Hello All,
3/7 for this batch, a sujihiki in Wolfram Special. WS is a fairly new steel that falls under the specs of V-Toku 1, and is fairly close to 1.2442. Another way of thinking of it might be as a Blue #2 with the same amount of tungsten as Blue Super. In all honesty this steel was not that much fun to work with, I compared them side by side and it's harder to grind than Apex Ultra. For that reason I don't really see myself using much of it outside of honyaki and san-mai, or much at all except by request. The steel does have great hamon potential, and this blade did in fact auto-hamon on me, so there is a fairly interesting hamon line sitting in this steel, but as I already have a WS honyaki suji in the works I just belt finished this one and stuck to my original plan of making it a budget oriented knife. A more complete review of Wolfram Special can be found on the Patreon page of our very own @Troopah_Knives under the title of "Is Wolfram Special Special?"
3/7 for this batch, a sujihiki in Wolfram Special. WS is a fairly new steel that falls under the specs of V-Toku 1, and is fairly close to 1.2442. Another way of thinking of it might be as a Blue #2 with the same amount of tungsten as Blue Super. In all honesty this steel was not that much fun to work with, I compared them side by side and it's harder to grind than Apex Ultra. For that reason I don't really see myself using much of it outside of honyaki and san-mai, or much at all except by request. The steel does have great hamon potential, and this blade did in fact auto-hamon on me, so there is a fairly interesting hamon line sitting in this steel, but as I already have a WS honyaki suji in the works I just belt finished this one and stuck to my original plan of making it a budget oriented knife. A more complete review of Wolfram Special can be found on the Patreon page of our very own @Troopah_Knives under the title of "Is Wolfram Special Special?"
- Blade: 250mmx42 Wolfram Special (64-65hrc) scotchbrite belt finish
- Neck: 17mmx18mm
- Handle: 145mm long, 22mmx25mm tapering to 19mmx21mm, burned oak, oiled and waxed
- POB: 52mm from the hande
- Spine: 3.02mm at the neck, 2.64mm at 12.2cm, .84mm 1cm from the tip
- Grind: flat to convex, right hand bias
- Weight: 152g
- Relieved choil and spine
- Edge: .28mm@1mm, .37mm@2mm, .61mm@5mm, .95mm@10mm Measured at the midpoint.
