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In the past, people didn't care much about materials. They distinguished just carbon steel or stainless mostly. Now there are many materials especially stainless steel and many information on the...

Price difference comes from size, materials and humanity factors. If robots use knives, humanity factors are no meaning. We are human. Humanity factors are biggest reason to increase the value and price....

There are many kinds of combination for knife structure. Speciality of Sanjo Blacksmiths is 3 layered knife. Core layer is hard material. It makes an edge. The edge touched the...

Customers often bring their knives and ask me "Is this knife fake?" They worry if they are real or fake Japanese knives.  At first, there is no definitions of Japanese...

Damascus is popular word in knife industry. But the definition is not clear. Original mean might be the name of capital of Syria. Some people think Damascus is the kind...

How do you decide the sharpening angle? This was the first question when I started learning sharpening. Many of my customers asked me same. I checked tons of same question on...

I recommend 3 layered, stainless covered knife. It has the cutting taste of carbon steel and you don't need to worry much about rust. Core is carbon steel. Sides are...

Rust, oxidation, is the unique characteristic of our knives. The surface of our knives will be oxidized by some reasons. Oxidation changes the color of the surface.   This oxidization can...