SOLD Halcyon Forge wrought gyuto semi integral

[Prajwal]

This is a semi custom blade from Joe where I requested it to be ground tall with slight convexity.

Core: 1.2519
Clad: wrought iron
Handle: western style spalted maple
Edge length: 225mm
Height at heel: 51mm
Spine thickness after the semi integral bolster: 3.7mm
Spine Thickness at heel: 2.9mm
Weight: 224gms

Hasn’t been sharpened and used only a couple times. This is a very high performing blade. Happy to share videos of the test cuts I did. In trying my best not to have drawer queens and this one is slightly shorter for me to have in my rotation

Paid $875 for this. Listing it for $850 shipped CONUS. I will cover the first $15 for international shipping

Please ask me for any more pics/videos as needed!

 

[Matt Jacobs]

stunner

 

[fortheloveofmoar]

@Homechef dunno if you were hard set on western handle but maybe this might float your boat

 

[Homechef]

@fortheloveofmoar Haha, I’ve only looked at this post about 30 times already

 

[fortheloveofmoar]

I don’t need it and I’m not even looking for another HF and I’ve looked at it at least 10 times

 

[nickrut]

Dropping fire today. Good lord.

 

[nhb22]

Man…do you have stories about this knife that I can share with my wife? Did Joe harvest the wood from somewhere cool?

 

[steveo]

@Prajwal curious what's in your daily rotation, considering what you just dropped on BST today. Please tell.

 

[Prajwal]

Man…do you have stories about this knife that I can share with my wife? Did Joe harvest the wood from somewhere cool?

Not with the wood but the wrought had some cool story that I’ve conveniently forgotten. I should ask Joe again lol

 

[nhb22]

Not with the wood but the wrought had some cool story that I’ve conveniently forgotten. I should ask Joe again lol

yea I have already used that excuse twice with the 4 HFs that I have...

 

[Prajwal]

@Prajwal curious what's in your daily rotation, considering what you just dropped on BST today. Please tell.​

Hey man @steveo !
Massive apologies for not getting back to you on this.

My preference falls more towards lasers and light mid-weights. I’m also a major major major hardent knives and hopwoods fan, having quite a few of those in my collection. so I usually always have a handful of those on my knife holder. Same is the case for my WHs. I know which knife works for me so I generally don’t swap that one out. Anyhow, here is my current rotation:

Workhorse

• Halcyon forge kurouchi custom: 1.2519 core wrought iron clad, tall ground semi integral stone finished bevels with a shortened bog oak handle

Light Midweights

• Hopwood custom: 1.2519 core, wrought iron 75Ni8 shichimai clad, swappable amboyna burl and ironwood burl handle
• Xerxes integral: apex ultra core, forget what the cladding is made of, yew handle
• Heldqvist honyaki: c130 I want to say? Charred oak and deer antler handle with a burly spacer. This one is specifically very nice. He made two of them and a dear friend has the other, so I was able to use both side by side and this one stays in my rotation most times.
• Simon Krichbaum custom: apex ultra core, wrought iron clad, ground tall and stone finished bevels. Yew handle to go along with it

Laser

• Hardent custom integral: 1.2442 core, 145 layers Damascus. He made this for me in a French Aaba tier style profile with a drop down profile, she oak lace handle
• Hardent custom external tang: sidestack full Damascus with the handle made out of the same billet and inlayed with a Turkish walnut block
• Hopwood stainless stock removal: Jonathan had a larger billet as a spare so he offered to make this one taller than the rest for me, and we decided to go with a curly walnut handle

Petty

• Hopwood Sanmai petty: 125 sc core wrought iron clad and a bog oak handle
• Currently also giving the Ludwig x JLA a run for its money: white 1 core stainless clad. I got it to try and polish stainless steel blades, but I cannot risk to do anything to the finish, it’s perfectly finished by JLA and I’ll just ruin it

But yes that’s my current rotation I try to change every few weeks, but some hardents and hopwoods are almost always on my holder. Heldqvist might be the next permanent on it

Here I’ll share a pic and a video