What do you guys think of Kanetsune knives?

TheDandyLion

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Just came across this company. I really love the look of Japanese style knives and these are certainly no exception but I wonder about their durability. They run the knives really hard so I wonder if they would chip out with hard use, otherwise they look like very usable knives. Just wondering if anyone had experience using these knives.

Here's a link to their site: http://www.kanetsune.com/
I like the look of the 249 model personally

Jake
 
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Not sure about the knives, but the make some awesome looking sheaths. Make sure to let us know how they are if you pull the trigger on one.
 
Slipperyfish said:
Not sure about the knives, but the make some awesome looking sheaths. Make sure to let us know how they are if you pull the trigger on one.
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The sheaths look beautiful not sure about practicality of them but hey sure look cool .I was hoping to hear some reviews before buying one but if I do anyway I'll make a detailed postr
 
I did have a couple Aogami fixed blades that were overhardened. One folder i bought was a simple primitive lockback type with a wood grip and aogami blade. The blade chipped apart as I tried to sharpen it and it was a convex. This was about 3 years ago and I haven't bought one since so they may be over that. Some of the blades were of a shape that regular flat stones wouldn't do it. Something like Spyderco's system was needed. The over hardened blades chipped apart especially on round type sharpeners . That isn't especially unusual on high hardness alloy steels but this did it even with a very light touch.

Some of the inexpensive ones have a fake coating on them to give the appearance of forge scale. Don't like that feature.

For the price and with the excellent materials it's a shame they don't do better on a consistent basis. The heat treat needs to be broughtup to current standards IMO.

Joe
 
The Mastiff said:
I did have a couple Aogami fixed blades that were overhardened. One folder i bought was a simple primitive lockback type with a wood grip and aogami blade. The blade chipped apart as I tried to sharpen it and it was a convex. This was about 3 years ago and I haven't bought one since so they may be over that. Some of the blades were of a shape that regular flat stones wouldn't do it. Something like Spyderco's system was needed. The over hardened blades chipped apart especially on round type sharpeners . That isn't especially unusual on high hardness alloy steels but this did it even with a very light touch.

Some of the inexpensive ones have a fake coating on them to give the appearance of forge scale. Don't like that feature.

For the price and with the excellent materials it's a shame they don't do better on a consistent basis. The heat treat needs to be broughtup to current standards IMO.

Joe
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Hmm... That's what I was hoping not to hear. I really love the designs and materials but if their HT isn't up to snuff than I'm not very interested
 
I have not got much experience with Kanetsune knives, at least not working with them. I have bought a few blades and made the handles. One thing that I can say: I was not impressed with the grind and choose to refinish it myself. It was indeed convex, but not like Fallkniven, but in some rough halfassed way...
 
Poez said:
I have not got much experience with Kanetsune knives, at least not working with them. I have bought a few blades and made the handles. One thing that I can say: I was not impressed with the grind and choose to refinish it myself. It was indeed convex, but not like Fallkniven, but in some rough halfassed way...
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How did you refinish them?
 
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