Hi I'm Mike, and I work here YanagiKnife and this is Basic Knife Talk.
Today I want to talk to you guys about
the sashimi knife.
It's your Eastern, traditional slicing
knife. You typically slice raw protein
with it like sashimi, or maybe you do
sushi cuts. I want to talk specifically
about limited and rare sashimi knives.
Over here I have Akazawa's sashimi knife.
You can see it has an ebony saya. Now this saya over here has a very intricate and
detailed design. It is handmade and it is
custom made for this specific sashimi
knife. As you can see it comfortably
comes out and very easily goes back in,
making for a perfect fit. This sushi
knife also has an ebony handle. this ebony
handle has a silver bolster and also a
silver ring with a sporadic line design,
which is unique to us. Similarly, I have
another rare and limited knife. Now this
rare and limited knife has a pink saya.
This is also a custom saya that we made
here at YanagiKnife, and it also
has a custom handle also made by us.
Similarly, with a sporadic line design on
a silver bolster with a silver ring on
it. As you can see it also easily and
comfortably comes out and goes back in.
And over here I have Akazawa's sashimi
knife as well. It's rare and limited, the
saya is made out of snake wood, the
design is very fine and intricate, and it's a
really beautiful knife with a really
beautiful saya.
Similarly, the handle is also made out of
snake wood. Again we have a silver
bolster over here with a silver ring.
just want to show it to you guys. You can
check it out. It's also important to note
that each of these knives have blades
that are made by different blacksmiths
depending on which one you get, and each
of these blacksmiths have their own
kind of artistic integrity and their own
idea of what a blade should
look like, so you have very unique blades
on all of these rare and limited knives.
I'll just show you the snake would one
really quick so you can take a look. It's very beautiful, beautifully crafted blade. So
the point of this video is really to
give you introduction on why certain
knives are rare and limited as opposed
to other knives. I hope that you guys
found this video informative. Again this
is Mike here at YanagiKnife with
Basic Knife Talk, and you can follow us
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visit us at YanagiKnife.com. Thank you for watching!
