Got me excited for mine now! The banding on yours looks beautiful
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Got me excited for mine now! The banding on yours looks beautiful
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A pair of tuna bleeding knives, sans handle
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Me too! Tracking shows mine is…somewhere in the US…
Just arrived a 240 mm Gyuto in White #1 Steel with Stainless Cladding and Mulberry Handle and Saya from Isamitsu Knives.
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Looks absolutely gorgeous!Just arrived a 240 mm Gyuto in White #1 Steel with Stainless Cladding and Mulberry Handle and Saya from Isamitsu Knives.
Are the pins flush? Looks almost antique… Love it!!
I really appreciate how restrained the single piece saya - handle combo isJust arrived a 240 mm Gyuto in White #1 Steel with Stainless Cladding and Mulberry Handle and Saya from Isamitsu Knives.
Andrei does great work and his knives are a bargain. Probably the one I reach for first.
Two more for the Battle of the Giants
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I see. I suppose there really is no other way to do that.
Unshu Yukimitsu custom gyuto with ebony handle. I asked for 225-230x50 so Kusunoki san came up with this! 230x52mm at the heel, gets around 45mm tall towards the front of the blade. Nice and thin, balance point right at the pinch grip.
Michael at Knife Japan was absolutely wonderful to work with, I can't recommend him enough.
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Michael at Knife Japan was absolutely wonderful to work with, I can't recommend him enough.
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Cool! Michael should hopefully have mine in a few more days.
I think the 200 size will actually be perfect as a tweener and make a really useful grab knife.
wow, grind looks great. please let us know how it performs, I'm curious to try the makers from KnifeJapan, Unshu Yukimitsu specially
I'm 2/2 so far, the Okahide butcher I got was also a homerun. Plus Michael is so good to communicate with he can steer you in any direction if you're stuck.
I've only done carrots and celery so far and it feels similar to my Kochi V2 gyuto in the super thin bte department, wants to bite in to the cutting board a bit. I forgot to say the f&f is well done here. The spine and choil are all rounded, the KU is so smooth I kept checking to see if it was lacquered. Clean handle install
Two new babies:
240 Kawachi
250x57, 235g, 4.78 at handle
240 Custom Maz Blue 1 w/ Custom Kanji
245x55, 197g, 5 at handle
240 Kawachi
250x57, 235g, 4.78 at handle
240 Custom Maz Blue 1 w/ Custom Kanji
245x55, 197g, 5 at handle
Impressively packaged!
Thought that I really wouldn’t get anything this year but sometimes you need to make exceptions, especially if the knives are made by Mr. Nakagawa and sharpened by Morihiro hamono.
So so happy I could get them. The ginsan mini cleaver is an absolute beast, one of the most fun knives to use I’ve ever handled.
Do I need to try Mr. Nakagawa’s white 1 and vg10 to round off the collection?
So so happy I could get them. The ginsan mini cleaver is an absolute beast, one of the most fun knives to use I’ve ever handled.
Do I need to try Mr. Nakagawa’s white 1 and vg10 to round off the collection?
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Who is the maker?
Oops, forgot to say but edited my post. The smith is Mr. Nakagawa, the sharpener is Morihiro Hamono.
Very nice! Where did you get the cleaver?Thought that I really wouldn’t get anything this year but sometimes you need to make exceptions, especially if the knives are made by Mr. Nakagawa and sharpened by Morihiro hamono.
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So so happy I could get them. The ginsan mini cleaver is an absolute beast, one of the most fun knives to use I’ve ever handled.
Do I need to try Mr. Nakagawa’s white 1 and vg10 to round off the collection?
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I got an absolute heater here. I don't name knives or anything, but when I first opened this one up I'm like...this is the dark knight lol. My first from Evan.
135CR3 honyaki with such a crazy hamon and the most insane banding ever.
225x62
Super chonk 287g
4.7mm spine but gets real thin behind the edge
African blackwood and mother of pearl handle
135CR3 honyaki with such a crazy hamon and the most insane banding ever.
225x62
Super chonk 287g
4.7mm spine but gets real thin behind the edge
African blackwood and mother of pearl handle
The makers are the same, but it’s in blue 1 and 240 mm! The grind is superb, but i’ll put on a different handle first. Looking forward to comparing it to the blue 2 gyuto I have from the same two makers.Might as well give us the deets on the gyuto as well. That wide bevel is
Got it from knivesandstones. Surprisingly, their shipping was very cheap so I couldn’t resist.
Help me be less stupid, who is the smith? thanks.
Evan Antzenberger, French smith
