Product Description
Long for an ajikiri, inexpensive for a hand-forged Japanese knife.
The ajikiri-bocho is ostensibly for small fish - "aji da!" if you want to be fish-fan Japanese, "Oh my goodness Trachurus japonicus" if you wish to be more scientific.
The idea is for a deft, sharp, wristy blade for filleting and de-scuting horse mackerel. That's all very well but you and I well know that a sharp knife is a sharp knife and there's no shortage of general kitchen tasks a five-inch knife with this profile knife won't manage. In this case at an oh-look-at-that kind of price.
Blade steel: | YSS Shirogami #1 | nantetsu |
Bevel: | Ryōba double bevel |
Blade construction: | Sanmai |
Left-handed available: | Handle and blade suit both hands |
Handle: | Hounoki (magnolia) |
Ferrule: | Plastic |
Blade length: | 150mm |
Overall Length: | 285mm |
Blade height: | 46mm |
Blade spine: | 2mm |
Handle length: | 123mm |
Weight in hand: | 95g |