240mm ProCut San-Mai Gyuto

This 240mm ProCut blade will be my second available in this new and innovative steel. I’ve elected to utilize san-mai construction for my ProCut blades owing to the costs associated with acquiring it. ProCut is a brand new steel released by Pop’s Knife Supply and Larrin Thomas. You could think of ProCut as a steel with the toughness of 80CrV2, the nickel content of 15n20 and edge retention somewhere between 52100 and AEB-L. 

This 240mm ProCut blade features a stone tuned geometry and a very fine 2500 grit finish that was finished with my own special polishing mix that results in a kasumi-like finish without the use of uchigumori. This finish highlights the core steel while creating a smokey haze where some minor carbon migration has occurred and leaves subtle intimations of the endogenous banding within the cladding steel. Interestingly enough it even highlighted a couple of inclusions within the cladding steel.

Blade Details

Blade: 240mmx51mm ProCut+ Low carbon steel (~64/65 hrc) Stone tuned bevels + 2500 grit hand finish + pseudo uchigumori/kasumi polish.

Neck: 17mmx19mm

Handle: Stabilized/dyed maple burl and paper micarta, oil finished, buffed and waxed

POB: 40mm from the handle

Spine: 3.53mm at the handle, 2.42mm at halfway, .68mm 1cm from the tip

Grind: full convex RH bias

Weight: 196g

Relieved choil and spine

Edge: .16mm@1mm, .27mm@2mm from the edge, measured at the midpoint

Blade Special Features

Fully convex ground blade, low carbon clad.

To learn more about ProCut steel click here: https://knifesteelnerds.com/2025/06/04/pops-procut-a-new-carbon-steel-for-knives/