Hi there, begginer bladesmith and long time lurker, I hadn't posted a blade I made yet so I'd thought I would post this one blade I recently finished for a friend of mine.
K-tip gyuto with a hell of a belly, as request by my friend
190x47mm, 175g
Balance point around 3cm after the heel, quite blade heavy for its size
Suminagashi clad takefu shiro2, around 64hrc
Kurouchi finish with a surface polish to give it some shine, as requested by my friend
Pretty low bevel, with convexed assymetrical right handed geometry
Quite beefy at the edge, around 0.010inches 1mm from the bevel, gets to 0.005 at the tip, the convex geometry makes it glide through stuff easily
Polished on a fine but not too hard nakayama asagi japanese natural stone, no fingerstones used
Edge finished also on that nakayama asagi
Octagonal wa handle, masur birch with african blackwood for the ferrule
Masur birch saya with african blackwood holding pin
Things I like:
- Polishing altought still a bit scratchy still looks clean with a good contrast
- Sooo sharp. Takefu Shiro2 is fun to sharpen and gets stupid sharp quickly, seems a bit more resilient than standard shirogami2. The convex bevel done on the stones helps for the cutting feel
- feels like it can handle well various jobs with that shape
Things I don't like:
- Neck is too long, would have been better 6mm deeper in the handle, epoxy pushed it out so there is an unpleasant machi effect that was involuntary. Didn't bother the least bit my friend but next time I'll do better.
- not enough distal taper, feels almost like a suji in hand. Still cuts good IMO but I'll push it more next time
- I was happy to play with the kurouchi, but I prefer raw finish to this
- that belly is really not my cup of tea, I prefer a flat heel with subtle curve through the length that gets steeper at the nose, but hey, client ask, client get!
-I prefer 50-53mm heel height but that's just me
Curious about your opinion on this one.
Have a great day guys
Btw sorry for the lame pics they were done in the shop with my cellphone, didn't have my camera close by
Photo from my friend happy to put it to good use
Here is how it cuts
And here is how it looked like right after polishing
youtube.com
K-tip gyuto with a hell of a belly, as request by my friend
190x47mm, 175g
Balance point around 3cm after the heel, quite blade heavy for its size
Suminagashi clad takefu shiro2, around 64hrc
Kurouchi finish with a surface polish to give it some shine, as requested by my friend
Pretty low bevel, with convexed assymetrical right handed geometry
Quite beefy at the edge, around 0.010inches 1mm from the bevel, gets to 0.005 at the tip, the convex geometry makes it glide through stuff easily
Polished on a fine but not too hard nakayama asagi japanese natural stone, no fingerstones used
Edge finished also on that nakayama asagi
Octagonal wa handle, masur birch with african blackwood for the ferrule
Masur birch saya with african blackwood holding pin
Things I like:
- Polishing altought still a bit scratchy still looks clean with a good contrast
- Sooo sharp. Takefu Shiro2 is fun to sharpen and gets stupid sharp quickly, seems a bit more resilient than standard shirogami2. The convex bevel done on the stones helps for the cutting feel
- feels like it can handle well various jobs with that shape
Things I don't like:
- Neck is too long, would have been better 6mm deeper in the handle, epoxy pushed it out so there is an unpleasant machi effect that was involuntary. Didn't bother the least bit my friend but next time I'll do better.
- not enough distal taper, feels almost like a suji in hand. Still cuts good IMO but I'll push it more next time
- I was happy to play with the kurouchi, but I prefer raw finish to this
- that belly is really not my cup of tea, I prefer a flat heel with subtle curve through the length that gets steeper at the nose, but hey, client ask, client get!
-I prefer 50-53mm heel height but that's just me
Curious about your opinion on this one.
Have a great day guys
Btw sorry for the lame pics they were done in the shop with my cellphone, didn't have my camera close by
Photo from my friend happy to put it to good use
Here is how it cuts
And here is how it looked like right after polishing
k-tip gyuto polishing job
youtube.com
