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.
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.
Thanks, very interesting! The technique is very different from what I’ve seen from Western honers (even for kamisoris).
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
I didn’t know that-very cool 👍