Mr. Itou

[mano]

 

[Burl Source]

Beautiful Knives!

 

[NO ChoP!]

Are these from the KF BST?

 

[kalaeb]

Nice!

 

[sachem allison]

I think I just shat myself.

 

[TB_London]

They were an excellent deal, congrats

 

[Cutty Sharp]

Itou's are nice, if a bit overboard. Still, nice! Is it your own set? It looks as though there's more than one of the same there. If so, someone must like them a lot

 

[cclin]

I think those from KF's "Kitchen Knives/tools sale". super good deal from $80~$160! nice score!:doublethumbsup:

 

[knyfeknerd]

Great score Craig, you deserve it!

 

[NO ChoP!]

Yah, R2 is friggin' awesome steel. Sweet set....

 

[Cutty Sharp]

Which other blades have you come across in R2?

 

[Johnny.B.Good]

Which other blades have you come across in R2?

Tanaka.

 

[ThEoRy]

Wow good deal. Grats!

 

[pumbaa]

Nice knives i want an itou, and theory dont you have a itou pairing? crazy blue or green handle or something?

 

[Cutty Sharp]

Tanaka.

Yes, that's the one! But maybe there are others too?

 

[ThEoRy]

Nice knives i want an itou, and theory dont you have a itou pairing? crazy blue or green handle or something?

Yeah, I got it from Salty. It has an azurite malachite handle. Pretty cool little guy. Bugger to sharpen though. Not because of the steel, I love sharpening R2. It's the small size and shape that burns me sometimes. The edge doesn't go all the way to the handle, it sort of starts a quarter inch up. But it gets real thick from the handle then suddenly drops in and gets thin at the edge. I sometimes bang this drop part into the stone and it can take you out of the rhythm.

 

[SpikeC]

When I was waiting for an Itou to come back in stock at JCK I got impatient and bought a Tanaka R2 ironwood instead. I now prefer the shapes of the Tanaka!

 

[mano]

Most of the Itou's came with rough edges so I took a short slicer to 1K and 4K glass stones. No one could accuse me of being more than an adequate sharpener, but within minutes it took a terrific edge that just about fell through grapes. If this is typical of R2... incredible!

 

[ThEoRy]

Easy to sharpen, holds it for.. ev.. er..
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