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Woah!

You are the best at knife sharpening. Thank you, I learned a lot from you.

Great to see you back Riki - Hope you do many more of these Japanese visit videos! I like the long format & that it shows you just as you are rather than over-edited. That was a feature of your earlier videos - a very authentic Riki with all his perfect imperfections. Sure - it's a little rough, but that will improve as you do more of them & figure out what to include & what to leave out. You definitely need to do something about the translator - both so you get more out of your visits, and so you have more to share with us. I wonder whether some kind of translation software might help, either on your phone or on your computer afterwards. I'm surprised what a good job Google Translate does with Japanese text, but I'm not sure if that applies to spoken Japanese. Keep up the good work, and I hope to see you again soon! - Tom

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Looks like you're back! Awesome!

I've seen some people use hot-melt glue (granules), which they fill the handle with, before sliding the blade tang into it, heated as you do... Do you use the same technique?

23:40s Translator asks if the steel in his hand is very hard. He says that it is not really a matter or being hard but that while "...most steels will melt at about 1,200C, this one will not even stretch at that temperature..." something like that.

I would love to own one of your knives. Unfortunately, it’s not in my future unless I win the lottery. So that being said if I do win the lottery, I will at least two of your knives. Unless you have some kind of fantastic giveaway. 😉. 😁

Glad to see you back...

Hey its good to see you back! Missed your work! 👍

What the sh-t would anyone need that quality?

There's a pritty large imperfection on the knife.

I'm happy that you are active again. You brought me into the world of kitchen knives years ago with the Messermeister olive. My first proper kitchen knife.

Do you pin it after doing the burn in? Or do you glue it?

Great video! Loved the rawness of it! Glad you’re back! Looking forward to your content brother!

That doesn’t seem to hard to be honest. The cladding is San-Mai in itself and ground at an angle, and cut lengthwise.

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After seeing you praise Quantum TV on his channel, I had to unsub from you. The guy is a nut case and you praise him.

A year wait is easy, yes please

Moronic waste of $$$

I'd prefer the cutting edge run the entire length. The large chunk of unsharpened steel isn't aesthetically pleasing to me.

It's actually low quality Steele but the folding process makes it high quality.

Anyone who spends 3000 or 4000 dollars for a single knife. Wtf I like knives but not that much

I usually don’t care about pattern-welded steel but master Hinoura’s river jump is just gorgeous piece of steel. I absolutely love the idea behind it: something that can’t be done with a machine.

Interesting as a puzzle, broken windshield as an art piece

Why would anyone buy the nanohone instead of the atoma? The only thing the nanohone can do is flattening stones. Try to repair a chipped knife on that thing.

There are really cheap diamond plates on Amazon. Like a set of 6 for 20€. I glued them on some plywood because they´re just about 1mm thin and they´re definitely good enough for flattening stones and sharpening. They´re just too coarse for polishing, but that´s where the chosera 3000 comes into play.

Oh yuhhhh, longer the video the better, miss you man, glad you and the family are well. 👍🏽

Trop classe !

Nah, mid. I prefer more artistic pattern welding.

Does master Hinoura still make these?

Big deal, its just metal and anyone can make it

Dude the high end knife market is insane!

After really watching the video, I can honestly say that I do like the new format. I like the fact that you get a true sense of the feeling and vibe of traveling through Japan and visiting these amazing artisans, because unfortunately I do get the feeling that the true knife maker is a disappearing kind. I would love to see more content of the history of the different makers, their future goals and maybe even a run down of the makers and sharpeners to watch moving forward. The ones trailblazing into new directions, but most definitely also the ones that want to stay true to the old school tradition.

This is not true. You're watching too much Inuyasha

Flattening stones is important for wood workers but for sharpening kitchen knives not so much. To sharpen a plane iron the stone has to be very flat because it has to take shavings that often are just a few thousands of a mm thick. But even for that, I don´t have to flatten harder stones every time. A King stone, yes but a Chosera, a Shapton or the much harder oil stones will sharpen quite a few chisels and plane irons before they´re not flat enough anymore. All that doesn´t matter much for kitchen knives. The double sided King stone I use in the kitchen has worn about 2mm in the middle now and I´m thinking about flattening it just to make it look nice again. It still works perfectly.

Loved the format. Subtitles on Japanese would be great, if you manage to get someone translate it.

You can buy raw tamahagane, its expensive and hard to get, but absolutely available to everyone if they know where to look.

I do like this format very much but as others have said, just good to see you back. I do make slab tables, let's talk

Anyone can get tamahagane. It is not rare. It is only Iron forged from river ore. Anyone can make it. Sword makers get it from a shrine. But thar is only if you need it certified if you intend to enter a Shinsa competition in japan. Sounds like you believe any bullshit people tell you.

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The format is ok, but the translator should be forced to extract more information.

Knife nerds empty their wallets

Let's go brother, awesome vid. Don't forget to visit some legendary sharpeners, who solely sharpen blades, that would be dope!

Hi.. are you planning to make another run of knives? Love the look and profile.. it's sad to see that even Masamoto is moving away from the more aggressive profile for their iconic KS.

Not bad at all considering it's your first time 👍

9:32 The first word on the handle might read パドック which might refer to African Padauk wood.

Inspiration 😂😂 just say copy n paste man inspiration & bs what a clown 🤡

So where's the wait list? Put ne on it pls