300mm sakai yusuke sujihiki

im putting my sakai suji white steel up for sale. its about 8 weeks old and is in very nice condition. Ive only used it maybe once or twice a week to portion steaks. it has a lot of patina that i left on because it looks real nice in person. i paid around $252 for it with shipping from blue way. Yusukes reputation for great fit in finish is definitely true with this knife. ill let it go for $190 shipping included. thanks

by the way, you increase the size of the photo if you click on it. i wasnt sure if that was common knowledge or not.

Tempting. Is the back half a little bowed/oversharpened, or is it just the pics and my rapidly degenerating eyesight?

its patina. i sharpened it 50/50. in all honesty though there is some scratches there behind the edge towards the middle due to sloppy sharpening. usually i would just remove it with a some auto sand paper but the patina "cool" factor was worth keeping.

oh yeah, to answer your question there is definitely no over sharpening anywhere on this knife. i only sharpened this knife 2 times and touched it up a few times with an 8k. its crazy sharp at the moment if that makes a difference to anybody.

Yeah I figured it was light/patina/bad eyes. Wanna give me the spine to heel height? And 300mm heel to tip, or machi to tip?

no problem. ill get measurements and post this afternoon. i wanna say its around 285mm long and 40mm tall.

Only curious - I think you're not the first to have a new knife that you're trying to sell. Why are you selling after only 8 weeks?

no good reason, really. its a great knife, if it doesnt sell i dont really mind keeping it. like i said earlier, im only using it once a week for work. theres just not alot stuff going on at my job to really hold on to it. i also happen to sell off knives i like in order to try new stuff.

labor of love said:

i also happen to sell off knives i like in order to try new stuff.

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I do the same thing. I don't buy knives, I lease them!

ok heel to tip cutting edge is 292mm and its 43mm tall. little bigger than i thought.

ill drop the price to $175 shipping included.

That's a nice price on a nice blade...my 300 suji slot is filled, though. Someone needs to scoop this up!

I'm making Labor wait for it. Lol. Paypal is just so damn confusing!

Vertigo said:

I'm making Labor wait for it. Lol. Paypal is just so damn confusing!

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You're a magnificent b@$+@rd vertigo. We need to kill beers together sometime.

Vertigo said:

I do the same thing. I don't buy knives, I lease them!

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That's same model as achat-rachat in French ("buy-rebuy"); it's often the cheapest way to get nicer things, like having a new​ car for a few weeks in Europe. It's cheaper to lease the car for four weeks, brand new from the factory, then to rent it (used) from a car rental agency.

this bad boy still available?

K-Fed said:

this bad boy still available?

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yes it is.

I'll take it. Need something to take the place of my yanagiba that I don't bring to work much anymore.

Coool.

One of these days I want to visit the workshops in Sakai that make up Yusuke, Takayuki, Suisin and other knives. The Yusukes may be a FOTM now (like Ittosai Kotetsu or Aritsugu once were), but they just seem so well made and finished.

Congrats!

sold! thanks for looking!

Nice score,whoever it was!

Thanks for jumping on this grenade K-Fed! It was starting to become way too tempting. Whew!

My pleasure =)

tell us how you like it!

berko said:

tell us how you like it!

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I love it. Sharpens up very easily, as white steel does, profile and grind is great, seems to hold it's edge considerably better than the white steel konosukes that I once had ( most likely heat treat related if I had to guess ). I'll probably get the 270mm gyuto sooner than later. Not that I really need it, I've got 5 gyutos and a vintage sab chefs in my work kit as it is but I like the suji and would like to have the gyuto as well. Would definitely recommend it if you're in the market for a 300mm white steel suji.