Hokiyama Deba AUS-8 150mm (5.9″) Original
Original price was: $200.00.$80.00Current price is: $80.00.
Hokiyama Deba AUS-8 in 150mm (5.9″) blade length is a heavy traditional Japanese knife for rougher tasks, intended for filleting fish and poultry. It’s a single bevel knife, which means only right-handed users can wield it. A heavy knife, a proud member of the traditional Japanese trio (along with yanagiba and usuba knives).
The knife has a minimalistic polished blade and is fitted with a traditional Japanese (Wa) handle made of of dense, durable wenge wood with a darker plastic ferrule. There is a slight step between the ferrule and the handle, which might bother some users.
The blade consists of 2 layers of steel – the harder steel AUS-8 (60 HRC) and a layer of softer stainless steel are forge welded together in what is known as “nimai” construction. AUS-8 steel is a popular Japanese steel from the Aichi steelworks that is incredibly resistant to rust, yet simple to sharpen. The steel contains high amounts of carbon (0.7-0.75%) and is also high in vanadium (0.10-0.26%) and molybdenum (0.10-0.30%). It also has a high percentage of chromium (14.5%), making the blade corrosion-resistant and increasing the hardness, durability and the tensile strength of steel mix.
This carefully balanced composition does not only endow the blade with exceptional hardness (60 HRC) but also good wear and tear and rust-resistance properties.
