is Part 2 of part 1 in this series

These blades did sit for a time before I started any straightening work, I feel the movement is coming from the unique characteristics in the cladding something I have not seen before in this type of sanmai, very interesting blades !

I use double fine mesh in the sink catch, and regularly flush and clean the drain

I see, thanks @@ivanyuka-japan

No this is hamaguri