riverie
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Here I have for sale is a brand new never use custom 270mm Shiro Hayate Kensaki Yanagi with serial number #4. A regular hayate is already hard to find, shiro hayate is much harder, and to find the one with kensaki tip is even rarer!!!
Years ago while I was still working as a chef in NY, I was looking for this specific knife as my Holy Grail. Unfortunately Mr.Doi just stopped producing Shiro Hayate due to his advance age, therefore he only can produce regular hayate line. The white#1 according to Mr.Doi can take a keener edge, hold it for a longer period of time because it's a harder steel, but the draw back is harder for him to make one. I was searching everywhere, and I ended up contacted Suisin company in Japan, begging them to help me out.
To my surprised a month later I got the answer back and they said they found one shiro hayate blade that finished and left by accident by Mr. Keijiro Doi in his workshop . The blade serial number is #4, the length is 27cm, kensaki tip yanagiba. They told me shiro hayate is long time gone, and this is the last shiro hayate blade by Mr.Doi that accidentally misplaced by him. Without thinking twice I closed the deal, they did the finishing and polishing on the blade up to mirror finished, securely packed, and sent it to a very lucky new owner in New York.
Just like any other Hayate it comes with box presentation, certificate paper, wooden saya, etc...
I gave it a full custom job with the handle consist of 2 toned amboyna burl with blue metallic resin, musk ox horn ferrule, silver with blue liner....Custom amboyna burl saya with musk ox horn pin...... and a matching chopstick using the remaining block from the wood.
This is your chance to own one of a kind Shiro Hayate knife that you won't see anywhere. I never used the knife so mirror finish still there, factory bevel and edge still there also. What you see in the picture is what you get, including the original saya.
$1550 shipped to CONUS with insurance, PayPal.
Feel free to reach me out if you any further question. Thank you for looking and happy new year to all of you !!!
Years ago while I was still working as a chef in NY, I was looking for this specific knife as my Holy Grail. Unfortunately Mr.Doi just stopped producing Shiro Hayate due to his advance age, therefore he only can produce regular hayate line. The white#1 according to Mr.Doi can take a keener edge, hold it for a longer period of time because it's a harder steel, but the draw back is harder for him to make one. I was searching everywhere, and I ended up contacted Suisin company in Japan, begging them to help me out.
To my surprised a month later I got the answer back and they said they found one shiro hayate blade that finished and left by accident by Mr. Keijiro Doi in his workshop . The blade serial number is #4, the length is 27cm, kensaki tip yanagiba. They told me shiro hayate is long time gone, and this is the last shiro hayate blade by Mr.Doi that accidentally misplaced by him. Without thinking twice I closed the deal, they did the finishing and polishing on the blade up to mirror finished, securely packed, and sent it to a very lucky new owner in New York.
Just like any other Hayate it comes with box presentation, certificate paper, wooden saya, etc...
I gave it a full custom job with the handle consist of 2 toned amboyna burl with blue metallic resin, musk ox horn ferrule, silver with blue liner....Custom amboyna burl saya with musk ox horn pin...... and a matching chopstick using the remaining block from the wood.
This is your chance to own one of a kind Shiro Hayate knife that you won't see anywhere. I never used the knife so mirror finish still there, factory bevel and edge still there also. What you see in the picture is what you get, including the original saya.
$1550 shipped to CONUS with insurance, PayPal.
Feel free to reach me out if you any further question. Thank you for looking and happy new year to all of you !!!