160mm

A 160mm 26c3 san-mai santoku

It’s been a while since I posted any new work, it’s been a crazy month and among other things I now have a power hammer in my shop that I’ve been learning how to use. This 160mm 26c3 san-mai santoku is the first of those forged blades to be made available and others will be posted in the coming days. The blade has stone set bevels with good convexity, and while I didn’t go nuts removing every single grinder scratch from the blade 98% of them are gone. Initially I tried a coticule kasumi on one side and got some scratching so I swapped to my uchigumori finger stones to a much better effect and that’s what I’ll stick with from here on out.

• Blade: 160mmx56mm 26c3/mild san-mai (64/65hrc) – stone set bevels + 2500 grit hand finish + finger stone kasumi polish
• Neck: 18mmx19mm
• Handle: Cocobolo+walnut, oil finished and waxed
• POB: 32mm from the handle
• Spine: 2.9mm at the handle, 1.96mm at halfway, 1.65mm 1cm from the tip
• Grind: full convex high bevel 50/5
• Weight: 165g
• Relieved choil and spine
• Edge: .15mm@1mm, .33mm @2mm,  1.7mm at the shinogi measured at the midpoint,

For the maker’s summative take on 26c3 steel click: Here

To learn more about 26c3 steel click Here