ZDP-189 Damascus Gyuto onion and carrot chopping

[Algonkin1964]

Nicely done!

[peeweesherman]

56 chops to get through that last part of the carrot, BTW sick blade.

[js12347777]

whats the name of the maker please?

[soulfly7112000]

hehe, looks like about 1/2 through the onion f-ing gave up...

[BlueJudySuite]

nice knife. reminds me that I need to get my global sharpened lol

[XEXLAB]

bazzmeg,, hogy a faszba tanulják ezt meg az emberek? mindig fosok hogy bele vágok a kezembe egyébként ez milyen kés???????

[aeg1000]

Nice knife and technique. What is the length of that gyuto?

[Saltydog55252]

nice. stop by some time.

[tastygarlic]

I love the radius on the leading three inches from the tip... German-style Chef's knives have a little too much radius and I can't find a good French-style Chef's knife - This may be my next buy on cutlery. Something between a Chef's Knife and a Santoku...

[Perseusishere]

can you not resharpen the edge with a loaded strop? It would take time but you would get a good edge. I find my spyderco sharpmaker is good for most steels or I also have a DMT stone and guide set which is good.

[hunspikey]

of course you can- it is only a question of time. This knife needs to spend about twice or maybe 3 times more on the stone /strop to form the edge because it is made of harder material. But if you can hold the angle and do the sets nice and same every time then you will have an unparalelled edge!

[z0r3]

where did you get that knife?

I've found it's really hard to get a hold on ZDP-189 gyutos :(

[hunspikey]

go to JCK's website and contact Koki Iwahara about it- maybe he can arrange something.

[morati1963]

Beautiful SHARP blade! Nice technique....

ZDP-189 is AWESOME steel!

[hunspikey]

Thank you for the nice words, the knife is indeed very good- but it is also a major pain in the ass when it comes to sharpening- due to its extreme hardness (66 HRc). Lucky me it can hold its edge many times (I estimate around 5-7x) longer than my VG10 knives. Oh and i can make its edge a lot sharper compared to what the VG10 blades can take.

[MisterBaz1]

Zdp-189 is capable of 67RC, but JCK tempers back all their zdp nives to 62-63RC.

Shun's SG2 is kept at 64-65RC, but must be clad in 410.

Very nice knife.