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[tgfencer]

What are the spines/overall weight on these Hitohira Tanakas like for folks who have them? Kono Fuji clones or more substantial?

 

[lobby]

210 Western shig kasumi. Next to it's well used 240 wa bro

 

[Jon-cal]

What are the spines/overall weight on these Hitohira Tanakas like for folks who have them? Kono Fuji clones or more substantial?

I think the comparisons are to the old Konosuke Fujis. I have one of the new Fujis, and the Hitohira is not very close but I can’t really comment on the old ones.

Tsubaya Tanaka 240 B1 (2018, satine) - 205g, ~3.5mm spine at handle
Hitohira Tanaka Kyuzo 240 B1 (2018, ebony) - 196g, ~2.5mm spine @handle
Kono Fuji 240 B2 (2018, ebony) - 187g, ~3mm spine @handle

The profiles are pretty similar for all 3. The grind is very similar if not identical between the Tsubaya and Hitohira with a very pronounced shinogi line. The new Fuji’s grind is much softer with no real physical shinogi line, almost like a very gentle convex and nothing at all like the Hitohira/Tsubaya.

The Tsubaya/Hitohira knives may be dead ringers for the old wide bevel Fujis but honestly I have no idea. I’ve seen that claimed but I’ve never handled one personally.

 

[Jon-cal]

Those Tanaka knives are just baller looking

Completely agree. They look stunning

 

[daddy yo yo]

Last three additions...

Takamura must go, too light, too thin for me. Toyama 210 and Watanabe 195 are what I like.

 

[milkbaby]

Mizuno honyaki and Shig kitaeji are killer!

 

[captaincaed]

Doom told me politely to put this here. He also politely let me know I was a limp- wristed home cook for not cutting peppers. I think I like his style...

 

[daddy yo yo]

Watanabe 195mm SC125:

 

[RDalman]

Watanabe 195mm SC125:

Nice. San mai?

 

[daddy yo yo]

Nice. San mai?

Yep. From Watanabe's page: "blade 195mm, width 48mm, thickness 4.4 - 1.2mm, 150g weight, double bevel, material iron Sanmai 125SC, HRC67.5"

 

[RDalman]

Yep. From Watanabe's page: "blade 195mm, width 48mm, thickness 4.4 - 1.2mm, 150g weight, double bevel, material iron Sanmai 125SC, HRC67.5"

Haha noice, that's crazy hard.

 

[daddy yo yo]

Haha noice, that's crazy hard.

Agree. I like the look and feel of this little cutie. Hardness, we will see...

 

[Chef Doom]

I recently got a knew knife but I refuse to show you ungrateful fools anything.

 

[childermass]

Got this little fella for some time now:

As some of you know I was not sure about the profile and wanted to try something else too, but in the end I didn‘t.
I‘m using this one every day to peel all kinds of fruit for my daughter (she has some problems to chew skin as she does not have all her teeth yet and always spits it out [emoji4]), and I have to say it is a very solid option for everyone looking for a paring knife.

 

[ecchef]

Teaser.

 

[DevinT]

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Teaser.

Looks like it might be a kippington to me.

Hoss

 

[panda]

kip and his weird arse grind. deba with lyposuction

 

[Pamarill0]

Hiromoto AS 240

 

[geoff_nocon]

Its finally here 240 ashi honyaki. First order of buisness is to remove that ugly rainbow laquer




freedom poem famous

 

[Godslayer]

I recently got a knew knife but I refuse to show you ungrateful fools anything.

Pls

 

[SliceNDice]

My pride and joy:

 

[Jville]

kip and his weird arse grind. deba with lyposuction

... The performance is no joke. BTW where did all the Emojis go? I couldn't get a good laughing one.

 

[Jville]

I recently got a knew knife but I refuse to show you ungrateful fools anything.

Quit playing hard to get.

 

[valgard]

 

[Godslayer]

Its finally here 240 ashi honyaki. First order of buisness is to remove that ugly rainbow laquer




freedom poem famous

World class

 

[geoff_nocon]

Heres a picture of the ashi after removing the lacquer cant really see much in the first post

 

[brooksie967]

View attachment 44678 View attachment 44679 View attachment 44680 Heres a picture of the ashi after removing the lacquer cant really see much in the first post

Now go cut with it!!!

 

[geoff_nocon]

Now go cut with it!!!

Already did some test cuts on carrots. I was actually pleasantly surprised that its not a laser. I was expecting that it was just a honyaki version of their normal mono line. The spine is thicker which i like

 

[CB1968]

View attachment 44678 View attachment 44679 View attachment 44680 Heres a picture of the ashi after removing the lacquer cant really see much in the first post

Great profile

 

[cheflarge]

DUDE!!!