mizu honyaki

Hello All, Here I have a heavier sujihiki for your pleasure. Very stiff and thick spined, but still barely nail-flexing. I got a curious double hamon effect on this one, and took it to a higher grit finish than usual. Interestingly, even though this is a water quenched blade that hamon has more...

This is the fourth collaboration between me and Matt. This knife didn't make it here for the initial sale because it found a family before I posted on the BST. But I decided to create this page anyway to keep track and for transparency for the evolution of the knife for future owners, if it ever...

Hello All, It's been a while since I posted my last semi-custom honyaki gyuto. Truth be told W2 is a bit of a different animal than 26c3, and it's somewhat more prone to cracking so I haven't really used it since that last one...until now. I'm still trying to get things dialed in, but things...

Hello All, This project has been a long time coming. Water quenching honyaki has an extremely steep learning curve and I have broken many many blanks over the last 3 years trying to succeed, but I finally managed it! The ashi seem to have a different character to them with a water quench vs an...