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$65 conus shipped
480g nata
204g saya
198mm edge
174mm handle length
44mm tall at heel
54mm tall at tip
5mm thick at handle
7mm thick at tip
Single bevel
Yoneo blacksmith in Akita
Sharpens easily and iron likes to gush black, so it's on the softer side of iron
Steel is slightly softer than deba hardness
Does catch into hair quite well, and sharpens easily and not rubbery. Strops and refines. Harder and finer grained than masahiro or kanehide semistainless. Definitely on the fine feeling side, and how it accepts polish and edges. Wavy lamination line and delam so definitely forged welded by the blacksmith.
Saya is cracked. It looks and smells like pine. There was a hole in the edge profile and overgrind on the ura so I had to perform uradashi to get the uraoshi to contact there, you can see hammer marks left from that, near the delam. There's delam at that one spot. Tang has light rust, but the open tang design lets the tang dry out and reduce heavy rusting. Nothing smells musty, surprisingly. Just smells like wood and steel. Handle pins and ferrule are tight. Balance point is halfway between kanji and handle ferrule. Spine has a lot of hammer marks. I removed most of the mushrooming on the front and back that prevented proper sharpening.
I removed chips, and thinned and evened the wide bevel. It does work pretty well for chopping wood to shape it. . . . Not splitting, a thinner double bevel is better for that . The single bevel version is better for shaping the left side of the wood to be flat and smooth.
480g nata
204g saya
198mm edge
174mm handle length
44mm tall at heel
54mm tall at tip
5mm thick at handle
7mm thick at tip
Single bevel
Yoneo blacksmith in Akita
Sharpens easily and iron likes to gush black, so it's on the softer side of iron
Steel is slightly softer than deba hardness
Does catch into hair quite well, and sharpens easily and not rubbery. Strops and refines. Harder and finer grained than masahiro or kanehide semistainless. Definitely on the fine feeling side, and how it accepts polish and edges. Wavy lamination line and delam so definitely forged welded by the blacksmith.
Saya is cracked. It looks and smells like pine. There was a hole in the edge profile and overgrind on the ura so I had to perform uradashi to get the uraoshi to contact there, you can see hammer marks left from that, near the delam. There's delam at that one spot. Tang has light rust, but the open tang design lets the tang dry out and reduce heavy rusting. Nothing smells musty, surprisingly. Just smells like wood and steel. Handle pins and ferrule are tight. Balance point is halfway between kanji and handle ferrule. Spine has a lot of hammer marks. I removed most of the mushrooming on the front and back that prevented proper sharpening.
I removed chips, and thinned and evened the wide bevel. It does work pretty well for chopping wood to shape it. . . . Not splitting, a thinner double bevel is better for that . The single bevel version is better for shaping the left side of the wood to be flat and smooth.
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