All About Pocket Knives

.....with something a bit different. These are steak knife sets from the the Japan Sword Co. of Hakusui Inami. The quality of these pieces has to be seen to be believed.
The first set is one that features black lacquered wood inserts for handles.
The second set has smooth metal handles that are one piece with the blade.
The last set has metal handles with a hammered finish;also one piece with the blade.
Hope you enjoy them.

I like all 3 set, but I prefer the "Hammered finish" set.
I can invision cutting into a juicy steak as I write .

knife7knut wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 2:11 am .....with something a bit different. These are steak knife sets from the the Japan Sword Co. of Hakusui Inami. The quality of these pieces has to be seen to be believed.
The first set is one that features black lacquered wood inserts for handles.
The second set has smooth metal handles that are one piece with the blade.
The last set has metal handles with a hammered finish;also one piece with the blade.
Hope you enjoy them.

Elegant, simply elegant. I have never seen Japanese steak knives like these. I have a lot, LOT of Japanese knives and troll the Japanese knife and chef knife websites frequently. I wonder how long ago these were made?

Those hammered finishes are beyond cool.

Sharpnshinyknives wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 8:18 pm

knife7knut wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 2:11 am .....with something a bit different. These are steak knife sets from the the Japan Sword Co. of Hakusui Inami. The quality of these pieces has to be seen to be believed.
The first set is one that features black lacquered wood inserts for handles.
The second set has smooth metal handles that are one piece with the blade.
The last set has metal handles with a hammered finish;also one piece with the blade.
Hope you enjoy them.

Elegant, simply elegant. I have never seen Japanese steak knives like these. I have a lot, LOT of Japanese knives and troll the Japanese knife and chef knife websites frequently. I wonder how long ago these were made?

I'm not sure but I have owned them for about 30 years.The hammered set came is a wood box with the description card and a polishing cloth. The plain handled ones came in a black lacquered wood box that has a leather covering top and bottom and each knife has a small felt bag to cover the handle when not in use.Sadly one knife was missing from the set.I think this set was the oldest.
The ones with the wood inserts in the handles I think are the most recent and if I had to guess I would say they probably were made in the 1950's to the 1960's.

knife7knut wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 11:22 pm

Sharpnshinyknives wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 8:18 pm

knife7knut wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 2:11 am .....with something a bit different. These are steak knife sets from the the Japan Sword Co. of Hakusui Inami. The quality of these pieces has to be seen to be believed.
The first set is one that features black lacquered wood inserts for handles.
The second set has smooth metal handles that are one piece with the blade.
The last set has metal handles with a hammered finish;also one piece with the blade.
Hope you enjoy them.

Elegant, simply elegant. I have never seen Japanese steak knives like these. I have a lot, LOT of Japanese knives and troll the Japanese knife and chef knife websites frequently. I wonder how long ago these were made?

I'm not sure but I have owned them for about 30 years.The hammered set came is a wood box with the description card and a polishing cloth. The plain handled ones came in a black lacquered wood box that has a leather covering top and bottom and each knife has a small felt bag to cover the handle when not in use.Sadly one knife was missing from the set.I think this set was the oldest.
The ones with the wood inserts in the handles I think are the most recent and if I had to guess I would say they probably were made in the 1950's to the 1960's.

That explains why I haven’t seen them before. That hammered texture is call “Tsuchime”. Japanesechefsknives has a line of chef knives called ‘’Gekko” which means “moonlight” that has this same Tsuchime on the top half of the blade. Just beautiful. I bought my kids one of these last year for Christmas. One of my favorites.

Those are neato' . Never seen steak knives styled like that. Might need to pick me self up a set in the future ….

Getting my kids the paring knife version this year. This series of knives is called “Gekko” meaning moonlight. It’s a Tsuchime finish on the 15 layer Damascus blade. Has a VG-10 core. For the money you cannot beat these Japanese chef knives. These knives are on sale now at JCK, up to 30% off the regular prices. And no I don’t sell for this company, just love the products.
Included is a picture of the chef knife I bought last year for the kids. Same series. And the handles are Mahogany. Beautiful.
Edit, I put a close up of the paring and didn’t get the 7” chef, added that.