Raquin 26c3 wrought clad KT gyuto
Length heel to tip: 230mm
Height at heel: 52cm
Weight: 217g
Thickness at heel: 5.4mm
Length heel to tip: 230mm
Height at heel: 52cm
Weight: 217g
Thickness at heel: 5.4mm
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Nice bread knife!!
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More like a mini-gyuto. Satin finish on XC10 cladding over 125sc. 195 x 45mm
luther
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The creator can describe it best: Insta Link
Reason for purchase: boning doesn't work very well with a gyuto
Keith Sinclair
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Ikazuchi 240mm. While teaching would recom. Knives all 240 as their Mercer school kit was a 210. This was most expensive 200.00. A lot for a culinary student. Back then could get MM Nashiji Tanaka 240 gensan steel D ho handle with horn ferrel 120.00. Later went to VG10 & plastic ferrel.
Several students bought the Ikazuchi. Also sold my pass around to a student. One told me it was his most used knife at work.
When he got them back in stock I ordered one always liked this blade. Comes with saya still 200.00. I drilled hole with very sharp bit, guitar pin abalone insert. Cut & trim it to friction fit. Treat handle & says with tung oil, shellac 50/50 mix. Now just need to sharpen & start using it.
Several students bought the Ikazuchi. Also sold my pass around to a student. One told me it was his most used knife at work.
When he got them back in stock I ordered one always liked this blade. Comes with saya still 200.00. I drilled hole with very sharp bit, guitar pin abalone insert. Cut & trim it to friction fit. Treat handle & says with tung oil, shellac 50/50 mix. Now just need to sharpen & start using it.
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On its way to me from Japan via Strata:
Nice mazaki
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This boy is coming home to me. First knife from Will, and first Magnacut in the kitchen, very excited. I have been wanting to try his work out for awhile, his hand satin and wood work look to be some of the best in the game. Also a sucker for rosewood, however I was close to grabbing that apex ultra gyuto instead. That red amboyna is to die for, but alas I have an apex ultra gyuto I love, and I have been meaning to try magnacut chef boi.
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64 is good, very good in fact, a nice sweetspot in the kitchen for sure
wouldn't buy below 63. I think you got your numbers mixed up. 62.5 is suboptimal. Any other questions? I posted coming prepared.
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I missed both drop, congrats.
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Appreciate it. I did think for a second if I wanted apex ultra or magnacut, but I do have my isasmedjan wrought iron apex MCX which I love, so was easier to justify going for the magna.
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What do you think of it in use?The little beautiful bluejay has landed:
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Custom Yoshikazu Tanaka forged sujihiki in Blue #1 from Sakai Kikumori. 285mm edge length.
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Love it. Not that it matters much but out of curiosity do you know the sharpener?
Are you magic? How did you do it?
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It’s gorgeous, neutrally balanced, crazy sharp, and the symmetrical B-grind works very well. Oh, and in case you didn’t know, Dan‘s level of F&F is incredible! Like seriously incredible!!!
Wanna sell me the Isasmedjan?
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Do I want to? No...but at the current rate of buying knives for me it might happen sooner rather than later. You'll be the first to know if it's on the chopping block.
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That looks like some Ono grinds comfort food
not sure if i replied already but it took a few months and I finally got it into my hands this weekend from a local friend. Here is a pic i took of it in addition to others my friend did on his own IG.
Happened to be visiting Vancouver this week and it was garage sale today, grabbed this tsunehisa 240mm sakimaru as a fun small slicer as well as some other smaller non knife things, also went over to ai and om but that’ll be a post for the sharpening thread!
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Thanks. I don't know the sharpener but Evan might. I think you can request a sharpener if you have a particular Sakai sharpener in mind that Kikumori works with, but I just asked for a particular finish (convex so-bokashi) and they chose the sharpener.
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Look, I bought a new knife and it isn't a gyuto. I am now a part of rectangle gang.
BillHanna
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Welcome. I look forward to your Triangle Blowout Sale. (You may keep A suji)
MCX Swedish Honyaki Doppelwumms!
MCX Spare 230 from Whit3Nitro and MCS Isasmedjan 240 from matchplay18. Both transactions went perfect, thanks guys!
As you can see, the Spare has already seen some action. It's not a heavy knife at 190g, and 230mm is my favorite gyuto length. It's a bit more robust behind the edge, though, which can definitely be felt in denser ingredients. Thinking about thinning it somewhat behind the edge. But generally this has become one of my favorite knives very soon. It is very much of what I had been looking for in the last 20ish knive acquisitions. Very close to the perfect KKF for me.
So the Isa has some big shoes to fill. It is still new, as you can see, but I'm looking forward to putting it through it's paces. Gorgeous distal taper which I found difficult to capturein the photo. It feels more nimble and has significantly more flex than the Spare, weighing 10g more. It has a nice semi-silky polish which I will ruin very soon
Spare's hamon line has disappeared in the patina, but it's very much there:
MCX Spare 230 from Whit3Nitro and MCS Isasmedjan 240 from matchplay18. Both transactions went perfect, thanks guys!
As you can see, the Spare has already seen some action. It's not a heavy knife at 190g, and 230mm is my favorite gyuto length. It's a bit more robust behind the edge, though, which can definitely be felt in denser ingredients. Thinking about thinning it somewhat behind the edge. But generally this has become one of my favorite knives very soon. It is very much of what I had been looking for in the last 20ish knive acquisitions. Very close to the perfect KKF for me.
So the Isa has some big shoes to fill. It is still new, as you can see, but I'm looking forward to putting it through it's paces. Gorgeous distal taper which I found difficult to capturein the photo. It feels more nimble and has significantly more flex than the Spare, weighing 10g more. It has a nice semi-silky polish which I will ruin very soon
Spare's hamon line has disappeared in the patina, but it's very much there:
You know you are lucky when the mailman arrives the day you are working from home and your wife is at the office
The Misono carbon family is growing... 125 and 150 petties. Although 180 is my go-to size for petties, it's nice having smaller ones that I'm not afraid to abuse.
The Misono carbon family is growing... 125 and 150 petties. Although 180 is my go-to size for petties, it's nice having smaller ones that I'm not afraid to abuse.
Also, two JKI gems from different eras... Kochi from the last batch and old school Gengetsu.
