Gesshin Hide 270mm Blue #1 Honyaki Wa-Gyuto (Special Project)

The Gessshin Hide 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 thier 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, and is particularly talented when it comes to Blue #1 steel. A few months later, the knives were finished, and now here they are.  To say these are amazing would be an understatement.

Measurements: 
• Handle Length- 142mm
• Handle Height- 27.6mm
• Handle Width- 22.1mm
• Handle to Tip Length- 272mm
• Heel to Tip Length- 254mm
• Blade Height at Heel- 51.5mm
• Width of Spine at Handle- 4.4mm
• Width of Spine Above Heel- 3.9mm
• Width of Spine at Middle- 2.7mm
• Width of Spine about 1cm from the tip- 1.25mm
• Blade Thickness at 1/2 way between the Spine and Edge at the heel- 2.70mm
• Blade Thickness 1cm from edge at the heel- 1.5mm
• Blade Thickness 1cm from edge at midpoint- 1.25mm
• Blade Thickness 1cm from edge near tip- 0.65mm 
• Weight- 253g