It’s not always older loved knives which need re-grinding.

These superbly crafted knives had made quite a journey from Japan via America. The last leg of that journey from America to the UK took 3 months. Although the knives are of outstanding quality, well balanced and razor sharp, the packaging was unfortunately not to the same standards! One of the blades had been ‘Dinked’ in transit even though they had plastic protectors. The last 1mm of the tip was bent into a very small, but very noticeable hook. Softer Steel blades are much easier to maintain, but they do suffer badly with tip damage if they are treated inappropriately.

Returning them under warranty via the USA would have been costly and would probably have meant that the replacements would have taken over 3 months to arrive. So I reground the tip following the original blade profile but removing enough Steel to eradicate the tip hock.

The result was a sinisterly sharp blade with no visible signs of alteration. Pretty cool I think?