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Honing tutorial by a kamisori maker (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago by HomeAwayFromHone to c/straight_razors

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Ran into this by chance, pretty interesting: I was a little surprised both by the circles and the 1:1 ratio between omote/ura. Also interesting is how he uses a diamond pasted strop seemingly not to refine the edge but more just to deburr it.

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[–] PorkButtsNTaters666 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, very interesting! The technique is very different from what I've seen from Western honers (even for kamisoris).

[–] HomeAwayFromHone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It does remind me of Iwasaki though, I think he had a similar deburring-with-paste thing in his classic book, been a while since I've seen that linked--well worth checking out if you haven't: https://naturalwhetstones.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Honing-Razors-and-Nihonkamisori-by-Kousuke-Iwasaki.pdf

[–] PorkButtsNTaters666 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't know that-very cool 👍