Thank you for sharing the process at each stage, showing the close-ups of the bevels. There's nobody on TH-cam at Ivan's skill level, so this is a treat for everybody watching the video. Great editing, great content. Please continue to share more content like this! 🙏🏼
I thoroughly enjoyed this series. The NSK stones sure look impressive on that knife. I appreciated the nuance throughout the series in regard to the decision making processes, but I would’ve loved to have seen a bit more on the technique as you continued through this progression. Hopefully a deeper dive on that in the future. 🤞🏻
I'm upset that I didn't start watching this with afternoon coffee, it's the best time to dive in to a 40 minute video of interesting professional content. The after shots are truly showing an art form. It's beautiful. I swear that was the fastest 40 minutes I've experienced. I thought I was halfway through when Ivan said "this is the end of this series". This collection of natural stones is something like a library or museum collection. So many aren't split, cracked or chipped in a noticeably or major way it's rare for me to see. Usually you see only a few stones (speaking mainly of Japanese naturals) and even then they could be heavily split with very few being whole. The way of production takes me back to early school days when the teacher would show an educational documentary. The same vibe of comfortably casual mood and progression, but good information that's easily absorbed even for kids. It's a skill to be able to explain complicated professional stuff in a simple way. The visual production also supports so nicely the explanation. And the pacing is excellent. It's just an overall happy experience to watch it. A joy.
Thank you so much! This video was - as always - really informative and enjoyable to watch. I appreciated many moments: the definition of the 'kasumi' finish, the different ways to achieve this type of finish, with the one obtained by jnats being the most difficult. The motivations and reasons for choosing different stones, the comments regarding the different steps are always relevant, and some information really surprised me, especially the use of finger stones which, contrary to what I believed, is not at all a standard step in knife blade finishing in Japan... Despite the richness of the content, if I had to express one regret, it's the absence of the part I was most looking forward to: polishing the steel with a different stone than the one used for the cladding...After 35" of "teasing", I would have loved to see Ivan demonstrate and explain how to proceed, especially on the questions of pressure and maintaining the angle, which are so difficult...Maybe in a future video? In any case, a big thank you to Ivan and Yuka for the quality of these videos!
Thank you so much ! Yes it’s always a challenge to figure out what to include in each video as they tend to get longer and longer. We will make a note of this for future natural stone videos
Thank you Ivan and Yuka - this series was most interesting to follow and watch. I have learned so much and it's a privilege to have a master like you share you skills to all of us 🙏 I especially enjoyed the video about blade geometry!
HI Ivan, I love your videos and I really think that the content you put on the internet is extremely valuable to us knifegeeks around the world. I really appreciate the time you take to explain the different steps and techniques around what you do and what you are trying to achieve. Your polish is some of the best I've ever seen! Thank you again fror the effort you (two) are putting into those videos and I really hope you will keep creating content for us for the future. Kind regards from Bulgaria
Thank you so much for your kind words and support. It is an honor to receive high praise from you and it encourages me to sharpen my skills and make videos!
Every part of sharpening has its own fun points, but still it is definitely the most enjoyable part where all the hard work up to that point is completed in one piece!
@@ivanyuka-japan while not even remotely close to Ivan’s level, I share the same passion for sharpening/ polishing and usually my jnats tell me I have to go back to 400 grit 😂
Thank you for another awesome video!! I preordered one of your funaki knives and I’m beyond excited to receive it. Watching this video makes that excitement grow even stronger. Can’t wait to see what’s next!
Thank you so much for your enthusiasm and support! I'm glad to hear you've ordered a Funaki knife. Thank you for your patience, I’m working on it and hope you’ll like it.
Is there any chances that you'd visit the topic of polishing with a fundamental video? I've seen lots of sharpening fundamental videos but not one about polishing
I watched everything on this channel, some videos several times. Currently I am with my Nishida Daisuke Shirogami 1 gyuto on 400 - 800 stage. I received Ohira Kiita fingerstones from a friend - I wonder what the final effect will look like on my knife. It's my first time doing this and I would like to thank you very much for providing a lot of valuable information. I hope that my work will be at least a little close to what I saw here ;)
I am a big fan of your work. I am 44 years old and two months in on my sharpening journey. There is so much too learn. Do you have any tips that you can share? 🙏🏼
Amazing results. I'm curious what's the secret aside from +30 years of experience. 😅 When I'm polishing my knives, the kireha looks uniform/good up to 800-1000 grit. Above that (3000+) some strange lines and uniformities occurs. What may be my problem? Bad geometry on lower grits? To much pressure on higher grits? Bad techbiqye/angle? Mix of all the above?
