Knifes

[allyally]

hi guys i was after your advice i recently bought tojiro senkou knifes and was very dissapointed in the as my veetable knife blade started to chip away when using knife correctly.Anyway sent them back and got refund now am looking for advice on my new knifes(which should i buy)?

I was thinking bout hattori HD or Ryusen "Blazen" Does anyone have these if so are they good and which is the better of the two?

Any other sugeestions would be grate i dont however like tojiro,shun or global

Thanks

[powers]

You cannot go wrong with Hattorri!!!! I'm not sure about the other, but I have several hattorri knives and am extremely pleased. I would have to get a second mortgage on the house, but would love to have ALL hattorri. Good luck, there's always Cutco, I hear their knives won't chip

[piracer]

seems u really like the japanese knives yes?

well, how about kasumi? its got the japanese blade but a german handle. thats the only way i can describe it. very sharp, high quality, etc etc.

[johnarmr]

japanese knives are thinner than german so if yo are used to using a german knife and use ajapnese knife in a similar manner you will get chipping. the hattori and blazen are very similar actually ryusen makes the hd series for hattori. japanes knives are very capable of western cusine it just takes a little adjustment with the edge angles to to be able to abuse them like a german knife. The steel in a japanese knife is much much harder so it is more brittle than a german knife, a wustof or henkels will bend and deform which can be re shaped with a steel but a japanese knife will not bend it will break.

[expertsharpener]

hi

if you are still looking then you have to decide between sharpness (hardness) and toughness.

the hattori is the same central core steel as the tojiro senkou - VG10 from Takefu Special Steel; the Blazen is a powder steel from Hitachi S S - so less likely to chip and capable of higher sharpness its made by Ryusen who also make the Hattori.

Alternative is to get a powder steel blade that uses either a Daido or Kiobe Steel -they have the capacity for higher levels of toughness