Forged in Tosa, Japan. These rustic handmade knives use the oldest techniques to be forged and they are a great starting point for anyone wanting to get into knives.
Those Tsukasa knives are forged with top quality Hitachi made Shirogami #1 (White Steel #1), which is a pure carbon steel with a high carbon content, making for an easy to sharpen knife that has great edge life too.
They are handled with really nice octagon shaped oak wood handles.
Details:
Blade Material: Shirogami #1 carbon steel with soft iron cladding
Handle Material: Oak wood
Blade Length: 135mm
Overall Length: 270mm
Height at Heel: 30mm
Thickness of Spine at Heel: 2.4mm
Weight: 90grs