Inspiration

Fleeing the terrifying "whomp whomp" of the dubstep circus that is my job, I chanced upon this when I got home:  Jojo Mayer in Frankfurt.  Yes! I think this solo is musical and Jojo gets a lot out of his relatively modest kit.  His cymbal selection is unique, and allows him to create trashy, ambient, washy sounds that are complimented by his articulate sticking and practiced dynamic range.

So now I want to practice, but it's 11:55 PM on Sunday evening and it'd be nice to get some sleep too.  I'll be at it early tomorrow though, at least until my Atoma 220 diamond plate shows up and I try to get some of these knives into shape...  I've been reluctant to put imperfect edges on the knives with stones that aren't flat.  None of my stones are flat.  I've been putting a fairly decent edge on my gyuto with them, but I haven't tried to touch up my yanagi-ba since it was professionally straightened and sharpened.  It needs to be run on the 8k at least, but possibly on the 1200.  I'll figure it out once my stones are flat.  I'm going to use the diamond on a cheap knife for practice too.

Yes!