Tsunehisa Kawahagi 90mm Aogami 2

Tsunehisa knives come from various blacksmiths and factories from around Japan. They make many different style blades made from a range of steels. Great performing and affordable knives.

Aogami, also known as Blue paper steel due to the colour of the paper it came wrapped in, is a high carbon steel made by Hitachi Metals. Aogami is known for its sharpness and edge retention, blue paper steels are considered some of the best carbon steels in the world. It’s like Shirogami but with added tungsten and chromium to give it better edge retention, it comes in 3 grades Aogami #1, #2 & Aogami Super.

The Kawahagi is a skinning knife. Generally used to skin wild boar in Japan it its also a handy knife in the kitchen. The pointer finger can be positioned forward on the knife to give fine control when butchering or doing delicate work.

This knife is made from carbon steel and will form rust if it is left wet after use.