u/Prestigious_Gas13

Image 1 — [Selling] [Canada willing to ship worldwide] Munetoshi Migaki Gyuto 210mm Shirogami #2 w/ spalted maple handle $300CAD
Image 2 — [Selling] [Canada willing to ship worldwide] Munetoshi Migaki Gyuto 210mm Shirogami #2 w/ spalted maple handle $300CAD
Image 3 — [Selling] [Canada willing to ship worldwide] Munetoshi Migaki Gyuto 210mm Shirogami #2 w/ spalted maple handle $300CAD

[Selling] [Canada willing to ship worldwide] Munetoshi Migaki Gyuto 210mm Shirogami #2 w/ spalted maple handle $300CAD

* Munetoshi Gyuto 210mm Migaki Shirogami Knifewear w/ custom spalted maple & horn handle, bought from Knifewear for $373. Used quite bit, good patina. Can be removed. Sharpened once on shapton 1000#. Asking $300CAD.

Shipping not included.

I accept PayPal G&S or if you're located in Canada, EMT.

Everything is shipped by Canada Post, and if you're located in the US I will declare it as a gift with a value below $90USD to avoid tarrifs.

u/Prestigious_Gas13 — 1 day ago

[Selling] [Canada willing to ship worldwide] Lightly used (cheap) Wa Handles

Hi everyone. I'm selling some handles I took off knives I rehandled. All are lightly used. The quince wood has some damage near the ferrule top and bottom, as seen in the first couple of close up photos.

All prices are CAD and don't include shipping. If you are located in the US, I will ship by Canada Post to USPS as a gift so you don't incur tarrifs.

I accept PayPal G&S or if you're located in Canada, EMT.

From left to right:

* Quince wood with blonde buffalo horn ferrule off a Shiro Kamo W2 Damascus 210mm Gyuto $50CAD

* Black oak mono off a Nigara STRIX 240mm Gyuto $40CAD

* Rosewood and black buffalo horn ferrule off a Wakui 180mm Santoku $60CAD

* Unknown wood and wood ferrule off a Matsubara 150mm petty $45CAD

u/Prestigious_Gas13 — 1 day ago

Technical question with respect to putting an offer on a house--no mortgage

We are considering making an offer on a house, but ours is not listed yet. My wife and I own our house outright. It should be listed within a month and we expect it to sell very quickly--it's in a prime area with low inventory and is in extremely good condition. Houses rarely last longer than 2-4 weeks and often get full ask or above. We also intend to price it aggressively. We intend to make up the balance of the offer with cash. Obviously most of the offer relies upon selling our house and getting our equity out of it.

Can we make an unconditional offer on this house by showing we have 100% equity and proving we have the balance in cash? Worried we will have to make an offer conditional on the sale of ours, which means possibly losing out on the house due to a less attractive offer than an unconditional offer.

Thanks.

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u/Prestigious_Gas13 — 3 days ago

More Pants!

More Pants today. All from Boogwa

Today we have the following:

* Shiro Kamo W2 Damascus Gyuto 210mm with ebony and red marble stone ferrule

* Matsubara B2 Nashiji Petty 150mm with marble ebony and marble horn ferrule

* Wakui W2 & Stainless Clad Migaki Santoku 180mm with Karelian Birch and horn ferrule and end cap

I want to thank everyone who replied to my previous post. Your kind words in these difficult times for me mean more than I could ever explain.

Waiting on the next batch from Jack, should be special.

Take care everyone.

u/Prestigious_Gas13 — 5 days ago

[Selling] [Canada] Lightly used (cheap) Wa Handles

Hi everyone. I'm selling some handles I took off knives I rehandled. All are lightly used. The quince wood has some damage near the ferrule top and bottom, as seen in the first couple of close up photos.

All prices are USD and don't include shipping. I will ensure everything is shipped and arrives without tarrifs.

From left to right:

* Quince wood with blonde buffalo horn ferrule off a Shiro Kamo W2 Damascus 210mm Gyuto $40

* Black oak mono off a Nigara STRIX 240mm Gyuto $40

* Rosewood and black buffalo horn ferrule off a Wakui 180mm Santoku $50

* Unknown wood and wood ferrule off a Matsubara 150mm petty $30

u/Prestigious_Gas13 — 5 days ago

Time to get a little real here.

tl;dr at bottom

I'll soon be 37 years old, and I've struggled pretty much whole life with untreated depression and anxiety. On the whole, I'm better than I was in my late teens and early 20s, where I was in a nearly inescapable hole. Around 2013, I started to climb out--I found a job I was passionate about, met my future wife, and started becoming financially stable. But it hit me hard a few years ago again.

Finally being in a financial position to do so, I started therapy right around the time of my wedding in late 2022. Mostly I think it helped me have a healthy outlet to talk about my life and problems to someone that wasn't my wife or a friend. Mood improved, angry outbursts subsided, anxiety diminished, darkness faded. This led into early 2024 when we found out my wife was pregnant. I continued the improvement and the therapy. Eventually with the newborn coming in early 2025, the time commitment became too large, and I had improved enough to the point that my therapist and I agreed it would be fine to take a break.

