I have the blue 2 but sold it. I loved the knife at first, and maybe I was premature in selling it. It’s finish is gorgeous, etc
but the reason I did was maybe bit odd on my part
In a flight of fancy, I started making a dish that required cutting of several large hard onions I got from Hiebers (German amazing produce store).
while cutting several mega-size “vegetable onions”, I thought hey, why not cut each onion with a different knife?
So I pulled out a Denka, Yanick, and a couple of others - Takada no Hamono, Toyama. Total of maybe 4-5 different knives, and Kisuke was one of them
the onions were wedge prone onions
while the Manaka performed fairly well on the vertical cuts, the horizontal slices into the onion, well, it would just get stuck. Yanick was incredible on both vertical and lateral,
As was Denka.
maybe the competition to Kisuke was unfair, and also, my knife whisperer on this forum had also mentioned that Kisuke blue 1 may be more preferable
So I sold it, thinking I will get the blue 1 next time
I got the blue 2 because the Cleancut price for blue 2 was miuch lower - 280 Euro vs. typically 350 Euro for the blue 1
so I think you will be fine getting this knife.
lastly, a retailer put some doubts in my head. They said they had Kisuke San do a demonstration of the knife in their shop, but some thing was wrong with the knife, and they elected not to carry it
those are the facts with my reasoning to sell it
But I was enamored completely of the knife - but then the above happened