Name: Hotaru Kiritsuke Chef Knife
Brand: Akito Knives
Price: 114.95 USD
Availability: InStock

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Flat of edge and sharp of angle. The K-tip chef-slicer profile takes proteins in single pulls and dices vegetables with quiet precision. Forged and finished in Seki, Japan.

Features

Its angled nose turns down into a fine working point for vertical cuts and julienne.
Made for the long stroke: one draw takes a fillet or a roast face to a polish.
The low, level edge finishes every stroke square against the board.
Inside the Damascus sits a VG-10 heart brought to 60 ±2 on the Rockwell scale: keen out of the box, slow to dull.
Folded 67 times around the center steel, the suminagashi jacket wears a current-of-water pattern.
It weighs in near 7 oz, so a half hour at the board leaves the wrist fresh.

Stabilized burl set in resin, an octagonal wa grip with small fires in its figure.

Covered for life against manufacturing defects, with 30-day returns. Ships free from our US warehouse with fast delivery.

I'm glad to offer FREE shipping anywhere in the U.S.

Every order is packed with care and sent straight to your door, so your blade arrives ready for the kitchen.

Once it is on its way, I will send a tracking number so you can follow it the whole way home.

Every knife that leaves here, I want you to truly love. If yours isn't right for any reason, send it back within 30 days and I'll refund you. That has always been my promise.

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I didn't grow up in a forge. I grew up watching my grandfather sharpen the same three knives for forty years, and wondering why he never seemed to need a fourth. That question eventually took me to Sakai, Japan, where blacksmiths have shaped steel for over six hundred years. I spent three years there learning one simple thing: a blade isn't finished when it's sharp, it's finished when it disappears in your hand. That's what I set out to build with Akito.

Every Akito knife is still hand-finished in small batches, tested by hand before it ever ships. I'm not chasing scale, I'm chasing the feeling of that first cut. This is the founding collection, made the way I was taught it should be made — and I'd genuinely love for it to be in your kitchen.

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