Wow. Im blown away by the details and dedication u showed polishing someone else knife. Just out of curiosity, what was the total time u spent doing what u did for this knife?
really fine work but I feel that you overcomplicate and extend it into a lengthier more involved process than required to each the same end result and I believe this is simply because you seem to enjoy it. I
Thanks so much for the insight into my work, for me, my work is fairly straight forward and I continually strip down the processes and refine the techniques and tools used. So what used to take for example 5 hrs can be now done in 2hrs with greater efficiency and higher quality results.
Hey Ivan, THX for sharing your experience. It would be fine when you're provide about the knives (which steel, HRC, ...) What do thinking, how many generations can use this giant aoto😂 and can you give us an idea about the cost (I've really no idea, but it looks expensive) and the last question, after you prepared the stones you've ever checked the flatness if the surface with an straightedge🤔 Cheers from 🇦🇹
Thanks in the first video of this series I provide the steel and details of the knife unfortunately I don’t know the HRC of the Mazaki gyuto I think the Aoto when I fought it was about ¥200,000, and yes I check all the stones with a straight edge as well as every thing else I’m using to flatten the stones
If you mean on the Japanese natural stones Oli would be detrimental to the stone as well as other liquids other than water, due to the very porous nature of the stones.
Thank you for sharing the process at each stage, showing the close-ups of the bevels. There's nobody on TH-cam at Ivan's skill level, so this is a treat for everybody watching the video. Great editing, great content. Please continue to share more content like this! 🙏🏼
Thank you for your kind words! Your support encourages us to continue sharing more videos.
I thoroughly enjoyed this series. The NSK stones sure look impressive on that knife. I appreciated the nuance throughout the series in regard to the decision making processes, but I would’ve loved to have seen a bit more on the technique as you continued through this progression. Hopefully a deeper dive on that in the future. 🤞🏻
I feel like that one corner of the workshop is worth more than my entire house and everything in it!
I'm upset that I didn't start watching this with afternoon coffee, it's the best time to dive in to a 40 minute video of interesting professional content. The after shots are truly showing an art form. It's beautiful. I swear that was the fastest 40 minutes I've experienced. I thought I was halfway through when Ivan said "this is the end of this series".
This collection of natural stones is something like a library or museum collection. So many aren't split, cracked or chipped in a noticeably or major way it's rare for me to see. Usually you see only a few stones (speaking mainly of Japanese naturals) and even then they could be heavily split with very few being whole.
The way of production takes me back to early school days when the teacher would show an educational documentary. The same vibe of comfortably casual mood and progression, but good information that's easily absorbed even for kids. It's a skill to be able to explain complicated professional stuff in a simple way. The visual production also supports so nicely the explanation. And the pacing is excellent. It's just an overall happy experience to watch it. A joy.
Thank you so much! Your kind words makes all these years of sharpening worth it !
Thank you so much! This video was - as always - really informative and enjoyable to watch. I appreciated many moments: the definition of the 'kasumi' finish, the different ways to achieve this type of finish, with the one obtained by jnats being the most difficult. The motivations and reasons for choosing different stones, the comments regarding the different steps are always relevant, and some information really surprised me, especially the use of finger stones which, contrary to what I believed, is not at all a standard step in knife blade finishing in Japan... Despite the richness of the content, if I had to express one regret, it's the absence of the part I was most looking forward to: polishing the steel with a different stone than the one used for the cladding...After 35" of "teasing", I would have loved to see Ivan demonstrate and explain how to proceed, especially on the questions of pressure and maintaining the angle, which are so difficult...Maybe in a future video? In any case, a big thank you to Ivan and Yuka for the quality of these videos!
Thank you so much ! Yes it’s always a challenge to figure out what to include in each video as they tend to get longer and longer. We will make a note of this for future natural stone videos
what a treat from you to us! Crazy how you only has 2K sub, you deserve more man, really appreciate your videos.
Can’t wait to see the evolution of this traditional blade 😊
Thank you Ivan and Yuka - this series was most interesting to follow and watch. I have learned so much and it's a privilege to have a master like you share you skills to all of us 🙏 I especially enjoyed the video about blade geometry!
Thank you so much !
This was a lot of fun to do and challenging at times to get the physical action of sharpening across in words.
The perfect video to spend my morning coffee with. As always, thank you for sharing and beautiful work!
Thanks so much !
HI Ivan, I love your videos and I really think that the content you put on the internet is extremely valuable to us knifegeeks around the world. I really appreciate the time you take to explain the different steps and techniques around what you do and what you are trying to achieve. Your polish is some of the best I've ever seen! Thank you again fror the effort you (two) are putting into those videos and I really hope you will keep creating content for us for the future. Kind regards from Bulgaria
Thank you so much for your kind words and support. It is an honor to receive high praise from you and it encourages me to sharpen my skills and make videos!
master approach is a different level of understanding
By far the most enjoyable part of the whole series and can’t thank you guys enough for sharing this with us!!
