Another sharpening of several Japanese Masahiro knives.

The manufacturer is well-known, including outside of Japan.
Due to the good quality and variety of the proposed models.
Our set of affordable, and absolutely justifying the money spent.
The main nuance in the products of many companies from the Land of the Rising Sun is the asymmetric sharpening.
This is a tribute to tradition, with a bit of dubious value in our time, and for the western user.
This is done to increase the resistance of the edge and some improvement in cutability, but entails difficulties with subsequent restoration.
 

The Seki Kanetsugu company, very competently treated this feature, and on European knives, there is a symmetrical edge 50/50.
Masahiro, and present days sharpen their products with a slight slope of the cutting edge.
Reproducing such geometry is more difficult, but possible, which was done.
Steel MBS26 showed good resistance to grindstones.
The owner of the kit calls for the service infrequently, because it is used skillfully and rules independently.

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