Tsunehisa ZA18 Gyuto

Description

I met Shibata-san on my 3rd visit to Japan. His video on the Tinker Tank is the first video I watched about Japanese knives from a Japanese craftsman. He's one of the reasons I started down the Japanese Chef Knife rabbit hole. Meeting him and his team was such a pleasant experience all around and it was worth the extra effort to get to his shop. ZA18 is a stainless steel that has some cobalt added to it to help with the hardness and edge retention.