Toshu Special Selection, Damascus Blade Santoku, Octagonal Handle

Chef knives made by Toshu have all of five features that finest kitchen knives must have. Toshu makes knives using traditional Japanese swordsmiths’ techniques, “Hizukuri Forging” and “Edo-Togi grind”. This knife has blade length of 200mm/7.87in which is in between Santoku multi-purpose and Gyuto chef knives. You can use it for multi purposes, especially good for cutting relatively large foods. Handle is designed in higher grade style for authentic chef knives; octagonal cut wood handle made of Japanese Magnolia, finished by genuine Water Buffalo horn. Beautiful Damascus pattern blade material is the finest stainless steel VG-10. This material makes the blade very hard whose rockwell hardness (HRC) is about 62, therefore cutting quality is excellent and it lasts long. Furthermore, the extremely sharp blade is thin enough to handle like a feather because total weight of this knife is only 120g. Just for reference, steel blade knife of similar size weighs approximately 200g.

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