Gohumanosuke Yoshihiro Gin-San Deba

This Gohumanosuke Yoshiro Deba has a Japanese White Oak octagon handle with a Water Buffalo horn bolster affixed and a matching White Oak Saya cover. Designed for butchering whole fish, its thick spine, heft and broad profile allows the user to cut through fish bone easily.Gin-san, also known as Ginsanko is a high performing stainless steel. Yoshihiro master blade-smiths use traditional forging methods mixed with modern techniques and strengthening elements of Carbon, Chromium, Manganese, Phosphorus, Sulfur and Silicon. The result is a knife that sharpens with ease and holds its edge. Extremely user friendly, Gin-San is a popular blade choice for single-bevel knives among all ranks of chefs.

• Material: Gin-San Stainless Steel
• Forging Construction: Kasumiyaki 
• Size: 21cm/8.26, 18cm/7.08 inch
• Bolster Material: Water Buffalo horn
• Rockwell Hardness Scale: HRC 60
• Knife Type: Deba
• Stainless: Yes
• Handle: Japanese, White Oak Octagon, Hidden Tang 
• Wood Saya Cover: Included
• Edge Angle: Japanese, Single-Bevel
• Origin: Yamawaki Manufacturing, Sakai, Japan