Sakai Takayuki Stainless Steel Santoku 165mmSpecifications: Blade length: 158mm Overall length: 280mm Blade Height at Heel: 49mm Thickness at spine: 1. 5mm Thickness at 1 cm from the tip: 1. 3mm Handle material: Black micarta Maintenance: Hand wash and wipe dry, NO DISHWASHER Please use the knife as it should be, not frozed food, and not as screw driver Hand sharpen with waterstone, honing rod is not suitable for Japanese knives

This nimai soft iron clad blade has a kasumi surface finish and measures 3

combined with its low price

this knife features an Inox stainless steel blade hardened to 57-59 HRC with a Migaki surface finish

Weighing 212g

The Blue 1 damascus line by Nakagawa offers great fit & finish

and for the first time they are now available in Australia

The Sakai Takayuki Tokujou White 2 Mukimono is a 180mm single bevel utility knife best fit for professional chefs and enthusiasts requiring precise cutting performance

so I kept it

which typically sharpens to a 15-18 degree angle

Function: Rice Bowl

Naohito Myojin (明神 直人) is a young sharpener based in Kochi prefecture

Czar faced the same problem so he came up with this beautiful solution: a beautifully crafted sandpaper holder that solved this problem beautifully: