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Sometimes you just need money. This is a monster 240mm western deba that's gorgeous, fun to use, and extremely durable and low maintaince. You can use it for refined butchery tasks on (very) large fish or use it as the most elegant of beaters. The heat treatment and thick grind make it capable...

Purchased from Korin with the saya for $150. Initial sharpening by Korin. I've used this on two rib roasts and three pork shoulders and haven't taken it to the stones. It's mostly just sat in its box in VCI paper. There's a light patina in places (and a couple small pits on the back of the blade...

A monster rustic western deba. It's a whopping 9.25mm thick at the heel and maintains a lot of girth along the full length of the blade which is 167mm from heel to tip. Oval rosewood handle with pakka ferrule. Though I've had this knife for years, it's mostly been a drawer queen. I've used it...

Purchased here for $350, asking $245 shipped in the US. Original owner sent the new knife to JKI, who did some serious thinning and made a custom saya for it. Just look at that choil shot! It's the thinnest knife I've ever used, and it cuts like crazy. The saya is also quite nice, but it's not...

This stone is close to brand new. I used it once as a splash and go for less than ten minutes using light pressure. There's no appreciable dishing or wear to the stones surface apart from the logo being partially rubbed off. There are also some very tiny chips on the edges, but nothing that...

I got this new from DC Sharp before it became District Cutlery. Loved the knife so much, I sent it to Carter Hopkins for a custom handle and saya. Saya is honduran rosewood and features a lovely metal pin. Handle is stabilized buckeye burl and buffalo horn. Measures 242 X 52-ish. Check out the...

I purchased this knife new from K&S Australia a few years ago. I saw it and fell in love. It remains the knife with the best fit and finish I've ever seen or held. Grind is awesome, steel is awesome, and it looks like a million bucks. This knife cuts so well it made me buy two other Sukenaris. I...

A weird one I picked up from the K-Sab outlet in South Carolina. Stainless serrated knife with serrations on both sides of the blade. Bread knife? Frozen food knife? Either way, the blade shape is cool. The handle is plastic and terrible. But this knife would be super cool with a rehandle, which...

I know, I know. I bought this one many moons ago because I already had a small set of Globals before joining this forum. Just as it arrived, I discovered KKF and handmade J-knives, and put my new Global in storage while I began to chase the dragon of knife-addiction. Anyway, this knife was used...

Used twice, ended up rusting each time. My fault more than the knife, but I just can’t stand to look at this thing anymore. Plus I have a vintage 270 KSab, so this is kind of redundant. It did make for a killer bread knife the two times I used it! These are $118 new, asking $75. A $43 savings!

The 4K was used once, the 500 was used twice (edit: it was used on roughly five knives) and the 1K got used a fair bit and has a slight amount of dishing. The 500 has even lighter dishing and the 4k is still very flat because it’s next to new. These were $115 at CKTG so... $70 shipped in the US...

Up for sale is a NAS Takeda "small" gyuto with the OG rosewood handle. The blade measures 215mm X 63mm. It was recently thinned by the Takeda Whisperer at District Cutlery and sports a beautiful wenge saya and nickel pin made by Carter Hopkins. Also included is the Takeda handheld sharpening...

I'm the original owner of this Anryu sujihiki. I purchased it from Japanny a year or two before Anryu retired. They had two of these knives in stock, and this one had better fit and finish so I chose it. I am a home cook, so this received light use in the interim years. I have included many...

I'm curious if any of you have recommendations for higher quality pumpkin carving tools. I've mostly been using the carving kits with plastic handles that are ubiquitous in grocery stores across the US. You know... something like this: The tiny saws are especially useful, but the build...

I'm trying to source a pair of Gin No Tsume tweezers, which are like a tiny, burly set of tongs. I bought a pair from Korin a few years ago and someone recently threw them away by accident. It looks like it's out of stock everywhere. Anyone know where I might find some?

I have a friend looking to buy his first 240. When I first started out on this journey, there were many nice 240mm options in the $200-ish range. I bought my Anryu hammered 240 for $199 back in the day. But the market is no longer like that (and certainly not for Anryu's knives). Sure, there are...

Kind of a long shot, but if anyone's got a k-tip 240 Sukenari hairline in HAP40 or YXR7, I'd be interested in picking one up. I just missed the HAP40 during MTC's last knife sale and they're sold out everywhere.

Up for grabs is a 185mm Misono Dragon garasuki. Initial sharpening by JKI. Used on a couple turkeys and a few chickens. There is a bit of pitting along parts of the spine toward the front of the knife caused by storing the knife in a felt-lined edge guard (even though it was well coated in...

I love this knife, but we just had a baby and the NICU bills are coming due, so I need to move some stuff. This is easily the most fun knife in my collection. 300mm X 66mm. Fresh off a thinning and sharpening from Ryan at District Cutlery. Shoulders are thicker toward the heel and it's slicer...

Sujis seem to get lumped together when there are a few attributes that give rise to different sub-classes of suji. Length is an obvious attribute, so I won't discuss it in depth here. The other attributes I think are important are (1) flex/thickness, (2) blade height, and (3) edge bevel ratio...