WTS TF Denka 300mm yanagiba

[shinyunggyun]

Bought it from sharp knife shop for $856.
Asking for $600 shipped. These go for $1400+ on TF direct.

Sharpened once on cerax 700 and morihei 6000 and used it for one day at the sushi bar.

Selling it because it’s a very light yanagiba. I have a preference for heavier ones. It’s a solid yanagi. Gets very sharp and holds the edge for a long time.

 

[shinyunggyun]

Drop $550 shipped

 

[Se1ryu]

Used it for 1 day?

 

[shinyunggyun]

One full day at the sushi restaurant. After having sharpened it out of the box.

 

[shinyunggyun]

Bump $500 shipped

 

[shinyunggyun]

Drop $400 shipped

 

[mengwong]

I’ll take it at $400, please. To be shipped within CA. Will DM.

 

[shinyunggyun]

sold

 

[Pie]

I’ll take it at $400, please. To be shipped within CA. Will DM.

Brave. Awesome.

 

[KnightKnightForever]

@mengwong

How did this work out? I see he's banned now...

 

[Pie]

@mengwong

How did this work out? I see he's banned now...

Oh damn. What happened? As far as I can tell he didn’t seem to be a bad guy.

I also wanna know how much hair was pulled out and how much sleep was lost @mengwong

 

[kpham12]

I believed they were hacked at some point and the account started posting WTS threads with knives they had already sold at even lower prices asking for PayPal F&F.

 

[Pie]

Oh booooo. Dude raised some real blunt questions from an interesting perspective, I liked seeing foundational concepts being openly discussed.

 

[mengwong]

Arrived pretty much as advertised. Ignore the label, I need to reprint it. The edge is 300mm. Cosmetics could be better but nothing I can’t fix. Haven’t actually used the knife yet, I just went through a half dozen slabs of salmon sashimi but used a humbler yanagiba. Will clean this one up and feed it some fish in a few weeks.

 

[Pauldoduy]

It seems to have a huge scratch right here. It's not easy to fix.

 

[kantdooku]

It seems to have a huge scratch right here. It's not easy to fix.

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Yeah. Ura looks pretty rough. And shinogi is uneven

 

[mengwong]

 

[Corradobrit1]

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Gotta love a trier

 

[mengwong]

Spent an hour on the kireha with Arashiyama 1000 then Ohira Tomae. Got a nice haze on the core steel but I have no idea what I’m doing with the cladding. I made the shinogi worse.

The ura got some tough love with 400 grit sandpaper sponge. Edge microbeveled with SG16K. The "patina" stains from wet use are still there.

The steel smells like salmon sashimi… or does salmon sashimi smell like aogami super?

Anyway, I’m going to need a better camera and lighting.