Don't worry about hijacking, I think those look beautiful. Are those Assab K120 or did you do blue? As an aside, does Konobu do regular white steel?Brian wrote:Haha, I can imagine you are the most eager to receive the Kiyohisas.
Delicate can be good for certain operations, all depends I suppose. My old stock Kikuhiromaru are stocky.
Here's the teaser photos So sent to me of the Tsukis.
I've never really thought about a 10 set of paring chisels.....until receiving these photos upon which my first thought was 'I should have ordered a 10 set'. LOL....so maybe...
I'll also take a few photos in the shop so you can see the size of them by comparison to other things in the shop.
Sorry to hijack.
The backs required minimal stock removal, but not just a brush on the polisher I'm afraid. I've only done one and ran a couple others across a finishing stone. The first one I fully prepped required a bit of flattening on my 1200 stone because the last .5-1mm was cupped a tiny bit. Certainly not a chore to clean up although I would've loved for them to be deadnuts out of the box.
I've received a couple parers as well and that rosewood is sexy. I think I'm going with boxwood for every handle from here on out, I just love the look and feel. Of course, I likely won't be ordering anymore chisels for a looooong time as I feel my elementary needs have been met x10.
I really like the Konobu's but as Chris said, they look delicate so I'll have to work them up from smaller projects to larger things and make sure they handle it without issue. Of course, I have smaller hands so these may fit the bill perfectly