Simplest way to maintain carbon gyuto?

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Hi
I bought myself a carbon (White #1) gyuto for Christmas. This is my first decent knife and I need some advice on keeping it decent. It’s a home knife that I’d use on veg and meat (hardly ever fish).

When needed, I plan to sharpening on a 1000 grit stone and then finish it to 3-4K or maybe 6 if needed for what I want to try. I’d like it to be at the upper end of functionally sharp but I’m not planning to shave with it and I’d like it to keep an edge for a good amount of time.

I’ve read that I could use a stropping motion on a good 6k stone to maintain an edge.

If I finish sharpening on a 3k stone can I strop on this same stone or do I need a finer stone if I want to strop?

Or is there a different method I should use to maintain an edge? The idea of simply pulling out a stone for a quick strop seems appealing but as I said I really don’t know anything about keeping a nice blade nice.

All I have now is a combo Diamond plate that I won’t use on this knife. Buying another combo stone would be great, a couple is fine, 3 if needed.

Thanks for the help.
 
I can easily shave with an edge from a 320 stone if I take care. 1000 grit should be no problem to whittle hair.

There is no rocket science involved with a quality carbon steel. You should find that steel at the hardness they are running it responds well to minimal efforts.
 
Minimal effort is exactly what I’m shooting for.

I just watched the burfection guy strop both on leather and on a 3k splash and go stone to demo how to maintain a knife.

He said both work well. If there are no advantages to leather - for what I want to do - then it seems like a good 3k splash and go would work for me. Any recommendations?

if I end up with a 3k soaking stone do I need to soak it to do maintenance work on my edge?
 
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you need to plan on at least a short soak if you get a soaking stone...

The chosera 800 and 400 are top shelf splash and go. I have really eyed the naniwa Chosera 3k. I just hesitated on it because some have crazing issues with the higher grit chosera. if your set on a 3 k splash and go that might be an excellent choice.

I really like my 5k Rika (but you have to soak) and 8k kitayama.

I think just for knives though I could probably do everything you mentioned and I need with my 800 chosera and 8k kitayama. They are splash and go and the feedback is great.

start with the 8k kitayama for honing a new knife and if you damage your knife your gonna need a 5-800 maybe lower grit if you really chip it
 
I looked at the naniwa stones but they were more than I wanted to spend. I ended up ordering a cerax 1000/3000 combo stone. I know I need to soak it to sharpen but I’m hoping to get away with just splashing it for some stropping.
Thanks for all the suggestions
 
I like my cerax 1k a lot. Great soaker!

probably could do most everything that you need on a carbon knife
 
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