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$110 shipped
300mm edge
48mm tall
14mm wide ferrule, 4mm tang at ferrule
5.7mm spine where blade meets at handle to 3.1mm halfway to 1.1mm 1cm from tip
316 g
Awesome steel, awesome knife, great grind, super comfy handle, ****** tang install. Hard heat treat, definitely hard even for a j knife, but amazing sharpening feel with a little more wear resistance than a low alloy steel. Does take a jnat edge, pretty decently, better than some blue or whites I've had. If I was forced to say a rhc . . . I'd guess 62. Not as hard as Takahashi Hamono steel, not super close, but sorta close to it, a bit softer. Feels chalky in a good way, buttery but more coarse . . .so pleasantly chalky.
Need to refinish and thin a bit. Forge mark near tip on left side, like a deeper nashiji type thing 1/3 mm deep. I straightened and removed a recurve at heel. Good even grind -- thin convex near edge and slight hollow in blade face. Comes with red case, not sure if leather or fake leather; I opened some stitches 1/3 toward the tip to get some cloth out that got stuck.
300mm edge
48mm tall
14mm wide ferrule, 4mm tang at ferrule
5.7mm spine where blade meets at handle to 3.1mm halfway to 1.1mm 1cm from tip
316 g
Awesome steel, awesome knife, great grind, super comfy handle, ****** tang install. Hard heat treat, definitely hard even for a j knife, but amazing sharpening feel with a little more wear resistance than a low alloy steel. Does take a jnat edge, pretty decently, better than some blue or whites I've had. If I was forced to say a rhc . . . I'd guess 62. Not as hard as Takahashi Hamono steel, not super close, but sorta close to it, a bit softer. Feels chalky in a good way, buttery but more coarse . . .so pleasantly chalky.
Need to refinish and thin a bit. Forge mark near tip on left side, like a deeper nashiji type thing 1/3 mm deep. I straightened and removed a recurve at heel. Good even grind -- thin convex near edge and slight hollow in blade face. Comes with red case, not sure if leather or fake leather; I opened some stitches 1/3 toward the tip to get some cloth out that got stuck.
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