Ships From Usa Kouhei-shinmatsu Zdp-189 Petty Silver 135mm (5.3") - Limited Release [r3wf2lYH]

Ships From Usa Kouhei-shinmatsu Zdp-189 Petty Silver 135mm (5.3") - Limited Release [r3wf2lYH] comes as the culmination of a decade’s worth of expertise gained through selling and working with knives on our part, and the knowledge and mastery of Japanese knife forging, passed on through generations within the Suncraft smithy.

Due to our continued and successful collaboration with Suncraft, we decided to honor the founders of the smithy by naming this line of knives after them: Kouhei (耕平) Kawashima, who started Suncraft more than 70 years ago, and his father, Shinmatsu (新松).

A petty knife is an essential piece of any knife collection, filling in when bigger, longer knives can be a bit awkward to use. This particular petty is a bit on the thicker side, so it will complement the thin Kouhei-Shinmatsu ZDP-189 Bunka very nicely. Aside from excelling at usual tasks, such as peeling, paring and other in-hand cutting, you can use it for some heavier work as well. Light butchering, poultry deboning and fish filleting are completely within its reach (