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Gyuto (Chef's Knife)
200mm MagnaCut Gyuto
$520.00A 200mm MagnaCut Gyuto
Blade Details
Blade: 201mmx50mm CPM-MagnaCut (63 hrc) belt finish
Neck: 17mmx17mm
Handle: Paper birch heartwood and Peruvian Walnut, oil finished and waxed
POB: 35mm from the handle
Spine: 2.7mm at the handle, 2.26mm at halfway, .58mm 1cm from the tip
Grind: flat to convex 50/50 ground
Weight: 120g
Relieved choil and spine
Edge: .2mm@1mm, .30mm@2mm from the edge, measured at the midpoint,Blade Special Features
Handle body material sourced locally by the maker
To learn more about MagnaCut click here: https://knifesteelnerds.com/2021/03/25/cpm-magnacut/
For the maker’s summary impressions of MagnaCut click here: https://msicardcutlery.com/knife-making-steel-information-faq/
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Gyuto (Chef's Knife)
200mm MagnaCut Gyuto
$522.00A 200mm MagnaCut gyuto
This 200mm MagnaCut gyuto features a very thin blade with a full convex grind that serves to optimize food release. Colloquially known as “lasers” very thin chef’s knives have a somewhat niche following of diehard adherents who believe “laser” geometry to be superior to all others, and if you’ve ever felt one glide through a potato on only its own weight you’d find it hard to disagree. Food release is of course somewhat impeded in comparison to more workhorse style blades, but the full convex geometry is intended to mitigate that as far as possible.
Blade Details
Blade: 200mmx50mm MagnaCut (~63hrc) belt finish
Neck: 18mmx18mm
Handle: Bolivian Rosewood and Walnut, oil finished and waxed
POB: 20mm from the handle
Spine: 2.12mm at the handle, 1.96mm at halfway, .61mm 1cm from the tip
Grind: full convex 50/50 bias
Weight: 123g
Relieved choil and spine
Edge: .13mm@1mm, .25mm@2mm from the edge, measured at the midpoint
Blade Special Features
Fully convex ground blade
To learn more about MagnaCut steel click here: https://knifesteelnerds.com/2021/03/25/cpm-magnacut/
For the maker’s summative take on MagnaCut click here: https://msicardcutlery.com/knife-making-steel-information-faq/
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Kitchen Knives
Forged Banding 200mm D2 Gyuto
$900.00D2 Tool Steel Is Tariff Free And Falls under CUSMA.
A forged D2 gyuto with banding
This is a special knife utilizing materials I’ve never used previously. In the past I’ve made forged blades of differing varieties that have been etched and polished to reveal the alloy banding within the steel. This is one such blade but in a steel I had previously never worked with, ingot D2 tool steel. Surprisingly this D2 gyuto was less difficult to make than I had anticipated, though still much more difficult than any low alloy steel or A2.
The banding is phenomenally dense and photographing it was a nightmare as the pictures tended to look bland and grainy. There’s just too much detail for a nice macro shot. So while it looks a bit bland and 2D, every white line in actuality represents a bit of figuring that dances in the light as you look over the blade. Next time I forge a D2 gyuto I’ll try to make the activity a bit bolder but I didn’t want to push my luck with this stuff, never having forged it previously.
I also thought I’d try something new for the handle and used a piece of wenge end grain that has a lovely bit of character only occasionally seen on knife handles. It appears lighter than it actually is in the pictures. This D2 gyuto’s banding just refused to be photographed without otherwise excessive exposure.
- Blade: 203mmx57mm Forged D2-Tool Steel 800 grit diamond lapping film finish + etch and polishing cycles
- Neck: 18mmx18mm
- Handle: Wenge endgrain, oil finished and waxed
- POB: 30mm from the handle
- Spine: 2.7mm at the handle, 2.1mm at halfway, .59mm 1cm from the tip
- Grind: full convex
- Weight: 165g
- Relieved choil and spine
- Edge: .17mm@1mm, .32mm @2mm, measured at the midpoint,
To learn more about D2 tool steel click Here
For the makers summative take on various steels click Here
