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Daisuke Nishida White Paper #1 Damascus Chef’s Knives with Special Custom Handles

Daisuke’s Damascus blades with special handles are made with an inner core of Yasuki’s traditional Hagane — Shiroko / White Paper No.1 Hard Steel, which has been widely used for a very long time in Japan — supportedly by a layer of softer persistent steel for an exceptionally sharp and smooth cutting experience. Of particular …

Yu Kurosaki NEW GEKKO VG-XEOS Chef Knives

The material VG-XEOS combines high corrosion resistance and high hardness at a high dimension to achieve excellent rust hygiene characteristics and a long-lasting edge. Yu Kurosaki Moon Light – NEW GEKKO – series are crafted out of newly developed VG-XEOS Stainless Steel for professional. The handles on these knives are Half Rounded Octagonal Oak wood …

Kanetsune Premium Damascus NAMISHIBUKI & MINAMO-KAZE Petty Knives in Gift Box

KANETSUNE “Namishibuki(wave splash of the ocean)” & “Minamo-Kaze(breeze on water surface)” are premium damascus knives because of the unique damascus pattern as well as their rare stylish handles. Regarding NAMISHIBUKI, its blade features 101 Layer unique-Damascus-patterned blades with a core of high speed powder hard stainless steel. The nicely finished blade by skilled craftsmen in …

Muneaki YASUGI Kurouchi Nashiji Chef’s Gyuto Knives with Premium Handles by YAEGASHI

This YASUGI knife series by MUNEAKI are creaated in collaboration with a designer as Tokyo Handicraft Certified Product, semi-order kitchen knives with blades and handles selected to suit the user’s taste and enjoy the sharpness and texture of the blade. There are three types of blade finishes: “KUROUCHI & NASHIJI(Black & Pear skin finished)”, “NASHIJI(Pear …

Sakai Takayuki ENTEN Arch-shaped Ginsan Damascus Sakimaru Knives 390mm Launched

The longest version 390mm of “ENTEN” has successfully been added to the conventional ones. The ENTEN features stylish Arched-shape with rare Ginsan Suminagashi-Damascus texture, which is forged and sharpened carefully one by one by skillful craftsmen in Sakai. The combination of Ginsan stainless core & Damascus texture & Arched-shape is quite special in addition to …

Back in stock! Takeshi Saji R2 Black Damascus Chef Knives with Brown Antler Handle

Takeshi Saji SG2/R2 Damascus series feature Damascus-patterned blades with a core of SG2 (Super Gold 2 or R2) Micro Carbide Powder Stainless Steel for professional with a hardness of approx. 63 HRC, which provides excellent rust resistance and a long-lasting edge as well as its beautifulness and unique design with custom-made feeling. The stylish handle …

NEW! Yu Kurosaki SENKO-EI Chefi Knives with Turquoise & Ebony Stylish Custom Handle

We’re pleased to announce to you that New Yu Kurosaki SENKO-EI with Turquoise & Ebony Custom handle has been first launched. The stylish custom handle on the knife is hand crafted out of turquoise & ebony wood, a high-grade, clean, very hard and enormously durable material that will last decades. It is so easy to …

Takeshi Saji VG10W Vivid-Rainbow-Colored Damascus Nashiji Chef Knives with Spotted Corian Handle

Takeshi Saji Rainbow-colored VG10W Damascus Nashiji series feature special blades with a core of VG-10-W (New Material) stainless steel cladded with multiple layers of rust-resistant stainless steel, brass and copper, which provides a long-lasting edge as well as its beautifulness and unique multi-metal-colored texture with custom-made feeling. The stylish handle on the knife is hand …

Made in Tokyo – “EDOUCHI” Sophisticated Chef’s Knives by MUNEAKI

This EDOUCHI knife series by Muneaki are creaated in collaboration with a designer as Tokyo Handicraft Certified Product, very rare and valuable right now because of a discontinued product line. The thin & narrow width of the blade, forged in traditional manufacturing method “Sohi-zukuri” originates from the Japanese sword-making technique, is made of Yasugi Shirogami …

Shigeki Tanaka R2 Black Damascus Chef Knife Gyuto with Custom Desert Ironwood Handle

Shigeki Tanaka’s R2 Black Finished Beautiful Damascus Chef Knife with Ironwood Handle series must impress you, because the knives are extraordinarily sharper by his own quenching than all the other SG2 blades and that the custom handles have better figure to fit your hand. This Black-finished Japanese SG2(R2) stainless steel is one of the hardest …

[Left Handed] Sakai Takayuki Tokujyo Supreme Traditional & Stylish Kiritsuke Deba Knives

We’re happy to introduce the stylish but traditional version (for Left-handed persons) of Sakai Takayuki Tokujyo Supreme blade. The top of the blade features a stylish kiritsuke shape with the traditional deba body to slaughter/fillet fish.   The Tokujyo is made to put soft kitchen knife iron on Yasuki’s traditional Nihonko or Hagane — Shiroko …

Yu Kurosaki SENKO-EI Stylish Sharp Shape R2 Chef Knives with Wite-Ring Walnut Handle

New face of Yu Kurosaki SENKO-EI series are available with rare striped-white handle. The SENKO-EI feature its sharp-pointed shape – “EI (sharp)” or “EIJIN (sharp knife)” in Japanese. The shining surface of the blade has unique hammered texture which conjures numerous fireworks, “SENKO”.   The handle is made of octagonal-shaped walnut with striped-white ferrule for …

[Special for Left-handed] Sakai Takayuki ENTEN Arch-shaped Ginsan Damascus Sakimaru(Sashimi) Knives

The ENTEN Sakimaru Takohiki Sashimi Knife for Left-handed persons is our special order item, which features stylish Arched-shape with rare Ginsan Suminagashi-Damascus texture, which is forged and sharpened carefully one by one by skillful craftsmen in Sakai. Stylish Arched-Shape Ginsan Damascus Blade The combination of Ginsan stainless core & Damascus texture & Arched-shape is quite …

Shigeki Tanaka HABAKIRI SG2/R2 Damascus Knives with Ebony Handle

Shigeki Tanaka SG2 Damascus (HABAKIRI) Slicers with white-ringed Ebony Wood handle that represents high-status feature beautiful Damascus-patterned blades with a core of SG2 (Super Gold 2) micro carbide powder stainless steel, known as one of the hardest blade steel in the world, min.63 Rockwell scale(HRC). This Black-finished Japanese SG2 stainless steel is one of the …

Daisuke Nishida Shirogami No.1 Damascus Chef’s Knives with Special Custom Handles

Daisuke’s Damascus blades with special handles are made with an inner core of Yasuki’s traditional Hagane — Shiroko / White Paper No.1 Hard Steel, which has been widely used for a very long time in Japan — supportedly by a layer of softer persistent steel for an exceptionally sharp and smooth cutting experience. Of particular …

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