Nakagawa Ginsan Kamagata Usuba 180/210mm Mirror Polished with K&S Ebony Handle

Nakagawa Ginsan Kamagata Usuba 180/210mm Mirror Polished with K&S Ebony HandleAfter the retirement of legendary master craftsman Kenichi Shiraki, Nakagawa san, as Shiraki san's disciple for almost 20 years, is heading the Shiraki Hamono (now as Nakagawa Hamono). In fact, many of Shiraki san's works including honyaki in the last 5 or more years were done by Nakagawa san. Nakagawa san is also forging knives for some top tier lines from Sakai retailers, namely Sakai Kikumori, Sakai Jikko, and some other brands. So K&S now is very

4mm height at the heel and weighs 132g

While we all LOVE everything to be as exotic as possbile: steel has to be White 1 or Blue 1

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184 mm  Blade Height at Heel

Crafted by fourth-generation blacksmith Kunio Masutani in Takefu Knife Village

The cabbage salad shredder by Chiba can turn a half cabbage into finely sliced salad very quickly

It was a dream came true for a knifenut like me to see a master bladesmith in person

The double bevel line of the KS series is a monosteel construction

My experience with the Arata is that it feels identical to Chosera yet is much easier to store or carry around

150 mm Weight 90 g Total Length 293 mm Tip to Heel Length 153 mm Blade Height at Heel 37

the stone is too heavy and to be honest

I realized that this is the real difference between a handforged knife and a machine stamped knife