RockyBasel
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My Kasumis- 240 and 270 were flawless. Not a scratch, dent, or grind issue.
I agree with you but, it's a great cutter and holds a fantastic edge. I used it once and lost the very tip chopping onions so I need to fix that and then I'll put it up for sale or give it to one of the family. I have a 180mm Watanabe Pro Nakiri that's much more suitable for chopping. The KU Santoku is nothing like my Shig Gyuto.The Shig KU santoku I had was so thick it was ridiculous.
I agree with you but, it's a great cutter and holds a fantastic edge. I used it once and lost the very tip chopping onions so I need to fix that and then I'll put it up for sale or give it to one of the family. I have a 180mm Watanabe Pro Nakiri that's much more suitable for chopping. The KU Santoku is nothing like my Shig Gyuto.
Maybe as in?Maybe
They started today. When I posted this before it had gone from 100€ to 400€ and since then in a few hours to 1000€.Thats pretty aggressive.... considering its 7 days, it wont stay at 1k
Thats pretty aggressive.... considering its 7 days, it wont stay at 1k
People are dumb, they always try to rally themselves up and prices get laughable. Really wouldn't surprise me if this goes way beyond 1500€. I don't mind auctions if they are for a good cause but else...
Welp, it's their money but overall I don't like this **** for the market.
Auctioning...what a way to capitalise on the market unless its for a good cause.Interesting marketing model for a retailer
Unfortunately we are complicit by giving it oxygen. I would never have known about the auction had it not been mentioned here.Auctioning...what a way to capitalise on the market unless its for a good cause.
They are free to do what they want but imo I think its a bad practice. Where do the profits go if it sells more than retail price?
Part of me likes that the retailer makes the bucks on this instead of flippers.
Hoping this isn’t a trend... ugh my dreams of owning one of these someday seems harder and harder to realize.
it kinda makes me mad that it’s NOT a Kitaeji. Is anyone else bothered that a kasumi is up for auction?
Is Kitaeji that much different than say a kuro? To justify the price difference? Sorry I am not that familiar with shigs...
It's just that they are extremely rare and have become unicorns to some extent. Shigs are beautiful, exquisitely made knives, which has certainly contributed to making them collectibles. The Kitaejis are the (entirely subjectively) most beautiful, most rare and most desirable as collectibles. Many people at this point buy Shigs and stick them in a drawer or on a wall. If you had bought 50 5 years ago, you'd be able to easily double or triple your money on them today.
That said, like most things where a huge amount of the value is scarcity-driven, it's hard to make the argument that it's objectively worth 1500 or 2 grand or whatever for a workhorse gyuto that does... what a gyuto does.
I just received a kurouchi Shig nakiri, and I really like it. The fit and finish are, as expected, phenomenal. I used it for prep, discovered that it had a wide (4mm), shallow rough spot near the tip on the blade and also discovered that the OOB edge is as worthless as most OOB edges, so to the stones it went - like literally every knife on my mag strip except for, oddly, my Yu Kurosakis, which have flawless edges and refuse to get dull.
OK, end digression, the Shig is an even better knife now, and I intend to use it well. I'm also not at all unhappy that this is a 350 euro knife and not a 1000 euro knife. It's not objectively superior to my much cheaper AS Moritaka nakiri. It is definitely a whole different level of fit and finish: they might as well not have been made by the same species, but both make short work of piles of veggies, and the Mori arguably does it better. I said it. Flame shield engaged.
Thanks, I understand all that. Although I am new to knives, I have been collecting other stuff. Essentially, above a certain point, performance starts becoming besides the point and aesthetics, emotions, collectability, scarcity etc comes into play. Totally agree with your points.
I guess what I was trying to ask is how is a keitaeji different from Kuro (besides black finish)? Why do people see it as better, or more expensive? is it just more scarce? Same steel? In more cynical terms, what is the marketing behind it lol.
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