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Baishinshi Kunimitsu Shirahiki 15 mm
Baishinshi Kunimitsu Shirahiki 15 mm
These small Japanese planers are perfect for woodworking and Jinmes for the grafting of Bonsai. they can serve as a hand tool or as a hand-shovel. The blades are razor sharp and made from traditional Japanese steel. This type of knife is widely used in Japan by furniture makers. This knife has a core of Japanese Shirogami #2 White paper carbon steel. Equipped with a layer of softer iron for protection (Sanmai forged), this knife is single-sided sharpened so that this blade has an even finer cut. This knife was manually forged and sharpened in the small Baishinshi smithy (梅心子 國 光) in Sanjo. This family has been working for over 250 years forging Japanese knives and tools, the current smith is Umeda Kunimitsu (7th generation).
- Blade width: 15 mm
- Total length: 160 mm
- Weight: 36 grams
- Thickness 2.0 mm
- Steel type: core steel: Japanese Shirogami # 2 steel (non-stainless) with 2 layers of iron (blade is single-sided)
- The back of the blade is hollow ground
- Hardness: 63-64 (Rockwell C)
