Gyuto knife, Shirogami 1 Honyaki, Polished finish - Nakagawa Hamono

Satoshi Nakagawa is the young talent trained at Shiraki Hamono. He is working with a range of carbon and speciality steels and producing some really covetable knives. This time he's made a honyaki or true-forged blade. These blades use a mono steel construction which is then differentially hardened. This basically means the edge is harder than the spine. The wave line, or hamon, seen on the blade face is an indication that the blade has been hardened in this way. These are the hardest knives to make and failure rate is high. 

SHAPE: Gyuto. Japan's answer to the chef's knife with a thinner profile. Gyuto translates to cow sword..

STEEL: Shirogami (white paper) 1 steel. This steel has the highest amount of carbon out of the paper steels so will get crazy sharp easily. Due to the non stainless nature of this steel care must be taken to dry the knives properly after use. 

FINISH: Migaki or polished

HANDLE: Octagonal Ebony handle with white buffalo horn ferrule and one silver spacer

BLADE LENGTH: 240mm.

MAKER: Nakagawa Hamono

BEST FOR: Those looking to own a knife from one of the newer talents coming from Sakai.

SAUNDERS SAYS: "Is there anything that Nakagawa-san can't do??"