Awesome! We also had fun sharpening and creating this video too!
Every part of sharpening has its own fun points, but still it is definitely the most enjoyable part where all the hard work up to that point is completed in one piece!
@@ivanyuka-japan while not even remotely close to Ivan’s level, I share the same passion for sharpening/ polishing and usually my jnats tell me I have to go back to 400 grit 😂
@@komonjapan maybe getting another suita is the answer 🍺
I know exactly how you feel, as I too sometimes get put back to the previous stone when I'm sharpening!
Wonderful ❤ more of these series please 🙏🏻
Thank you for another awesome video!! I preordered one of your funaki knives and I’m beyond excited to receive it. Watching this video makes that excitement grow even stronger. Can’t wait to see what’s next!
Thank you so much for your enthusiasm and support! I'm glad to hear you've ordered a Funaki knife. Thank you for your patience, I’m working on it and hope you’ll like it.
@@ivanyuka-japan Absolutely! I’m sure I will love it. Just like I love these videos. Thanks for all the wonderful information
Is there any chances that you'd visit the topic of polishing with a fundamental video? I've seen lots of sharpening fundamental videos but not one about polishing
I watched everything on this channel, some videos several times. Currently I am with my Nishida Daisuke Shirogami 1 gyuto on 400 - 800 stage. I received Ohira Kiita fingerstones from a friend - I wonder what the final effect will look like on my knife. It's my first time doing this and I would like to thank you very much for providing a lot of valuable information. I hope that my work will be at least a little close to what I saw here ;)
Thank you so much !! We really appreciate the support !
I am a big fan of your work. I am 44 years old and two months in on my sharpening journey. There is so much too learn. Do you have any tips that you can share? 🙏🏼
Technique is more important than the stones when first learning, and don’t be afraid to make mistakes I’ve made many lol!
Amazing results.
I'm curious what's the secret aside from +30 years of experience. 😅
When I'm polishing my knives, the kireha looks uniform/good up to 800-1000 grit. Above that (3000+) some strange lines and uniformities occurs. What may be my problem? Bad geometry on lower grits? To much pressure on higher grits? Bad techbiqye/angle? Mix of all the above?
Unfortunately no secrets just daily and relentless sharpening
Wow. Im blown away by the details and dedication u showed polishing someone else knife. Just out of curiosity, what was the total time u spent doing what u did for this knife?
Thank you, I think in total it’s about 6-8hrs
inspiring work ! I'm always curious how do you keep the blade from rusting sharpening for long hours ?
I tend to dry and check the blades often during sharpening but I also use baking Soda in water for long polishing sessions
@@ivanyuka-japan thanks for the tips! I will try it on my next session.
Hi Ivan, thanks so much for sharing your insights! It was most interesting! Keep going!👍🏻
geazie .. molto istruttivo...
Hey for that Ohira stone that took you 5 hours to pick. Is that a suita?
Yes its suita
really fine work but I feel that you overcomplicate and extend it into a lengthier more involved process than required to each the same end result and I believe this is simply because you seem to enjoy it. I
Thanks so much for the insight into my work, for me, my work is fairly straight forward and I continually strip down the processes and refine the techniques and tools used. So what used to take for example 5 hrs can be now done in 2hrs with greater efficiency and higher quality results.
Hey Ivan,
THX for sharing your experience.
It would be fine when you're provide about the knives (which steel, HRC, ...)
What do thinking, how many generations can use this giant aoto😂 and can you give us an idea about the cost (I've really no idea, but it looks expensive)
and the last question, after you prepared the stones you've ever checked the flatness if the surface with an straightedge🤔
Cheers from 🇦🇹
Thanks in the first video of this series I provide the steel and details of the knife unfortunately I don’t know the HRC of the Mazaki gyuto
I think the Aoto when I fought it was about ¥200,000, and yes I check all the stones with a straight edge as well as every thing else I’m using to flatten the stones
@@ivanyuka-japan
THX for answering, you've invested a lot of money 👍🍻
Cheers from 🇦🇹
Would it make any difference if one where to use a fluid other than water on the stones ? Something to reduce friction for instance like oil or windex
If you mean on the Japanese natural stones
Oli would be detrimental to the stone as well as other liquids other than water, due to the very porous nature of the stones.
Is the knife flat on the stone when polishing?
The blade road is flat to convex, so the majority of the blade road is flat then raised during polishing to blend to convex
What is NSK?
NSK Kogyo is a diamond stone maker in Japan. We mainly use their stones for sharpening other than natural stones.