Whether you want a Japanese stainless-steel knife that can make razor-thin cuts or an everyday workhorse with a colorful ...

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 ...

These are generally heavier with a thicker, more curved blade to facilitate rocking back and forth with the tip down on your cutting board. On the other hand, Japanese-style tend to be lighter ...

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 ...