Japanese Knife Sharpening Blog

When we venture into using Japanese kitchen knives we often find that we’re interested in sharpening our own knives and begin searching for ...

Here is a recent project knife. It's a Hiromoto Aogami Super Steel gyuto - 240mm where we replaced it's stock handle scales with bla...

I had a request to post some microscopic edge images that I shot a few years ago using a QX5 USB scope that my friend Curtis gifted me. Than...

If you sharpen knives and have stones sooner or later you'll likely want to mount a stone to a base of some sort. You may have a favorit...

It's a fact, that one bad sharpening job will turn your expensive Japanese knife into a butter knife or worse. We've seen a great nu...