Regular price $540.00 Sale price $540.00 Unit price / per . Saji Bunka Rainbow Damascus 170mm (6.7") € 550.00 Sold Out. The Gyuto is true multi-purpose knife. He began his path immediately after high school, apprenticing under his father Harukichi Saji. JapaneseChefsKnife.Com (JCK, Established in 2003) is the direct internet sales Blade Material: White Steel No.1. is handcrafted by Echizen master blacksmith Takeshi Saji using Aogami Super (Blue Super) core steel, and heat-treated to 63-64 HRC. 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His knife blades are shaped by traditional hammer-forging technique with his unique ideas and designs, to achieve a beautiful, powerful appearance and a quite sharp cutting edge with better hardness. Saji Gyuto Rainbow Damascus 210mm (8.3") is definitely not just a looker. Sold Out. The grind is beautifully done as with all Saji knives, with a refined kasumi finish applied. This knife is the Japanese knife makers answer to the western “chef knife”. Knife Model: Hinoura Kurouchi White Steel No.1 Series Wa Gyuto 240mm. He makes custom knives and even billhooks, and his name is well known to collectors all over the world. Sakai Takayuki Knives has been cultivated through a long 600-year history by skilled craftsmen in Sakai.The Homura Aoko is made by the skilled blacksmith Itsuo Doi. Fujiwara Teruyasu White Steel No.1 Nashiji Gyuto Japanese Knife 210mm with Magnolia Handle. Takeshi Saji is the leading blacksmith in Echizen. Regular price $545.00 Sale price $545.00 Unit price / per . 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