Big Almighty Knife! Tojiro FG-3000

[Bert2368]

Use a cheese knife that has handles on both sides

I have never needed to divide a whole "wheel" of cheese. But this tool would probably do it quite well-

 

[Bert2368]

The major drawback of this knife had been finding anyplace safe to STORE it. So- Big almighty edge protector, 14" long.

Amazon, $8.24 delivered, arrived 2nd day after ordering.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K5KP9K5/ref=pe_2640190_232586610_TE_dp_i1





Lined with some kind of fibery flocking, supposed to not scratch the blade.

Also got a pair of these cleaver sized protectors, $14. I'm trying to "safe" the blades which don't fit in my knife block, tired of wrapping in towels or home made sleeves.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07DZ5RX97/ref=yo_ii_img?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[Bert2368]

I have started making 16" Dia. pizzas, rather than the 12" Dia. I had usually done for forever.

The Tojiro almighty big knife now has a new job, between bisecting melons and winter squash + the occasional zombie population control jobs.

 

[Keith Sinclair]

Hey Bert show this to your wife. It's my Jesus Hernandez Tameshigiri . W2 steel takes a nice Hamon. It is very sharp. Have cut through rolled
up beach mats with it. He forged the blade, I requested a leather wrap handle. He made the saya too. Bamboo theme. He is a Medical Doctor. Made some beautiful katana. Now he doesn't make them anymore his site doesn't exist last time I looked.

 

[Qapla']

Hey Bert show this to your wife. It's my Jesus Hernandez Tameshigiri . W2 steel takes a nice Hamon. It is very sharp. Have cut through rolled
up beach mats with it. He forged the blade, I requested a leather wrap handle. He made the saya too. Bamboo theme. He is a Medical Doctor. Made some beautiful katana. Now he doesn't make them anymore his site doesn't exist last time I looked.

What made you choose that design over a local Hawaiian-style sword?

 

[Keith Sinclair]

At the time was active member of Hawaii Sword Society. Most local Japanese interested in swords of their culture. Had some members expert knowledge of Japanese swords going back over 1000 years. Members have some valuable swords. That's how got interested saw a sword show at Japanese temple in Honolulu.

My short sword from the 1490's

During late 1400's strong Hamon we're popular
There are many folds in the steel. If you expand the tip picture you can make out the many folds.

Years ago a forum member here turned me on to Jesus Hernandez. He is a Medical Doctor who is really into Japanese culture. A expert in the art of slicing tatami mat.

He made me that beautiful Tameshigiri Katana

 

[Bert2368]

"His talk was like a stream which runs
With rapid change from rocks to roses;
It slipp’d from politics to puns;
It pass’d from Mahomet to Moses;
Beginning with the laws which keep
The planets in their radiant courses,
And ending with some precept deep
For dressing eels or shoeing horses."

The Vicar-
Winthrop Mackworth Praed

 

[Taz575]

I used to have a Tojiro DP 330mm gyuto for watermelon...lol! I have some nihonto, but wouldn't dare to use them on watermelon! I had one from 1394 that I sold; guy who bought it sent it for a polish and USPS lost it I have some others from late 1600-early 1700s, too. Kashu Iehira, Shigekuni (yondai), Ishido Einjo Masatoshi, etc. Japanese Nihonto and Japanese knives are an expensive road to go down!

 

[Qapla']

I have started making 16" Dia. pizzas, rather than the 12" Dia. I had usually done for forever.

The Tojiro almighty big knife now has a new job, between bisecting melons and winter squash + the occasional zombie population control jobs.

So how does it perform on winter squash compared to how your gyutos perform?

 

[Michi]

So how does it perform on winter squash compared to how your gyutos perform?

No better, really. But more fun

 

[Keith Sinclair]

I used to have a Tojiro DP 330mm gyuto for watermelon...lol! I have some nihonto, but wouldn't dare to use them on watermelon! I had one from 1394 that I sold; guy who bought it sent it for a polish and USPS lost it I have some others from late 1600-early 1700s, too. Kashu Iehira, Shigekuni (yondai), Ishido Einjo Masatoshi, etc. Japanese Nihonto and Japanese knives are an expensive road to go down!

What is that blade in the picture?

 

[Taz575]

That is an unknown ebay $400 special. It has a large blister on the blade (machi was moved forward slightly to have the new habaki cover most of the blister, as well as new shirasaya made) and was tarnished pretty good when I got it, so I had Josiah Boomershine do a polish to it. I am a hada/hataraki junkie (love seeing activity and structure of the steels) so it's a non traditional polish, but I love the way it shows the hada and different steel colors. I saw the hada in one of the ebay pics and it was nice to see that vibrant of a hada, so I grabbed it.