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Jose Suro

Jose Suro

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Got it shipped in and arrived yesterday. A Left handed 270mm Yanagi by Yoshihiro :). Left handed ones are almost impossible to find

Best,

Jose

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A Left handed 270mm Yanagi by Yoshihiro
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Ok Jose, please tell why it is LEFT HANDED? :D

edit: I got it: Yoshihiro Kasumi Yanagi Sushi Sashimi Japanese Chef knife (Left-Handed)
(D-shape Natural Magnolia Handle)

Very Nice!
 
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Jim Lampe said:
Ok Jose, please tell why it is LEFT HANDED? :D

edit: I got it: Yoshihiro Kasumi Yanagi Sushi Sashimi Japanese Chef knife (Left-Handed)
(D-shape Natural Magnolia Handle)

Very Nice!
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Thanks Jim! It's also about the blade. The edge bevel and angle of Yanagi knives and other Japanese knives is only on one side, in this case on the left side. The right side of the kinfe is concave. Single edge knives are much sharper than traditional western knives with bevels on both sides. The concave right side keeps the blade off the main piece that is being sliced, while the left side, which is somewhat convex pushes the slices away from the knife and makes for a very clean, delicate cut. They are not ambidextrous for that reason.

Best,

Jose
 
Very nice! Also that was a very interesting description of why it's left handed and how it works. Sure beats my bench grinder modified butter knife.
 
They make awesome sashimi knives. For my daily drivers I have a set of Tojiros. Even my wife can't totally F them up. :) The really good knives like my Masakage Zeros I keep hidden. Wife would be chopping celery on the granite counters with them if they were left out. LOL
 
Beautiful Jose, my Mac and my Global's along with my Shun has served me well. But someday I may try one of those. I've gotten to the point where I keep them scary sharp and my CEO stays away cause she knows she would slice herself wide open. So I keep them in a high closet out of the reach of 5'2 peeps
 
Bill Schultz said:
Jose, and everyone else actually, this is who I learned from. Master Takeda. Pick up one of those Japanese wet stones and you can make any knife crazy sharp

Check this out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM8U3AHvLa4&index=13&list=FLns3ZZFyFyL469nAKSB7PZg
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Thanks for the link Bill. I always look for new info. That said I've been at this game for a bit and own 8 Japanese water stones :). Some I'm using are Naniwa Chosera stones, each with its own Nagura stone for creating the "mud" so important to sharpen the knives.

I recently found a new YouTube channel by Korin Knives in NY. They have a lot of sharpening videos that changed my technique. There are different techniques depending on each individual knife design. This is the intro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zRNT1v0-7s&index=19&list=PLsSxXLQSZIe__A5THcrFGto9_PSkXWiN6

And this is the technique that applies to the knife on this post (English subtitles):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExpQB_WF5ug&list=PLsSxXLQSZIe__A5THcrFGto9_PSkXWiN6&index=14

Just today I sharpened my Garasuki boning knife using their technique and it is the sharpest knife in the house now, incredible :).

Their website - They have a lot of stuff in there - not just knives, including Japanese pickling containers:
http://korin.com/site/home.html

Best,

Jose
 
Bill Schultz said:
Beautiful Jose, my Mac and my Global's along with my Shun has served me well. But someday I may try one of those. I've gotten to the point where I keep them scary sharp and my CEO stays away cause she knows she would slice herself wide open. So I keep them in a high closet out of the reach of 5'2 peeps
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LOL! I do the same thing! She has her own set of Henckels, which I sharpen for her, OFTEN :).
 
Tom Golden said:
They make awesome sashimi knives. For my daily drivers I have a set of Tojiros. Even my wife can't totally F them up. :) The really good knives like my Masakage Zeros I keep hidden. Wife would be chopping celery on the granite counters with them if they were left out. LOL
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Wow! Masakage. They make incredible knives!
 
Without reference to size, I thought it was a sword!

Beautiful instrument. My knife skills don't justify a tool like that...yet.
 
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