The Gessshin Hide Mizu-Honyaki Wa-Gyutos are a special project we have been working on with the maker of our Gesshin Hide line of knives. The Gesshin Hide knives we carry have some of the most perfect grinding i have ever seen with hand made kitchen knives. This project started when Sara and I went to visit the makers of Gesshin Hide. In their shop i saw some really cool honyaki wa-gyutos sitting around. The ones I saw were unfinished, but they prompted me to ask about about doing a custom project to make some similar ones. After some discussion we picked Shiraki-san to forge these blades. He is well know as one of the top blacksmiths in Sakai. A few months later, the knives were finished, and now here they are. To say these are amazing would be an understatement.
Knife Type: Gyuto
Steel Type: Carbon
Handle Type: Ichii Octagon
Construction Type: Honyaki
Hand Orientation: Ambidextrous
Handle Length: 143mm
Handle Height: 26.78mm
Handle Width: 22.13mm
Handle to Tip Length: 244mm
Heel to Tip Length: 224mm
Width of Spine at Middle: 2.55mm
Width of Spine 1cm from the Tip: 1.23mm
Width of Spine at Handle: 3.54mm
Width of Spine above Heel: 3.43mm
Blade Thickness 1/2 way between the Spine and Edge: 2.49mm
The Gessshin Hide Mizu-Honyaki Wa-Gyutos are a special project we have been working on with the maker of our Gesshin Hide line of knives. The Gesshin Hide knives we carry have some of the most perfect grinding i have ever seen with hand made kitchen knives. This project started when Sara and I went to visit the makers of Gesshin Hide. In their shop i saw some really cool honyaki wa-gyutos sitting around. The ones I saw were unfinished, but they prompted me to ask about about doing a custom project to make some similar ones. After some discussion we picked Shiraki-san to forge these blades. He is well know as one of the top blacksmiths in Sakai. A few months later, the knives were finished, and now here they are. To say these are amazing would be an understatement.
Knife Type: Gyuto
Steel Type: Carbon
Handle Type: Ichii Octagon
Construction Type: Honyaki
Hand Orientation: Ambidextrous
Handle Length: 137mm
Handle Height: 26.74mm
Handle Width: 22.85mm
Handle to Tip Length: 276mm
Heel to Tip Length: 255mm
Width of Spine at Middle: 2.44mm
Width of Spine 1cm from the Tip: 1.46mm
Width of Spine at Handle: 3.22mm
Width of Spine above Heel: 3.06mm
Blade Thickness 1/2 way between the Spine and Edge: 2.53mm
The Gesshin Stainless 210mm Wa-Gyuto is a Japanese Knife Imports exclusive. It is a tried-and-true soldier in the kitchen, a venerable workhorse in the Japanese culinary knife world. For our premium edition we have rounded and polished the spine and choil and installed an octagonal yaki sugi ichii handle. The yaki sugi really accentuates the figuring of the wood and creates a twisted rebar sort of look. The overall feeling of these knives is very premium and comfortable.
Knife Type: Gyuto
Steel Type: AUS-8 Stainless
Handle Type: Octagonal Yaki Sugi Ichii
Construction Type: Mono-Steel
Hand Orientation: Ambidextrous
Handle Length: 125mm
Handle Height: 26.43mm
Handle Width: 21.09mm
Handle to Tip Length: 226mm
Heel to Tip Length: 208mm
Width of Spine at Handle: 1.87mm
Width of Spine above Heel: 2.08mm
Width of Spine at Middle: 1.72mm
Width of Spine 1cm from the Tip: 0.55mm
Blade Thickness 1/2 way between the Spine and Edge: 1.52mm