Bernal Cutlery Stories

Based out of Yokkaichi in Mie prefecture, Kagetsu has been a family owned and operated ceramics business for over 160 years.

While there are plenty of opinions concerning which type of blade composition makes the best knife, we’re here to learn and have fun —not to argue; so we will focus on the types of Japanese blade compositions that we see a lot of at the shop, how you can identify them and how knowing more about them can factor into...

Most of the Russell and San Francisco knives that I am the current chaperone of were from the estate of Don Rich, who took a special interest in focusing his many decades of knife collecting on J. Russell Green River Works, A.J. Jordan and the San Francisco makers Will & Finck and Michael Price.

We finally got the Konosuke X Bernal Cutlery Ko-Sabaki knife back in stock. It was the first ever Bernal Cutlery collaboration we did, and getting it back in right now gave some perspective to all the collaborations we have happening and made me grateful to get to work with cooks, butchers, bakers, and of course, knife makers.