Through the later part of 2025 and into 2026, things started to get bad again, but still manageable. We found out my wife is pregnant again in January. With this came crushing anxiety leading to the deepest depression I've had in almost 20 years. The mounting pressure of dealing with a newborn and a young toddler, knowing that our car situation was woefully inadequate for our growing family, and our house was plainly unsuitable for a family of 4, I've begun to crack under the weight of it all.

In the past few weeks things have come to a head. My moods are unpredictable and beyond unacceptable for a father of a toddler and husband of a pregnant wife. My anger is often uncontrollable and I shut down completely. This has to change. Despite my extremely reluctance to do so given the time commitment, I've begun the process to restart therapy. I also have an appointment with my family doctor to ask about medication--a bridge I have never crossed.

I am trying to take more time for myself when family obligations permit it. Part of that is spending more time with my hobbies in order to self reflect and have something external to focus on, that's not my family or work commitments. My wife is fully on board with this.

tl;dr I am depressed and anxious, I'm spending more time with my knives (and other hobbies)

Today was a rough day for me so I decided that I would sacrifice a couple hours of sleep to tidy up my work space in the garage to have an area to work on my knives. I present to you my new (first ever in fact!) pants on my Matsubara Blue2 Kiri Cleaver. They are a stabilized blue burl by Jack at Boogwa with a marble horn ferrule.

I also included the before and after of my work bench.

Thanks for reading.

u/Prestigious_Gas13 — 8 days ago

Heyo.

I'm currently rocking all my knives in a drawer and while I quite like the set up, I would eventually like to have them up on the wall. My wife has made it a hard no to have them on the wall or counter on any sort of magnet for fear of them falling or being knocked by kids or cats.

I had the thought of having a glass display case with magnets instead. Some quick googling shows many that are for pocket knives, but my question is really does anyone know of any purpose built wall mounted magnetic display cases?

Thanks!

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u/Prestigious_Gas13 — 10 days ago
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Hey friends.

After my last post at 2:00 am, we had some more issues with getting our 13-14 month old to sleep. It improved somewhat and we were down to maybe one shortish middle of the night wake-up, but it would still be up to an hour of rocking to get him to sleep.

The breaking point was when we went to our cottage for Easter and it got worse all over again, with him waking up all night, quickly followed by me missing three days of work in a two week period due to his sleep issues.

Though neither my wife nor I really wanted to, we felt we had no choice, and we went with the Ferber method. It was heart breaking, for me in particular, since he cries out for dada during the crying periods.

We keep bedtime routine very consistent since he was a newborn: wash face and hands, diaper change, change of clothes, sleep sack, bottle (whole milk now) while mommy sings lullaby, daddy burps, mommy sings second lullaby, daddy burps again, brushing teeth, good night to mommy, rock to sleep.

Only change is every other day we do bath.

We also learned after about a week he steadily needs a five hour wake window in the morning, two hour (+/- 20min) nap, then six hour wake window before bed. He has been somewhat inconsistent with sleeping two hours and about half the time my wife (who does the naps since I'm at work) has to take him and let him sleep on her in bed or couch.

A brief summary of how it went for us (by memory so some timing might be off).

* Night 1: 48min to fall asleep. No night wake-up, woke at 5:30am.

* Night 2: 45min to fall asleep. No wake-up, woke at 5:30am.

* Night 3: 35min to fall asleep. 1 wake-up, got him back to sleep within 20min using the same day timing for Ferber. Woke up at 7am.

* Night 4: 12min to fall asleep. First night with no check-in required. No night wake up, woke at 6:30am.

* Night 5: 7min to fall asleep. No wake-up, woke up at 6:30am.

* Night 6: 6min to fall asleep. Big night wake-up, took almost an hour to go back to sleep. Woke up at am. This is the last night he woke up.

* Night 7: 2min to fall asleep.

* Night 8: 1hr15min to fall asleep. This was due to a mistimed bed time.

From here on out, we clued into what I mentioned above about the bed timing. We just had to push him to that 6hr wake window.

He would still cry when we put him down for sleep each night the whole way through this process.

We are at night 11 now, and as of tonight he laid down after two minutes of rocking and not a peep from him.

Last night my MIL babysat while we went out, and a similar story for her, which we had been worried about since it wasn't me (I'm the only one who did bed time since we started).

My wife also started using the method for nap times after about 5 days, and had similar results. Only one time about 40min of crying due to a mistimed nap.

In summary: it worked for us, and I never thought it would. I thought he would cry until the sun rose. I know it's been less than two weeks, and it won't be perfect but it's a dramatic improvement over the hell we were living before.

He is even putting himself back to sleep when he wakes up early in the morning and during naps at this point.

Hope this helps some of you out there.

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u/Prestigious_Gas13 — 16 days ago