Originally Posted by Bah Humbug

Knife content incoming...

I left my old travel knives at mom's because we don't go to races anymore. The gyuto had gotten dull from its factory edge but the only stone I had here was a JKI Gesshin 1k/6k combo that turns out to have "somehow" gotten clogged with stainless crap and is in serious need of a cleaning with a diamond plate. So I ordered a Shapton Pro 1k (thanks Amazon; sometimes the evil empire is handy) and fixed it (and her two good knives I got her too). The Tanaka Ginsanko is... unpleasant on the stones and harder to get a good edge on. I am tempted to improve it but everything is OOS anyway.

The nice side is, AG commented that it was MUCH better than it was. She has gotten spoilt; it was still far sharper than anything she had prior to me.