This beautiful Damascus Nakiri knife was handcrafted by our knife master Masaaki Saito here in Aspley, Brisbane.
Nakiri is the traditional Japanese multipurpose knife with rectangular blade shape.
The name “ Na “ can be translated as Vegetables and “ Kiri “ as cut, cutting or cutter.
As the name suggest, it is great for shredding vegetables of all sorts, except something extremely hard or fibrous .
The straight blade does very clean cutting when used with cutting back and forth motions but when you try to cut with rocking motions, the pressure escapes as the tip and heel bumps the chopping board and bounce.
The blade is made from AUS-10 stainless steel ( premium Japanese stainless steel ) as the core, sanmai clad with nickel Damascus.
AUS-10 stainless steel has an amazing reputations as a blade material and has great wear resistance, balanced hardness.
This knife has a decent weight ( 210g ) so suits someone who likes medium to heavy knives.
The bevel starts tapering from high up to achieve very smooth cutting performances.
The handle is made of black Mulga which is a very dense Australian hardwood.
This Nakiri not only beautiful to look at but also a true workhorse in your knife set.
| Total Length | 333mm |
| Blade Length | 180mm |
| Blade Width | 48mm |
| Blade Thickness | 2.5mm |
| Weight | 210g |
| Handle Length | 133mm |
| Blade | AUS-10 core / Nickel Damascus Steel |
| Handle | Black Mulga ( Acacia ) |
| HRC | 60+ |
