Seki, Gifu · Japan
Eight knives.
Three steels.
One edge.
A short, deliberate range of Japanese kitchen knives — carbon, stainless and powder — ground thin behind the edge, finished on water stones, and sold with their full specifications attached.
Range8 knives
Steel familiesCarbon · stainless · powder
Hardness ceiling66 HRC
Blue Super
White #2
VG-10
Ginsan
SG2
HAP40
Finished by hand
The range
Eight knives, one standard
Every blade here answers a question a cook actually asks. If a shape does not earn its place on a board, it does not get made.
Every knife ships with its steel, hardness, blade length, height, weight and grind printed on the card.
Steel first
Steel decides almost everything
Two knives can look identical and behave nothing alike, because the core steel under the cladding is doing most of the work.
01
Carbon steel
Blue Super and White #2 cores clad in soft iron. The keenest edges in the range, and the ones that patina.
Carbon knives 02Stainless steel
VG-10 and Ginsan, plain or damascus-clad. Forgiving on a busy board.
Stainless knives 03Powder steel
SG2 and HAP40. High-alloy steels that hold an edge for a very long time.
Powder-steel knivesThe workshop
How a blade gets finished
01
Forge, clad, harden
The core steel is forged, clad, normalised and hardened to its target hardness — nothing harder than the edge can survive a kitchen.
02
Grind and blend
The blade is ground thin behind the edge and blended by hand into the shinogi line, so no machine shoulder is left for a stone to reach.
03
Set the edge
Set on coarse stones and refined on progressively finer ones until it shaves cleanly along its full length. Handles fitted hot and aligned.
Why it cuts
The shoulder is where sharpness goes to die
A machine grind can leave a hard shoulder behind the edge that no stone will ever reach. A knife with a shoulder never feels sharp no matter what the box says. Every Forged Blade knife is blended by hand into the shinogi line — the ridge where the flat meets the bevel — so the bevel is genuinely continuous.
We will not harden a steel past the point where it becomes fragile just to print a higher number on a page.
Quiet, workshop-lit, exact. A short range built around three steel families and one set of standards.
About the workshopBefore you buy
Learn the edge, then choose it
The single most useful decision you can make is not the length or the handle — it is the steel.