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What angle should I sharpen?

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    The sharpening angle depends on your preference. An acute angle is sharper, and an obtuse angle is more resistant to chipping. If you sharpen so that a damascus pattern touches the whetstone, the damascus pattern will be scratched. If you don't want to do that, sharpen so that there is a gap between the whetstone and the damascus pattern. After purchase, the sharpness became dull and needed to be sharpened for the first time or several times, lightly sharpen only the edge to restore its sharpness. However, if only the edge is sharpened many times, the edge will...

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Started to offer Kanjyo knives

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Started to offer Kanjyo knives

We started selling Kanjyo knives on May 17, 2020. The knives are made in Seki city, has many kind of knives, and many kind of steels. For example, ZDP189, HAP40, SG2, VG10, White steel, Blue steel. We are looking forward to arriving many kind of the knives!

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Master Shinji Fujishita Forging Knives with incredible skills!!!!

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Master Shinji Fujishita Forging Knives with incredible skills!!!!

It is very very difficult to forge blades to the shape that oneself expects. So a lot of unnecessary parts is discarded. But look!!! His incredible skills!!!

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Flattening Blade - Blacksmith Sukenari

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Flattening Blade - Blacksmith Sukenari

After forging, blade is not flat.They flatten the blades with a hammer. 

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How to clearly come out the Damascus pattern?

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How to clearly come out the Damascus pattern?

How to clearly come out Japanese damascus pattern? Look at the photo and compare the left and right of the photo. Blacksmith Sukenari or other blacksmiths use shot blast. After that, beautiful damascus pattern come out. Please take a look at the movie. 

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