Name: Sazanami Gyuto Chef Knife
Brand: Akito Knives
Price: 129.95 USD
Availability: InStock

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One knife carries the week. Gyuto translates as the cook's blade, and this one earns it across proteins, produce, and every pile of herbs between. Forged and finished in Seki, Japan.

Features

Mid-blade curve lets the edge roll through a bunch of parsley without bruising a leaf.
Behind the curve, the heel runs deep and straight, chopping onion halves clean to the board.
Up front, a slim point slips under silverskin and handles close trim work.
The core steel is VG-10, heat-treated until the Rockwell tester reads 60 ±2, which keeps sharpening sessions rare.
The 67 Damascus layers surface as a flowing grain that no two blades repeat.
Call it 7 oz of working weight: present in the hand, never tiring.

An octagonal wa grip inlaid with real abalone shimmers like light on water.

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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