Tag:Knives

Nakushima Damascus Another knife arrived today and again from a Kickstarter campaign I pledged last year. The knife was designed by the Dane Aske Bisgaard Pedersen. It’s made of VG-10 covered by 66 layers of Damascus steel. It has a Rockwell hardness of 61-62 HRC. Together with the Fiery Phoenix the hardest knives in the …
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Forged Brute Nakiri Received this beautiful knife for Christmas from my lovely wife. It’s the Nakiri of the Brute series made by Forged. Forged is a brand of Style de Vie Authentique.It has a very brute, simplistic but very intriguing design. The concept is just one piece of steel, like it a lot. Forged completely …
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BARE Knives Another Kickstarter campaign I backed this year. The knife has a unique texture of mountains on the flanks. The looks are really great. Upon arrival I took the paper test and it failed miserably, it wouldn’t cut at all through the paper. I needed the strop it for 15 minutes on the leather …
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Tuo Cutlery – TC1411 Nakiri 6.5″ Osprey Series A second knife from the Tuo Cutlery knife makers. This time instead of a Chef knife, a Nakiri. A Nakiri knife is a traditional Japanese vegetable knife. Nakiri knife is suitable for mincing, slicing and dicing several meat. The Nakiri is a double bevel edged knife with thin blade …
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This knife arrived yesterday. I ordered it on Kickstarter, have been supporting quite some projects there lately. It’s the Gyuto Knife Mach #2 from Koi Knives Australia.It’s made from AUS-10 stainless steel with a nice damascus look. The handle is made from Blue Gidgee wood, gathered in the great Simpson Dessert in central Australia by …
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Another nice chef knife for the collection. It’s my first real Japanese knife, the 7000D Gyutoh from Miyabi. It’s sharpened at 10° which make it feel extremely sharp, by far the sharpest knife out of the factory I ever had in my hands. It’s made of CMV60 Cryodur steel. Cryodur stands for the hardening technique …
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Another knife for the collection. Isn’t she a beauty? I present you the Fiery Phoenix 8″ Chef knife from Tuo Cutlery. This one is made in China of AUS-10 Damascus steel. It has a hardness grade of 62 HRC, that makes it for now the hardest knife in the collection.The sharpening is very smooth and …
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This is the newest addition to my knife collection. The Ikon 9″, a German made 9″ chef knife from Wüsthof. The knife is forged of X50CrMoV15 steel which gives it a hardness grade of 58 HRC. The handle, the workmanship, the quality, they are all exceptionally good. Keep on eye on https://egregius.be/knife-collection-overview/ for more knives to …
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I got to know the company Misen through Kickstarter. They had a campaign there for carbon steel pans. After some searching I learned that their knives got pretty good reviews so I ordered the 5 piece Essentials Knife Set. The knives are made from Japanese AUS-10 steel ( except the serrated is from AUS-8 steel) …
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I recently developed some kind of addiction to buy nice kitchen knives. Especially chef knives are my favorite. Below are some images of my first real knife set. About 15 years ago I bought the Chroma Cutlery type 301 series. Back in the days these knives were all over television. About any chef that had a …
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