Name: What I Learned When I Damaged a New Handcrafted Japanese Knife
Uploaded: 2020-04-04T05:17:31.000Z
Duration: 31 min 20 s
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Hello world so I bought some hand-crafted  traditionally made Japanese Knives

Past simple

and I kind of messed a couple of them  so I want to tell you about that story and umm

To-infinitive

I wanted to tell you because I think the  world of knives is a bit intimidating

and there's a lot to learn and I'm  a total newbie to all of this

So I thought bringing you along that  journey of learning that I've had

might help someone else who's new to  knives and especially Japanese Knives I think

I will make mistakes so I apologize for  them I try to learn as much as possible

so if I make mistakes I'm very sorry about that

and this will be kind of a more of a raw  unedited video or less edited video so

this is the condition of the knife literally  two weeks after I gave it to my sister-in-law

to get to that I going to have to rewind a bit  my wife and I were set to go to Echizen

where among a few traditional crafts  they do they hand-craft knives

as my sister-in-law was going to watch  our kids while we were away we thought

"one of those knives will be a great gift"  especially since she cooks a lot

she was in fact very nervous about owning  an expensive knife and told us not to buy her one

umm but when we went to the knife factory

Ryusen Hamono and met with the CEO the  knife master we asked him the question of

Can an everyday cook buy and use one of these things?  and this is what he had to say

I understand that customers are nervous  to use these thin, beautiful knives.

But we make tools to cut food  so that you can eat and live,

So please feel free and don't  be scared of using one.

We have our clients who have been  using our knives for 20 to 30 years.

Some mothers even pass their knives  on to their daughters

So with all that in mind my wife  and I excitedly spend a couple hours

testing out all these knives you see  on this cutting board and ended up

picking a sentoku knife that we  felt was best for our needs.

Now I don't know enough about knives  to know if this is a laser or not

but what I do know is when you have it and you  go to slice it's umm it's really cuts nicely so

It's also very lightweight so we liked it  sharp, lightweight, What's not to like?

and it was actually the cheapest  out of all the knives

the cheapest being about 150USD so we decided  to buy one not only for us but for my sister-in-law

and only a week later we both  had issues the knives were rusting

ah for my case it was my daughter she was  you know cutting up something at night

she left it in a pool of water the next  day "oh my goodness it's rusting"

but I looked online and I remembered  a video that Jun had about

the rusty knife and fixing it so I looked at that  and there was I reddit post attached to it

where somebody told about all the equipment  they bought so I got rust erasers and

I got stropping stuff and we got some  cream and I was able to

kind of get all the rust out there's a few little  kind of like parkmarks left but I think it's

almost almost like new but yeah  I did mess it up and recover it but

it was my sister-in-laws knife that was in a lot  worse of a coniditon and I'll let her explain

after washing it, I put it in the dish rack.

We thought what should we do,  and then came to Greg.

Because what we didn't know and  it's a learning curve is that

you know such a hard delicate blade umm you  can't sharpen with one of these things or with a

honing steel you need to use wet  stones which I now have

but the problem was that he chipped the knife  as well as rusted it so it was way beyond my

but the words of the CEO of Ryusen  Hamono kind of sprang into my mind

we are here to fix it for you, as our products  need to maintain its quality

About the maintenance, you don't always need to send it to us.

We teach you tips so that  you can do it by yourself

We are happy to give you advice  so it's not difficult at all.

So I shipped it to Ryusen Hamono and not  one week later it came back

and so we got it back right here so this is the fixed  knife now so this is her first time seeing it

Apparently after one pass through it chipped.

On top of that he didn't even tell me, so it made me mad.

It got all jagged just after it was gifted to us.

- [Mother in background] Did they fix it for you? - [Daughter] Yeah, fantastic.

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