I bought this one from JNS/Maksim a while ago on a whim, when people at a German knife enthusiast board I also visited went from buying more Laser knifes (both OOTB lasers and letting knives like a Carbonext get thinned to laser proportions) to purchases of blades with a more balanced/workhorse style.. Stuff like Fujiwaras, Shigs or esp. Katos. With Katos and Shigs being way beyond what I -as a student- could afford/justify to spend on single knife, I went for a Toyama gyuto instead.
The knife originally came as advertised on the JNS page with a D-shaped ho-wood handle. Shortly after the delivery I realized, that a very pronounced part of grain wasn't just grain, but a crack in the wood itself. I contacted Maksim, he straight away told me to send the knife back to him for rehandling and offered to upgrade the handle to a better looking burned chestnut one. Since I'm very partial to octagonal handles and took a bit of a gamble buying a knife that came with a D-shaped one, I asked him if he could swap the handle shape from D to octagonal... Which he did and he also sharpened the blade again, before sending it back to me. Can't argue with that, that's imho really good customer service...
Problem is, I not only vastly prefer octagonal shaped handles to anything else, I'm also below average size for a male and don't have big hands either. The handle Maksim installed is a way up on the big size for a gyuto handle in terms of volume (esp. width and height at the ferrule).
With me having bought a 240 K&S Ginsan Tanaka from the first batch that was avaliable , the Toyama has turned into a drawer queen and given how uncomfortable the handle size is for me, there is no chance I will use it as is or go through the extra expense to have it rehandled to a smaller/less bulky octagonal handle. Esp. since the Tanaka is more than adequate for my needs and me going get my hands on a 230 Robin Dalman gyuto in the near future... so selling the Toyama would not only free up space in the drawer that holds both my knifes, asian style chinaware and Sushi-tools, it will give me welcomed cash inflow to fund that Dalman gyuto...
Since I wrote a small review for that German knife board, I can provide some specs:
Steel: San-Mai, core of blue steel with iron cladding. Can't say if it #1 or #2, since the description on the JNS page simply says "blue steel"...
HRC: dunno, JNS doesn't provide a HRC value on the product page
Handle: octagonal burned chestnut wood with horn ferrule
Length: 150mm
Width: 24 at the ferrule, widens to 27 at the end of the handle
Height: 27 at the ferrule, widens to 31 at the end the handle
Heel to Tip Length: ~244mm
Blade Height at Heel: 55 mm
Width of Spine at Handle: 3,5mm
Width of Spine Above Heel: 3,1mm
Width of Spine at Middle: 2,42mm
Width of Spine 1cm from the tip: 1,23mm
Width of the blade at heel, measured 20mm above the edge: 1,52mm
Width of the blade at heel, measured 10mm above the edge: 1,05mm
Width of the blade at heel, measured 5mm above the edge: 0,66mm
Width of the blade at heel, measured right behind the bevel: <0,2mm
Weight: 218g with the D-shaped handle, after rehandling the weight went up to 228. The handle alone weights ~50g, so the weight of the actual blade is roughly 180grams.
As mentioned above, the knife have been sharpened by Maksim before sending it back to me. I found out pretty fast that the handle size isn't my thing, so it hasn't been used much on a end grain cutting board before it turned into a drawer queen. Since "not much use" is quite a relative term, let me phrase it that way: It's been only used in a home kitchen, for the prep work of no more than three dinners in a 3 person household and top of that along with other knifes.
So the actual workload the edge has been put up to is somewhere in the range of prepping a single 3-4 person dinner and the blade hasn't been put on the stones or the strop by myself either.
Price: 265 (or 290USD for any potential EU buyer, whose country doesn't use the Euro currency). I don't mind selling to outside of the EU, but I guess the offer isn't tempting for say US or even Norwegian buyers...
Shipping: I will use DHL for shipping and will charge no extra fee for shipping to zone 1 (which is most the EU, except for some places like say the Spanish Canary Island or the UK Channel Islands). If a buyers address isn't part of zone1, I will charge the difference between the zone 1 shipping costs (13.99) and the actual shipping costs.
Pictures are as good as they could be, given that weather isn't very sunny in Germany at the moment and I'm only using a smartphone camera to snap them.
If someone misses a certain angle or detail, feel free to ask for further pictures... for example: if needed, I can snap some comparison pictures with the 240 Tanaka, a 210 Kohetsu AS Gyuto and a 270 Konosuke Kiritsuke-Gyuto...
