jimbob
Senior Member
Maxsims dangerous emails....
On one side, it looks like an ordinary Shig KU santoku; on the other side, it is not.
what in the hell?
NO WAY........ Ura and everything! :bigeek:
That looks like a blend of a santoku and an usuba ...
Did you do that?? Funny that I was thinking of starting a thread on how much modification people do (not knife makers) or have the guts to do. I got so tired of fingerprints messing up a mirror polish on the table of a kiritsuke with engraved kanji that I took the whole surface of the table to the stones and did my own mirror polish - losing the texture of the kanji. It looks nice but I think you have to be in a bad mood to do that to a $650 knife. ha...
Not unusual but this tight pattern, I haven't seen so much on gyutos.
Just your basic kitaeji shig. I should try to count the layers. I have seen a lot of kitaeji shigs and I do think this is somewhat unusual. This is a 180mm baby gyuto and is also very thin. I have had a couple of "matched pairs" and sometimes the kitaeji is thinner, sometimes thicker. The 180 kasumi partner in this case is a tad thicker. But I had a pair of 270s where the kasumi was thinner.
:zombiegrave:
I'm surprised Smurfmacaw hasn't posted here yet lol.
In an attempt to overcome my "hoarding tendencies", I sold my shig display set :shocked3:
I relapsed shortly afterwards and got another Kitaeji gyuto :knife:
Yes I did and I'm not ashamed of it! It needed to be used.
:thumbsup: knives are meant to be used.
Dangerous hobby/passion... seriously:...
Dunno why it lumped Asteger's comment in there...Fixed that. D.
Dangerous hobby/passion... seriously:
I can spot a large number of gaps in that lineup. You have a long way to go, many Shigs to capture from the wild :whistling:
Seriously, you have a bad case of Shigefitis. Sorry, I can't help you
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