Nigara Anmon Troll Killer Blue Steel Damascus Kirisuke Yanagiba 300mm with Corian HandleKnives and Stones is proud to bring you Nigara Knife, a boutique knife house based in the beautiful north eastern prefecture of Aomori. With over 350 years of knife making history, and their remote location, Nigara has developed some incredibly unique forging techniques and designs. Their Damascus pattern is one of the most sophisticated patterns that I have seen from Japan makers, and it is called Anmon, which translate to "dark figure". We will

The steel hardened to HRC 57 means the steel will not chip as easily compare to the carbon steel

is famous for is choice of high-end powdered steel

but the same forging techniques such as welding and hammering have been kept alive in the making of kitchen knives since then

Octagonal Wenge Wood with Horn Ferrule

For example a White 2 honyaki will be 1 or 2 HRC harder than a White 2 Kasumi knife

5 mm 245 g Total Length 368 mm 405 mm Tip to Heel Length 238 mm 273 mm Blade Height at Heel 38

I am proud to offer you another unique and exciting product

and handle making processes for this specialist tool

This traditional Japanese profile measures 180mm with a straight edge designed specifically for clean chopping and slicing vegetables into thin continuous sheets

optimising the blade for push-cutting

Fujitora SK carbon steel deba

producing stainless steel knives distributed globally