Forged, Laminated and heat-treated by Bryan Raquin from France Auvergne region, with 145SC steel laminated with XC10 cladding with lots of banding (clouds) that you also see on Shigefusa knives, very difficult to capture on photo.
Then it is grinder and finished with natural stones in house at JNS, choil and spine is rounded and polished, finished with Uchigumori fingerstones (included with the knife)
Made from 145SC Ultra pure carbon steel SC stands for Super Clean.
At Lohmann in Germany Less then one ton was ever made of this steel from a brand new steel furnace thats how they could achieve the purity of the steel
It was a project for Achim Wirtz
Composition of the steel :
C = 1,44 – 1,46 %
Mn = 0,24 – 0,27 %
Si = traces
P ≤ 0,006 %
S ≤ 0,003 %
Fe = balance
Steel: C145SC Carbon Clad XC10 (can rust !! )
Handle: Octoganal ebony Handle buffalo horn Made in Sanjo
Approx.. measurements:
Handle Length- 130mm
Handle Width- 20mm
Heel to Tip Length- 155mm
Blade Height at Heel- 50mm
Width of Spine at Handle- 5mm
Width of Spine Above Heel- 3,3mm
Width of Spine at Middle- 2mm
Width of Spine 1cm from the tip- 1,8mm
wight 185 g
