Niwaki Press Masashi Kobo Damascus - kitchen knives
Extraordinarily beautiful kitchen knives from this young blacksmith in Sanjo City, Niigata. Masashi's knives are light, beautifully balanced, and a joy to work with.
Featuring Damascus SLD steel blades, charred chestnut handles and resin ferrules. SLD steel from Hitachi benefits from a high carbon content that holds its edge well, is tough, easy to sharpen and maintain, and with a 12% chromium content is very nearly stainless. It's laminated to an outer cladding of 15-layered Damascus stainless steel, creating a blade of breathtaking beauty.
- Hand forged Damascus SLD steel blades
- 12% chromium content for rust-proofing
- Charred chestnut handles
- 15 layered Damascus jigane cladding
- Double bevelled
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About Niwaki - here at Niwaki we have sourced a select bunch of extrodinary products, possesing a quality that will ensure they quickly become a treasured item. Using our tools and homewares makes every day tasks all that more enjoyable. Jake imported the first tripod ladder from Japan over 10 years ago and since then the range has grown from a comprehensive collection of gardening tools to include homewares, kitchen knives and woodworking tools. All our products are pretty unique, many handmade by skilled craftsman and always of the highest quality.
Jake HobsonTopiary specialist and leading authority on cloud pruning, Jake works worldwide (as well as at home in Dorset) creating his brand of Organic Topiary - a fusion of Japanese cloud pruning and more traditional topiary. A background in sculpture at the Slade in London has married perfectly with a passion and skill for pruning, and a love of landscape. When he is not jetting around some of the world’s most incredible gardens, Jake shares his passion at his pruning workshops and lectures - and he’s found the time to write two books ‘The Art of Creative Pruning’ and ‘Niwaki’.
''The name Niwaki means garden tree. Niwa means garden, Ki means tree and Niwaki would sell the stuff needed to prune the garden trees. So, the name. Hard to pronounce (ni-whacky) and tricky to remember, but we like it because of its implications.''