Last of the SwampWedding sale for now. This is sweet blade with gorgeous cladding line and finish. If you like Shigeki Tanaka ginsan, you'll very much like this. Light-midweight/heavy laser category, stiff spine. Great grind for dense squash/carrots/butternut. Blade-forward balance feels confidence inspiring than the weight necessarily says. In mint condition, no scratches on finish and never sharpened, though it it's been lovingly used.
236x50 mm, 177 g. 2 mm spine. Stainless clad VG7 steel.
Not much info on the VG7 out there, I also have the 210 of this knife that I use often as a travel blade. Steel sharpens like ginsan to me, but is a little tougher. Holds up to crappy cutting boards and family missuse well, never had so much as a microchip and holds an edge, washita edge is killer on these. The ferrule isn't quite as in-your-face red as some of the pics make it look, my phone camera wants to oversaturate it, I've tried to include different lighting. Profile looks more curvy than it feels, I'm a push cutter and it is happy to rock or push cut. The forward sweep of the choil pushes the full length of the cutting edge in front of your pinch so it feels like a true 240 rather than smaller.
Paid $225, asking $150 shipped, insured.
236x50 mm, 177 g. 2 mm spine. Stainless clad VG7 steel.
Not much info on the VG7 out there, I also have the 210 of this knife that I use often as a travel blade. Steel sharpens like ginsan to me, but is a little tougher. Holds up to crappy cutting boards and family missuse well, never had so much as a microchip and holds an edge, washita edge is killer on these. The ferrule isn't quite as in-your-face red as some of the pics make it look, my phone camera wants to oversaturate it, I've tried to include different lighting. Profile looks more curvy than it feels, I'm a push cutter and it is happy to rock or push cut. The forward sweep of the choil pushes the full length of the cutting edge in front of your pinch so it feels like a true 240 rather than smaller.
Paid $225, asking $150 shipped, insured.