Same for any questions about the knife itself, but keep in mind that I didn't use the knife long enough to form a solid opinion on it. So for stuff like performance with specific foods, ease of sharpening and edge retention, you're most likely better of asking other KKF members owning a 240 Toyama like limpet or wind88 for example.
As usual: Offers via PM only...
The knife originally came as advertised on the JNS page with a D-shaped ho-wood handle. Shortly after the delivery I realized, that a very pronounced part of grain wasn't just grain, but a crack in the wood itself. I contacted Maksim, he straight away told me to send the knife back to him for rehandling and offered to upgrade the handle to a better looking burned chestnut one. Since I'm very partial to octagonal handles and took a bit of a gamble buying a knife that came with a D-shaped one, I asked him if he could swap the handle shape from D to octagonal... Which he did and he also sharpened the blade again, before sending it back to me. Can't argue with that, that's imho really good customer service...
Problem is, I not only vastly prefer octagonal shaped handles to anything else, I'm also below average size for a male and don't have big hands either. The handle Maksim installed is a way up on the big size for a gyuto handle in terms of volume (esp. width and height at the ferrule).
With me having bought a 240 K&S Ginsan Tanaka from the first batch that was avaliable , the Toyama has turned into a drawer queen and given how uncomfortable the handle size is for me, there is no chance I will use it as is or go through the extra expense to have it rehandled to a smaller/less bulky octagonal handle. Esp. since the Tanaka is more than adequate for my needs and me going get my hands on a 230 Robin Dalman gyuto in the near future... so selling the Toyama would not only free up space in the drawer that holds both my knifes, asian style chinaware and Sushi-tools, it will give me welcomed cash inflow to fund that Dalman gyuto...
Since I wrote a small review for that German knife board, I can provide some specs:
Steel: San-Mai, core of blue steel with iron cladding. Can't say if it #1 or #2, since the description on the JNS page simply says "blue steel"...
HRC: dunno, JNS doesn't provide a HRC value on the product page
Handle: octagonal burned chestnut wood with horn ferrule
Length: 150mm
Width: 24 at the ferrule, widens to 27 at the end of the handle
Height: 27 at the ferrule, widens to 31 at the end the handle
Heel to Tip Length: ~244mm
Blade Height at Heel: 55 mm
Width of Spine at Handle: 3,5mm
Width of Spine Above Heel: 3,1mm
Width of Spine at Middle: 2,42mm
Width of Spine 1cm from the tip: 1,23mm
Width of the blade at heel, measured 20mm above the edge: 1,52mm
Width of the blade at heel, measured 10mm above the edge: 1,05mm
Width of the blade at heel, measured 5mm above the edge: 0,66mm
Width of the blade at heel, measured right behind the bevel: <0,2mm
Weight: 218g with the D-shaped handle, after rehandling the weight went up to 228. The handle alone weights ~50g, so the weight of the actual blade is roughly 180grams.
As mentioned above, the knife have been sharpened by Maksim before sending it back to me. I found out pretty fast that the handle size isn't my thing, so it hasn't been used much on a end grain cutting board before it turned into a drawer queen. Since "not much use" is quite a relative term, let me phrase it that way: It's been only used in a home kitchen, for the prep work of no more than three dinners in a 3 person household and top of that along with other knifes.
So the actual workload the edge has been put up to is somewhere in the range of prepping a single 3-4 person dinner and the blade hasn't been put on the stones or the strop by myself either.
Price: 265 (or 290USD for any potential EU buyer, whose country doesn't use the Euro currency). I don't mind selling to outside of the EU, but I guess the offer isn't tempting for say US or even Norwegian buyers...
Shipping: I will use DHL for shipping and will charge no extra fee for shipping to zone 1 (which is most the EU, except for some places like say the Spanish Canary Island or the UK Channel Islands). If a buyers address isn't part of zone1, I will charge the difference between the zone 1 shipping costs (13.99) and the actual shipping costs.
Pictures are as good as they could be, given that weather isn't very sunny in Germany at the moment and I'm only using a smartphone camera to snap them.
If someone misses a certain angle or detail, feel free to ask for further pictures... for example: if needed, I can snap some comparison pictures with the 240 Tanaka, a 210 Kohetsu AS Gyuto and a 270 Konosuke Kiritsuke-Gyuto...
Same for any questions about the knife itself, but keep in mind that I didn't use the knife long enough to form a solid opinion on it. So for stuff like performance with specific foods, ease of sharpening and edge retention, you're most likely better of asking other KKF members owning a 240 Toyama like limpet or wind88 for example.
As usual: Offers via PM only...
