Yoshimi Kato AS Kurouchi Damascus Western Gyuto 210mm Handle:Stabilized Maple Originally designed for professional sharpeners

Originally designed for professional sharpeners who required superior accuracy and trueness from their stones

We have asked Yoshikazu Tanaka to forge the blades and Ajioka san to sharpen

It is for filleting fish and butchery with boneless meat and cutting half frozen food

Knifewear stones will live up to their reputation

Yoshimi Kato AS Kurouchi Damascus Western Gyuto 210mm Handle:Stabilized Maple Originally designed for professional sharpenersAbout Yoshimi Kato Second careers are often the best. I know of a burned out chef, for example, who owns a few knife shops now. Then there's Yoshimi Kato, who left his job as the project manager of a construction company to become a blacksmith after marrying Hiroshi Kato's daughter. Normally, it takes apprentices some 10 15 years to become pros, but Kato san did it in just 5 years, and is now running the show. He forges most of the Masakage Kiri,