Nakagawa White Steel Honyaki K-tip Yanagiba 270mm Mirror PolishThe Nakagawa White Steel (White 3) Honyaki is a more practical line of Honyaki knives. While we all LOVE everything to be as exotic as possbile: steel has to be White 1 or Blue 1, and has to be mizu honykai. Fact is, not only it is very difficult to forge and sharpen (hence expensive), it is also quite a bit more delicate compared to the White 3 Abura (oil) Honyaki. For Honyaki, it is naturally harder than the usual Kasumi counterpart. For example a

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166 mm  Blade Height at Heel

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The Sakai Takayuki Tokujou Deba 180mm is a single bevel Japanese fish knife in White 2 carbon steel

Up to 6 layers of slices

165 mm 180 mm Weight 127 g 150 g Total Length 315 mm 322 mm Tip to Heel Length 168 mm 181 mm Blade Height at Heel 47

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210 mm 240 mm Weight 171 g 196 g Total Length 347 mm 385 mm Tip to Heel Length 203 mm 233 mm Blade Height at Heel 52 mm 54

While we all LOVE everything to be as exotic as possbile: steel has to be White 1 or Blue 1