Got some Hitachi Blue Super San Mai!!

Leethal Cutlery

Leethal Cutlery

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Got some blue super and wanted to show y'all what I did with it. It's cladded in wrought iron. This stuff is crazy. It takes a really keen edge. I think I'm gonna have to make myself a knife out of this stuff. Anybody else have any experience with this
 
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How was it to work with ? I really would like to try some of it down the road a bit.
 
Marko3 said:
How was it to work with ? I really would like to try some of it down the road a bit.
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It was really nice to work with! Forging went well, so did the heat treat. I know hitachi steel has a kind of mystique quality to it but was really pleasant and easy to work with.
 
I gues that was what I was getting at. Was not sure I would be worthy of using such a steel. I'm mostly into forging and I was just reading a little bit about the Hitachi Steels. Love the way it finished . What was your last grit you used on it.

Leethal Cutlery said:
It was really nice to work with! Forging went well, so did the heat treat. I know hitachi steel has a kind of mystique quality to it but was really pleasant and easy to work with.
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600 grit. It seems to have finished better at 600 then other steels I've used do. Maybe it was just me being careful but I dunno.
 
Make yourself a kitchen knife from it and you will toss all your other knives back in the drawer.

Laminated aogami and laminated shirogami are two of my favorite steels........and worth every penny of the cost.
 
Nice looking knife. Where did you happen to find the steel?

Did you go to the show this weekend? I saw one that looked very similar but the maker wasn't at the table so I don't know who made it.
 
bladsmth said:
Make yourself a kitchen knife from it and you will toss all your other knives back in the drawer.

Laminated aogami and laminated shirogami are two of my favorite steels........and worth every penny of the cost.
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Couldn't agree with you more Stacy! I have a Takeda blue super Gyuto and a tojiro white steel Nakiri and they are my absolute favorites! I trashed everything else after that. They are amazing steels. Unfortunately the billets I have aren't big enough for many kitchen knives though maybe a Yanagi-ba... That'd be fun
 
jawilder said:
Nice looking knife. Where did you happen to find the steel?

Did you go to the show this weekend? I saw one that looked very similar but the maker wasn't at the table so I don't know who made it.
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I have a few friends in Japan that hunted it down for me. No I wasn't able to make it. I've been busy trying to catch up on orders and completely forgot about it. How was it?
 
More of a gun show than anything else. But k&g, pops, and r.w. Wilson were there, so there was plenty to buy.
 
The laminated and other Hitachi steels can be purchased from Workshopheaven in the UK, as well as Dictum (Dick steel) in Germany.
http://www.workshopheaven.com/tools/steel_billets.html
http://www.mehr-als-werkzeug.de/category/Staehle-3624_3628.htm

The width varies from 1.2 to 1.6" but the steel can easily be drawn down at the edge to make the blade area wider. Beyond that, I rarely forge the laminated and suminagashi billets. The non-laminated white and blue steel billets forge well, and you can make most any knife you want from the available sizes.

Shipping from Dictum is actually pretty cheap. Workshopheaven is reasonable.
I just got a large batch in December, that I have barely started using. I need to get busy.
 
I've used dictum before and they were really good and fast. I just wish either of those sites had more then just blue #2 and white #2 although the white #2 nakiri I have is pretty awesome.
 
When it comes to this blue super I've really taken to Murray Carter's methods with great results. I did this one just by color and feel. No temp gauges like when I do my w2 or 1095 knives. I tried to keep it somewhat old school
 
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