Tosa · K006
Hatsukokoro (Kumokage) Petty
The 150 mm Kumokage pairs Muneishi’s Blue #2 core and patterned iron cladding with a slender utility profile. It offers more slicing room than the 80 mm petty while keeping a narrow point for trimming.
Materials and geometry
- Steel
- Blue #2
- Cladding
- Layered soft-iron Damascus over Blue #2
- Finish
- Kurouchi upper face and patterned Damascus lower bevel
- Grind
- Wide bevel with a shoulder and approximately straight lower faces
- Handle
- Octagonal wood wa handle (wenge and buffalo horn on the photographed model)
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