My daily use chef knives are made by Shun and they're part of the reason why I bought that sharpener. Japanese knives use a very hard steel that will take a nice razor's edge, but if you aren't extremely careful with them the edge can be kinda.... chippy? I had to use my coarsest sharpening stone on a couple of my Shun knives to grind out little chips in the edge.
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