SOLD 175mm Tosa single bevel deba

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$75 shipped

175mm edge
55mm tall
332g
9.5mm spine at handle
6.5mm spine halfway
5.3mm spine at shinogi at tip

Appears to have a slight back bevel so I haven't sharpened it yet. . . Did strop it and feels like a softer deba white steel with a ton of bite, characteristic of tosa blades. Havent sharpened, will need to depending on if the buyer is ok with microbevel or wants the uradashi hammering, or just height reduction to move past the microbevel. Has the hamon looking thing on the ura below the sandblast. The sandblast on the ura side doesn't appear to necessarily be the real lamination line. Geometry on the blade road is thinner than normal for deba, the tip is a bit more convex and thicker toward the edge. At heel, the true shinogi is lower than the sandblast kasumi. Plastic ferrule. Straightened it, slight non contact on ura edge, mid blade, due to microbevel most likely. It's a bit visible in the ura pictures with the light.

Edit:
Removed the microbevel and sharpened. It is the softer tougher side of deba for sure, not quite nata level "softness" but even then, being nata soft isn't a bad thing because I don't see edge rolls on those often either at deba edge angles. The steel feels extremely bitey into wood, more than almost any other knife I've used. Idk. I'd have to see how my files skate on it too.

 

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Now it's a single bevel, ura microbevel removed

 

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Refinished

Process pics, works well on this because it's relatively softer steel. . . Carbide hammer on the steel itself. Vertical lines are scratches from dragging the carbide chisel on the surface, to gauge distance from edge.