–Dank and drizzly day.
–Took Grace to UC Davis Health in Folsom for our flu and COVID shots.
–Stopped at Home Depot to get some ABS tubing for ferric chloride etching. Tried it on the Kato petty. Initially looked fairly promising; later it looked splotchy. I removed all traces with the belt grinder. One problem: this technique works best on knives with stainless cladding. I don’t know if I have any more of those. It’s possible I could turn my Konosukes into Tetsujin Metal Flows, but I really think it would take mega polishing skills that are beyond me. All the Konos have these faint parallel lines from the factory that (I believe) would be super hard to polish out. Even worse: The newer Kono BY knives (among others) are too big at the heel to fit in the 2″ ABS pipe I bought for etching. Crap.
–Looking at getting a Leica D-Lux 8 100 Years. Thought they were newish; they’ve been out since 2024. You can’t win for losing, though: eBay used are $2,500 plus tax; Malaysian new are $2,500 plus tariffs. Crap.