The Far-Eastern Wood Butcher: Prime cuts from the far east.

      This review does not include a cut test because: 1. How sharp the knife comes from the factory have very little to do with how well it is designed. I could sharpen mild steel until it will slice paper. 2. Production variables (this includes heat-treat consistency) will null any singular test done on just one knife. 3. I believe every knife user must know how to bring a edge to his/her satisfaction. 4. The best place to hear about Ontario's AUS 8 steel's performance is from forums, from multiple people cutting a myriad of material, and their comparison to other steels. "..comes outta box raazorr sharp! I mean really..really sharp!..." another: "..this steel is crap..don't hold an edge..", "..in between 440A and VG10..IMHO..", you get the picture. Take the average feedback. You won't be far off. Here I am, saying what I really think of this knife. Trying not to cover what was not already covered, which is...little. Very li...

  A piece of stag among the bag of dog chews I purchased online. Frankly, I could not tell the difference between the antlers of Elk, Moose, Deer, etc. I only know they call a male deer a stag, or a buck. I'm not sure if female deer (doe?) has antlers. Well, that stirs my curiousity. Googled. Nope. Maybe a small nub, but that's all. But.. a female reindeer does have antlers, and they are actually caribou...but that's a topic for another day.   What I do know: It's cheaper to buy dog chews than antlers labelled as knife scales. Well, they can't charge you $25 for a split piece of horn which you're going to throw to your dog. It felt wrong to do that. Knife scales, that's another story.       I really don't know why I bought the huge bag of antlers. Especially since I have not completed forging even one knife. Many of my blanks are either half forged, broken from cold hammering, or semi finished awaiting heat treat. But I see no harm ...

  We always see westerners fussing with Japanese Planes on youtube. What if.....a temple builder in Kyoto found a  Marples plane in the woods? Hmm...       A plane this. Maybe English . Now I wil l show how I shut plane ire guchi (mouth). But of course, this is for anti-tear out reasons.   But before I will show, I show you...the Brand. Marples!Ahh...Sheffield. So, I know English.  Reminated steel and iron!. Just like Nihon Kanna..look..nice..but now, it cut nice, not. Maybe after I shut Guchi mouth.   I have some Rosewood moulding from garbage can of neighbour. I cannot ask permission. Much embarrassment I think. Suitable. I think, for shutting the kanna mouth. so..   Now I mark shape of Rosewood on bottom plane. Remember, for reason of anti-thick lines, please use mechanical pencil only. Much better,I consider  kiridashi kogatana. You think?  Now..you can see the shape. Much much bettar. ...

“Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.” -John Ruskin. Substitute the word "books" with "blogs", and perhaps you should stop reading. I did my part and you are warned. No, I can't refund 4 minutes of your life. F or the most part of my woodworking life, I've kept my loose chisels in felt lined drawers. (I mean excess chisels purchased on impulse: Those of cast steel, those of boxwood, those octagonal London snobs, those ergo grips that promises an orgasm with each mortise, the socketed, the tanged, the handle-less tangs, the long paring ones, those curious crank-necks, the basic pig stickers, the vintage ferrule-less-...you know. I know. Some folks have too many hammers or smoothing planes or trammels. I'm a chisel guy. But the ones that are constantly on the move live in a canvas tool roll. I like the look of a chisel roll, except that the edges tend to slice the...