One of the Kind ! Only one in Stock !
These beautiful knives are made by Mr. Kiyoshi Kato, born 1944 in Tokyo. He began sword-smith training in 1964, at the age of 20, and is currently a licensed sword smith. He now uses his incredible collection of very old, and difficult to obtain, Tamahagane steels to form his own sword masterpieces.
He entered the field of knife making in 1977 by creating his first hunting and kitchen knives, and currently makes knives in his new Hokuto City workshop, found in the Yamanashi Prefecture.
Mr. Kato uses a special quenching technique, utilizing charcoal and water, which imparts an extra degree of hardness not often seen in regular clad knives.This gives all of his kitchen knives a feel very similar to Honyaki, incredibly stiff with little to no flex!
Mr. Kiyoshi Kato makes very rarely single beveled knives, but when he do he uses a lot of time and care to produce this knives and he makes them only one by one never in batches ! On every tang there is old stile Kanji that telling era and dates when this particular knife is made !
Kato uses Japanese Natural Stones on his single beveld knives and hammers ura and finish it by hand with handheld stone ! Thats why you see that his single beveled cost more
Steel: Blue steel Carbon Clad (can rust !! )
Handle: Ho wood with Blond Buffalo horn
Approx.. measurements:
Handle Length- 120mm
Handle Width- 25mm
Heel to Tip Length- 155mm
Blade Height at Heel- 53mm
Width of Spine at Handle- 6,3mm
Width of Spine Above Heel- 5,8mm
Width of Spine at Middle- 4mm
Width of Spine 1cm from the tip- 1,6mm
Weight- 200g
All knives JNS cary is handmade and made one by one, so they can vary in size and thickness. Unevenness in finish can occur.
