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January 26th is a Shigefusa day :spiteful: Have a good day, everyone.

Well since I got the tip to watch Midnight diner: Tokyo stories on Netflix, I have gone to watch most of the available Shinya shokudo material. There are 3 earlier series on Japanese TMS and MBS networks, 10 episodes each for each season. Netflix now has the right going forward and has season...

James of Knives and Stones gave me this Deng Xiaowen clever to give it a try a while ago. Deng Xiaowen is a brand from Dazu, famous knife making town in Sichuan province. KKF reader may have seen Dazu reference popping up from time to time. Noodle Soup has some threads about Dazu, Cleaver, and...

This beautiful Sakai Takayuki version of Doi Blue 2 Yanagiba has been mostly sitting in the drawer since I got it off Casaluz a while back. Per Casaluz, it was originally purchased in Japan and was one of the last batch of available Senior Keiijiro Doi's knives. It is 270mm, comes with ebony...

Hi all, Up for grab is immaculate condition Shigefusa Kurouchi Chukabocho. It is a full size, thin, slicing cleaver at 21.5x10.5 and weigh just 390g. It comes with Maxim's hand made saya and stand. This is a great light, slicing, cleaver. It is very thin and would go through hard veggie with...

Well, these listings are not new, but they just got some price reduction: At japan-tool.com Heiji SS chuka, 65K JPY Heiji SS suji 270mm, 35K JPY Heiji SS santoku 210mm, 25K JPY Heiji SS santoku 180mm, 17K JPY Pretty decent prices for what's available now.

I have a very nice Carter KU gyuto for sale. It is a very good performing knife, but at the moment, my preference is a touch heavier knife. Current spec, heel to tip: 233mm, heel height: 49mm, spine width at heel: 4mm, weight: 193g. It also comes with a nice saya, and a very nice Huon pine...

Hi there, I am researching for appliances for my kitchen. Is anyone, member from Europe in particular, familiar with Atag/Gorenje cook top and oven? For cooktop, I am looking for info for this model, for their wok burner in particular. I have no idea if their design of the inner burner...

It's been about a couple of months since I received a custom order Sakai Takayuki blue #1 honyaki gyuto from James of knivesandstones.com, our local Aussie vendor here. James has also been giving me some preview guys for a play, for which, two will be available for sale, namely, Syousin blue...

It is officially already a 2015 morning here down under. Happy New Year everyone.

For sale is a mint Shigefusa kasumi petty 150mm with lots of cloud. Apart from my polishing to bring the cloud out, it has only been used lightly at home. 255 USD shipped to US/Canada/UK and some European countries . Fellow Ozzies, PM for AUD deal. More pictures here...

Up for sale is a very good home used condition Yoshikane blue #2 deba 180mm: edge 183mm, height 55mm, spine thickness at the heel 6.5mm, at the tip where it meets shinogiline 3.5mm, weight 310g. It comes with fitted saya, and a number of love bites from many snappers it has seen. 285USD +...

Continuing with clearing out some of my knives. Up on offer next is an excellent condition Heiji Swedish carbon 240mm gyuto: 247mm edge, 50mm tall, 244g light. Spine and choil are polished and rounded. Behind the edge and tip are very thin. And it has a pronounced distal taper, something along...

I have played with this Carter that I got from David (CB1968) (and previously Len (echerub) ) for about a month. It is a very nice knife and cuts very well. I think it lives up to expectation for Carter's knife from what I have heard. Anyway, I just got my new unicorn, so this Carter is up for...

I have come to realised that I should just keep mainly my Shigefusa single bevel knives. So up for sale here are two gorgeous knives, Gesshin Hide kensaki yanagiba blue #1 300mm mirror polished and Sakai takayuki kamagata usuba blue #2 210mm mirror polished. Gesshin Hide was a custom order...

Up for sale is a lightly used DMT-XXC, 50USD + shipping. I have used it mainly for stone flattening and sometimes for grinding down tip area to fix broken tip.

Up for sale is a Gesshin Heiji Semi Stainless gyuto I recently got it off Huw from this sale: http://www.kitchenknifeforums.com/showthread.php/17786-A-few-for-sale where he previously bought if of this sale...

I have recently acquired a really cool Yoshihide western suji. Because I don't use a suji that much at all so I am letting another really cool suji go. Yoshikane 270mm SLD damascus suji is still in shiny like-new condition. It has been used sparingly since purchased from Maxim a year or so...

Received the new red stone from Maximo's last week sale on Monday and have been playing with it for a bit. It is quite as Maxim describes, fairly similar to red Atagoyama, both in hardness and fineness. I think it is quite a performer for wide bevel (single bevel knives included) carbon...

Jon is away for the NY food show to represent Gesshin Hide craftsmen. I recalled that two years ago when he went there, one of his new knife that I also custom ordered was also at the show, a kensaki yanagiba, about 6.30" in, in this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr6M9gsstFw A...