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Can Anyone Tell Me If This Is A Shun Knife


Porthos

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Yes it is.

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I just don't want to look back and think "I could have eaten that."

Unsupervised, rebellious, radical agrarian experimenter, minimalist penny-pincher, and adventurous cook. Crotchety, cantankerous, terse curmudgeon, non-conformist, and contrarian who questions everything!

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The shape strikes my eye as oddly old-fashioned, like something out of my great-grandmother's kitchen drawer. What would be its intended use?

“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.” - William Cowper, The Task, Book Three

 

"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

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~Martin :)

I just don't want to look back and think "I could have eaten that."

Unsupervised, rebellious, radical agrarian experimenter, minimalist penny-pincher, and adventurous cook. Crotchety, cantankerous, terse curmudgeon, non-conformist, and contrarian who questions everything!

The best thing about a vegetable garden is all the meat you can hunt and trap out of it!

 

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All righty, then. My first take was that it was a bit short for a carving knife, but I suppose that'd be carving as differentiated from slicing...you'd want something a bit nimbler for working around joints and such. 

“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.” - William Cowper, The Task, Book Three

 

"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

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10 hours ago, Tri2Cook said:


More like: $170 knife for $4! Yay!

 

9 hours ago, TicTac said:

Aren't ya just a ray of sunshine on a dark stormy day!

 

Great deal OP; still curious as to the source...

 

 

Mea culpa.  It is a heck of a buy.

 

I was off my meds...:$

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10 hours ago, TicTac said:

Great deal OP; still curious as to the source...

 

 

Sorry, @TicTac, I amnaged to miss the question the first time. I found it at Megathrift in Rialto, CA. It's the same store I picked up a Wusthof 6" Classic Chef's Knife for $2.00 last November.  That knife went to my wife at her request.

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  • 3 weeks later...

So today I began working on the edge. There are so many nicks in the edge it will likely take me 1 1/2- 2 hours, using my 220 stone - the coarsest stone I have, to remove enough metal to get to a clean edge. The appearance of the nicks are as if  someone took this knife and kept striking its edge against the edge of another knife, like a poorly-fought duel.

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14 hours ago, Porthos said:

So today I began working on the edge. There are so many nicks in the edge it will likely take me 1 1/2- 2 hours, using my 220 stone - the coarsest stone I have, to remove enough metal to get to a clean edge. The appearance of the nicks are as if  someone took this knife and kept striking its edge against the edge of another knife, like a poorly-fought duel.

 

Still a good investment, but it makes me want to harm the person who was responsible for abusing this instrument so. 

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> ^ . . ^ <

 

 

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3 hours ago, Thanks for the Crepes said:

 

Still a good investment, but it makes me want to harm the person who was responsible for abusing this instrument so. 


Really?

It's kinda like wrestling a gorilla... you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is tired.

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