knyfeknerd
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Grabbed this one from Marko because I was lucky enough to be stalking KKF one morning. Great price for a Marko, whether it's a prototype or not.
I have been using a Tojiro DP honesuki for the past 10+ years. This is probably my second most-used knife. I cater and Beef tenderloin is the lifeblood of our business. I clean hundreds of these in any given week. I find my honesuki to be the perfect knife for this task.
I got the knife from Marko a couple of weeks ago. The steel is 52100, cocobolo handle and multi-colored horn ferrule. I might add the knife looks beautiful. This is my first knife in 52100 as well.
I apologize for not doing any measurements, weight, etc. but I'm sure Marko has already recorded this data.
The knife feels great in hand. The handle is a little longer than I'm used to, but my previous honesuki was a western handle. Did I mention how pretty the multi-colored horn is on the ferrule?
The blade itself is slightly hollow-ground on the back side, with no discernible ura-at least not the kind I'm used to seeing on my single-bevel J knives. I'm fine with this, as I have turned the edge on my old honesuki into more of a 70/30 edge.
The knife didn't feel adequately sharp OOTB, so I did a 4k, 6k, 8k and some push strokes on the back side with the 8k. This thing is intimidatingly sharp now.
I've gone through about 250 beef tenders with thing so far. This knife is perfect for my needs and has made cleaning tenders a joy-seriously-BRING 'EM ON!!!!
I've done some poultry work too, it carves through chicken beautifully and makes paper-thin slices for paillards.
The edge retention on this is grand. I don't make much board contact, so it remains sharp. I haven't even stropped it yet.
Great steel, excellent HT, good to look at and feels good in my hand.
What more could you ask for???
The only thing this is missing is Marko's maker's mark on it!
Some pics, pre and post patina.
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Thanks Marko
I have been using a Tojiro DP honesuki for the past 10+ years. This is probably my second most-used knife. I cater and Beef tenderloin is the lifeblood of our business. I clean hundreds of these in any given week. I find my honesuki to be the perfect knife for this task.
I got the knife from Marko a couple of weeks ago. The steel is 52100, cocobolo handle and multi-colored horn ferrule. I might add the knife looks beautiful. This is my first knife in 52100 as well.
I apologize for not doing any measurements, weight, etc. but I'm sure Marko has already recorded this data.
The knife feels great in hand. The handle is a little longer than I'm used to, but my previous honesuki was a western handle. Did I mention how pretty the multi-colored horn is on the ferrule?
The blade itself is slightly hollow-ground on the back side, with no discernible ura-at least not the kind I'm used to seeing on my single-bevel J knives. I'm fine with this, as I have turned the edge on my old honesuki into more of a 70/30 edge.
The knife didn't feel adequately sharp OOTB, so I did a 4k, 6k, 8k and some push strokes on the back side with the 8k. This thing is intimidatingly sharp now.
I've gone through about 250 beef tenders with thing so far. This knife is perfect for my needs and has made cleaning tenders a joy-seriously-BRING 'EM ON!!!!
I've done some poultry work too, it carves through chicken beautifully and makes paper-thin slices for paillards.
The edge retention on this is grand. I don't make much board contact, so it remains sharp. I haven't even stropped it yet.
Great steel, excellent HT, good to look at and feels good in my hand.
What more could you ask for???
The only thing this is missing is Marko's maker's mark on it!
Some pics, pre and post patina.
Thanks Marko