What About Kiritsuke

[ThEoRy]

The kiritsuke tipped gyuto looks cool and functions well too. I find the flat edge and pointed tip to be more "fine dice" friendly than a lot of standard gyutos. The K-tipyuto isn't very rock-chop friendly, it just all depends on your style/technique
I think we all need to adopt some new kind of name for the Kiritsuke tip gyuto, to alleviate the confusion of calling it a Kiritsuke. They are only similar in the shape of the tip.
I suggest:
Kiritsukyuto
Kiritipi-yuto
Gyutokitsuke

That's........ even more complicated. Sword tip Gyuto.

[JBroida]

for those that want to be dorky and japanese, that would translate to kengata gyuto or kensaki gyuto

[knyfeknerd]

That's........ even more complicated. Sword tip Gyuto.

Nope, not specific enough.
What kind of sword?
A Rapier-tip gyuto?
A Claymore-tip gyuto?
A Panzerstecher-tip gyuto?
A Bastard tip?
A Khopesh-tip?
A Spartan-tip?
A Hopite-tip?
Last but not least.............
.....the Samurai Tip!!!!!?????!??!?!?????

[ThEoRy]

.....the Samurai Tip!!!!!?????!??!?!?????

That's the one.

[ThEoRy]

kengata gyuto or kensaki gyuto

That. Let's call them that.

[JBroida]

makes sense to me (and sorry for derailing the thread... its a personal pet peeve)

[mkriggen]

makes sense to me (and sorry for derailing the thread... its a personal pet peeve)

LOL...I'm with you on this. I try to make sure that I use kiritsuke/gyuto, not just kiritsuke because they are completely different beasts. The times I don't make the distinction are generally when I feel the context makes it clear. Does that make sense? Anyway, even if it's not a true kiritsuke (i.e. single bevel sword tip) the kiritsuke style gyuto can be a great knife and is probably far more useful to most people then a true kiritsuke. Again, have to ask, does that make sense? It's late, I've had some wine, may be talking out of my a$$.

Be well,
Mikey

[mikemac]

the latest love affair with the new black (and hopefully last with this style....), the spawn of western marketing meets Japanese traditional knives. It really is a cool looking blade, but it's also the santuko of blades over 210mm.
As a gyuto replacement, I would find the relatively low blade height, pointy tip and ultra flat edge profile to be a disadvantage to my knife technique or demands

[Mike9]

Kensaki Gyuto sounds good to me - and we're not adding an extra word and a hyphen. Just because it's a long knife doesn't mean it needs a long name.

[knyfeknerd]

I like my name ideas better. I'm going to start using all of them depending on my mood at the time.