Trade In Tsukasa Hinoura 165mm Santoku Shirogami 2 Kurouchi

Trade in santoku in excellent condition with original packaging. This san mai shirogami  blade shows little signs of significant usage but the kireba bevel has been worked, but only slightly. Some light restoration work has been done to blend the kireba and clean up some soft corrosion spots. Comes with fresh BC edge.

Hand forged, finished and sharpened in Sanjo Niigata Japan by third generation knifemaker Tsukasa Hinoura. Hinoura-san typically makes his own warikomi forged san-mai but on this series a high quality pre-laminated mild steel clad shirogami 2 material is used keeping the price much, much more affordable. 

Hinoura-San is famous for his heat treatments as well as the beauty of his forging. His shirogami 2 is renown for it's crisp cutting feeling and versatility on sharpening stones. Hinoura-san does all his own finishing in the Sanjo tradition of the knife maker doing all the work involved in finishing a blade.

So much of what a knife does comes down to geometry and heat treatment, both of which are amazingly refined in this series. A distal taper and fine long bevel make for smooth cutting and great edge life. It should be emphasized that these are not stainless and must be kept dry and oiled when not in use.