After yesterday’s purchase, the conversation went something like this:
Me - think I’ll need to buy a knife block or magnetic wall rack or something.
Ann - what about the one I bought you on your birthday about ten years back?
Me - really, did you - where’s that then?
Ann - in a box in the loft along with all the other stuff you’ve not used.
Sweet. Magnetic wall strip definitely the way forward if possible.
Bought a new toy today:
145mm blue steel utility knife made by Shimo Kamo. They didn’t quite have what I was looking for in kiritsuke and paring knives, but are expecting a delivery in the next few weeks, which should hopefully contain a kiritsuke that’s the right length. Apparently with artisanal Japanese makers you don’t send them an order, they send you an array of knives or something. Seems an odd way to do things but there we go.
The hunt for a teeny, tiny paring knife goes on.
Did I not mention that white steel is superior to blue?
Don’t you start, tool forums have gone to war over that 
Anyone taken a punt ?
Seems expensive for what you get tbh. Their 120mm utility is £160, and 60hrc. The one I just bought was 130€, longer, harder and hand made by a master craftsman.
If stainless is important, I’d go here first: Tojiro Senkou DP (Flash) 13cm Utility Knife - Knife Types from Knives from Japan UK
I bought two Mac knives from couteauxduchef. They’re excellent - wickedly sharp out of the box & feel very good in the hand. Thanks for the tip Jon 
Sweet! I might still go for their 8cm paring knife - the Japanese really don’t seem to like making super small knives, and 8cm is about as small as I’ve been able to find aside from bird’s beak style knives.
I’d also add these guys into your repetoire for future purchases - it was one of their shops I went to yesterday and the guy couldn’t have been more helpful: https://www.couteaujaponais.com/
Thanks!
Just bought this
Global Knife Sharpener https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01J1ZOOVU
I’m not really one for these things, having always preferred stones, but fuck me, this works superbly!
I gave up on stones and went this way too.
I have the Wusthof one and it’s bloody brilliant.
The Global says “Asian or Japanese style knives”.
Any ideas on what would be good for European e.g. Sabatier knives please? Wusthof?
Fuck Global, not touching that shite since the handles snapped on 3 out of the 4 knives I bought.
Cunts.
This is what I use for my wusthof, even after a weekend at lopwell it’s still sharp from when I last sharpened it months ago.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wusthof-2-Stage-Through-Knife-Sharpener/dp/B004NOWRIW
Cheers 
We use the Robert Welch one that we got with our knive set, seems pretty good although to be fair, I’ve not got anything else to compare with.
Blunt as fuck bro
