It’s basically a Japanese paring knife, but a little bigger. Santoku knives may be the most common style of Japanese knife to make headway in western kitchens. This style of knife is as ...

Japanese-style knives are usually lighter with a thinner blade and straighter edge, ideal when you’re after extreme precision. To make the landscape more complicated, some Japanese companies ...

Japanese sword making is a tradition that goes back centuries, and one that's carried on to this day. Each sword take dedication, skill and can take over 18 months to create. The resulting blades ...

This process helps restore the blade's performance and ensures smoother, more precise cuts. However, honing steel should not ...

Heavier weight knives may seem counterintuitive at first to those who've never handled them, but it's their relative weight that does the cutting for you. Lighter weight, Japanese-style knives ...

However, one of Kansept’s new EDC releases, the Orion, has a unique blade design typically found only in Japanese kitchen cutlery. This makes me wonder if these two knife categories shouldn’t share ...

Generally knives are split into two camps – Japanese style and western style – that define certain characteristics. Japanese knives are recognisable by their handles (usually wooden with a ...

Continuing the Japanese theme, this brand has a very interesting ... but that's because it isn't. This cleaver-style blade with its curved cutting edge is ideal for getting through tough root ...