SOLD 330mm honyaki takohiki

[refcast]

$280 shipped
Was $300

335mm machi to tip
21mm tall
3.5mm spine at handle
堺 別作


140g

Edge is straight
Feels like white steel, borderline 1 or 2
Microchips near middle of blade

Ura and blade face were evened before I got it
Balde road thinned and edge set
No mark on tang

Surprisingly floppy at tip, half of it is soft steel after all and it's not too thick or tall. Bending the whole knife can let me displace the tip 2-3mm

Steel is definitely quite hard, but slowly abradable

Has a finer grain feel than most other white honyaki I've tried and also more brittle or prone to microchips

Whereas most white steel will kind of bite and feels crispy, this goes straight in immediately, so an extremely fast bite into hair, almost instantaneous. Feels that way in food but too thick behind the edge for produce, more of only meats

Low spots on shinogi still except near tip
Lots of convexing neer heel

 

[refcast]

I did not polish it well, lol. On the wide bevel 400 grit diagonal scratches remain as well as some horizontal ones. And the microchips are there visible on the edge

 

[Tekkz]

This is cool as hell

 

[zizirex]

nice

 

[refcast]

$280