Kyohei Shindo | Santoku 165mm | Aogami 2 | Cherry Nakiri Shirogami #2 (Carbon)1

Shirogami #2 (Carbon)1

Nao Yamamoto apprenticed at age 18 at Asia Hamono in Echizen

AUS8 has a lower carbon

It’s like Shirogami but with added tungsten and chromium to give it better edge retention

Fukui Prefecture

Kyohei Shindo | Santoku 165mm | Aogami 2 | Cherry Nakiri Shirogami #2 (Carbon)1Kyohei Shindo is a young blacksmith working out of Tosa City, Kochi Prefecture, but originally from Hokkaido. He always wanted to be a craftsman and moved to Tosa to train as a blacksmith. After many hard years he gained the skills and opened his own workshop in 2020. His knives are very light with thin grinds. Santoku Santoku translates to 3 virtues, good for fish, meat and vegetables. Though they are a taller knife, which makes control a little