JAPANESE NATURAL FINISHING STONES · MUNICH
Four tools.
One drawing.
Three of them make the drawing. The fourth lets you start it again.
The steel is your paper.
Finger stones. The palette.
from 46€
The palette. Kasumi, grade by grade. Six single sets or kits in the order the blade wants them.
Bench stones. The first stroke.
from 250€
The first stroke. Sets the core and the line — everything after adapts to it. One-of-a-kind pieces.
40€
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The eraser. The forgiving one. Rust, patina and a tired surface gone in a minute, and your kasumi back.
KREAM — Haze. The eraser.
KREAM — Detail. The signature.
The signature. Lifts the activity and finest details in the metal.
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50€
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Once you know your number, you can order again in five years without trying it on.
Like a
shoe size.
01–04 bite → refined toothiness · most kitchen work
05–12 the finest edges — ura, fine tools, razors
WHERE THE CERTAINTY COMES FROM
How the light reads a finish.
04 · Awasedo, the fake Maruka.
A kasumi finish in four numbers.
How I measure →
THE SHORT WAY
Most of what I know that is worth writing down — a guide built out of the questions people send me. Ask Benjamin →
How do you get a successful kasumi?
YOUR PERSONAL POLISHER
Professional blade polisher, Munich. Founder of the Kasumi Cup. Fifteen years in, kasumi still asks more patience of me than anything — and what I have chased, all along, is control: knowing exactly how I reached a finish, and being able to reach it again.
Benjamin Rétif,
or Nutmeg.
Six polishers. Six blades.
One finish.
Six identical blades, forged for the occasion by Milan Gravier. Two months of work, judged anonymously on the finish alone — nothing about who made it, only what it looks like.
Every finished knife is given away in a free draw, live on 20 December. You don’t have to polish to take part.
- Daniel Cauble
- Lee Chew
- Silvain Dixneuf
- Simon Krichbaum
- Edward Thompson
- Ryan Wu
Judged by Milan Gravier, Mark Gonzales and Benjamin Rétif.
