mazaki knives

[RevJoe]

To me it looks like these don't match the kanjis uptop.

 

[deltaplex]

I hadn’t gotten a notification he had replied… thanks for the heads up!

 

[bahamaroot]

 

[Corradobrit1]

To me it looks like these don't match the kanjis uptop.

Chinese knockoffs????

 

[RevJoe]

Nop

Chinese knockoffs????

Nope but I am not good at reading the symbols, they look close. 2 of these I bought several years ago here on BST. I was just curious if they were prelamin or hand made. The whole prelam thing with him is fairly new to my knowledge but the talk of it made it me wonder whether he did this earlier then thought. I believe all of mine are pre 2019. one of those is from the BBQ quench phase or whatever that was called.

 

[SwampDonkey]

I gather some of them have gotten quite thin. I have a 2019 JNS version with what is to me a perfect grind, authoritative but quite thin behind the edge, broadly similar to a Konosuke MM. Then I have a more recent KnS version that's quite a bit chunkier and has required quite a bit of thinning to get close to a similar place.

That's the kind I was interested in; thick spine skinny edge. Seems the KU ones that Carbon had in later 2022 were of that variety so I was expecting K&S to be similar. C'est la vie.

The ebony handle was an excellent fit on it though, balanced the big girl out really nicely.