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Watanabe is back open. Ordered a Pro 180 Nakiri and it arrived in Fl in 4 days! Super responsive by email, had a knife available and shipped immediately.

I have an old Blazen (0o-05?) and a Kagero western. The Blazen is a much lighter knife with a slimmer handle. They are both beautifully finished. I much prefer the weight of the Blazen. The steels seem similar to me and both are easy to sharpen. The grind on the Kagero has better food release...

I have a relative with a KonoHD, and don’t laugh, one of those Global Minosharp pull through sharpeners. He actually keeps it pretty darn sharp with it. I touch it up when I visit. He would never take the time to sharpen correctly, but he will use that device for regular maintenance. I also...

Aluminum, pffft, granite counter, omfg... :)

That is the exact knife I immediately pictured when reading. Stunning knife

I wasn’t paying attention to heel hight, the user has paws.... so I was looking to get closer to 50 If possible

Yes

Too slow for the Ohishi Ginsanko it was gone. It was a heck of a price

Thanks, as an aside, I didn’t know you could run R2 that hard

Narrowing down to what I like so far Kono HD Gesshin Kagero Ohisho Ginsan (I know I said no damascus but it is in third)

I think the Takamura R2 stops at 210 :(

Syousin Suminagashi/Shinko Kurokumo thanks m1K3, I had looked at a Syousin but had not heard of Shinko. They do have a western line, I will check on that. I think the Misono is nice, but f there Swedish steel is basically aebl, that is pretty soft. I do like the looks of the Kono HD

I will double check on wa handle, but he told me in the past he didn’t like them. Also differentiating between Damascus and San Mai/clad

Looking for a knife for a gift and one for myself. Budget for the gift 250-300 we have similar knife handling techniques and both of use the knife softer in a slicing motion. No hard chopping LOCATION US Florida KNIFE TYPE Chef, Gyoto right handed Western handles What length of knife...

Thank you!

Registered a bit ago just posting as I start looking for a new knife.