Ebony Handled Gyuto - 268mm

[stephanfowler]

269mm Gyuto, Mizu Honyaki
58mm tall at the heel
2.1mm thick at heel
1.8mm at midpoint

W2 Steel
Ebony Octagon handle with Amboyna spacer and horn ferrule

 

[type00rev]

That's a damn good lookin' knife, Stephan!! Nice work.

 

[Bhamster]

Wow, beautiful job Stephen but don't be getting too much better, you are near to working your way right out of my budget by the looks of it.

 

[jimnolimit]

269mm Gyuto, Mizu Honyaki
58mm tall at the heel
2.1mm thick at heel
1.8mm at midpoint

W2 Steel
Ebony Octagon handle with Amboyna spacer and horn ferrule

first i must say, that knife is beautiful! :thumbup:

what hardness are you running your W2 at?

 

[stephanfowler]

Wow, beautiful job Stephen but don't be getting too much better, you are near to working your way right out of my budget by the looks of it.

i do what I can ;-)

first i must say, that knife is beautiful! :thumbup:

what hardness are you running your W2 at?

I've been getting pretty consistent 59-60 out of this W2 (got it from Don Hanson)

That's a damn good lookin' knife, Stephan!! Nice work.

thanks all of you for the compliments, I truly appreciate them.


(this knife is listed in the for sale forum. fyi)

 

[Michael Rader]

Very nice. Love how that hamon turned out. I've got five W2 blades I recently forged out and heat-treated - I hope they turned out half as nice as this.
-M

 

[stephanfowler]

Very nice. Love how that hamon turned out. I've got five W2 blades I recently forged out and heat-treated - I hope they turned out half as nice as this.
-M

Thanks
personally it's not my favorite, I like much deeper valleys.

this was to be an order knife and the customer asked that I do a more traditional shape to the hamon.
then he saw the matched set and couldn't help but switch over to those. which put this one up for sale.

it's a crazy world we live in, ehh

how's that flitz been working out for you?

 

[Michael Rader]

Hmmm, the Flitz... Well, I've got some Flitz and Simichrome and some other stuff from the auto parts store. Kinda playing around with a lot of things. Don't really have the "perfect" hamon polishing system going yet. Despite Nick Wheeler's WIP on the subject, I just have not put in the elbow grease/time yet. And taking a working kitchen knife up to 2500 grit first is a bit much, as a it kinda scratches easily at that level of polish.. Not that I won't, but I haven't yet.

Stephan, I don't want to de-rail your thread here, so do you have any threads going on elsewhere on this topic?
-M

 

[M.Griffin]

Very nice. Love everything about it.

-Mike