u/StartingNewat30

I’ve always liked the idea of individual knife magnets for my place because my old magnetic knife block took up a bunch work space in my small European kitchen. I saw some fancy ones from Piotr the Bear and while they are seemingly top quality they are also quite expensive for an individual knife holder, at least in my opinion. Saw some way cheaper ones but unfortunately they were missing some kind of leather protection the fancy Piotr ones had. I had some leftover pleather around and figured I make my own poor man version again.

Obviously goes without saying they are not even close quality wise compared to the Piotr ones but I think it worked out alright. Good enough for me at least.

Both the double sided tape and the magnets are strong enough that I don’t worry about anything falling down.

Figured I’d share because I think it’s neat.

Also: still looking for a takamura sg2 petty 🥲

Knives are from left to right:

AliExpress ginsan 210mm gyuto
Takamura VG10 180mm gyuto
Hatsukokoro Ryuhyo Kurozome SG2 180mm Bunka

Bought this wooden magnetic knife holder from Amazon a few months ago and even though I was somewhat carefully taking them off and putting them back on, I noticed small scratches appearing on my knives and the wood getting scratched up. Don’t get me wrong, knives are tools and will scratch up slightly eventually anyway but it bugged me. Bought some cheap leather online and cut it to the right size and glued it on.

Not a as fancy as some of the (quite expensive) ones I saw online but good enough for me.

Also got some individual magnetic knife holders coming that I’ll do the same with. If I like how they turn out I’ll post them too.

Knives from left to right are:

AliExpress Ginsan silver 3 210mm Gyuto (project knife)
Takamura VG10 180mm Gyuto
Hatsukokoro Ryuhyo Kurozome SG2 175mm Bunka

Hey im running into the issue that sometimes even though im pretty sure i have the correct inputs and timings, the cryo application of citlali isnt working out and messes up my melts.

I use the C Q cF dcF dcF dcF --dcF rotation and i'd say on average it works for me 70-80% of the time but every now and then Citlali's cryo application doesnt line up and it messes up the melt timings by sometimes milliseconds.

Rotation 1 log

Rotation 2 Log

Rotation 3 Log with messed up melts

I've attached a dps dummy log with 3 rotations, all 3 rotations have same timings but the last rotation i didnt have cryo application from Citlali between Mavuika's Burst and the Charge after it which messes up the melts.

Is this normal and just rng that i have to accept or are there ways to be more consistent? Im not doing a N1 with Citlali before i switch to Mavuika because when i do the combo never works while skipping the N1 works for me 70-80% of the time.

Appreciate if someone knowledgeable would look over the logs and maybe give me a hint why its sometimes being inconsistent.

Been getting into sharpening myself a few months ago and bought a 1000/4000 combo stone from a Japanese knife shop here locally. They are decent as far as I can judge as a beginner and definitely not one of those $20 combo stones off amazon but i saw a good deal on knivesandtools and could get both the shapton 1000 and the naniwa 3000 for ~$100. Which seemed like a good deal to me. Will prob get an atoma400 soon and slap a replacement 140 grit sheet on its back which should sort me out for flattening and fixing chips in case that ever happens.

Looking forward to try them.