Miyazaki Ginsan Damascus Tsubaki 180mm EN

Haruki Miyazaki-san is a 35-year-old blacksmith from the Goto Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture. He decided to become a blacksmith and apprentice under Ooba-san in Fukuoka.

After 5 years of apprenticeship, he learned all the basic blacksmithing skills and returned to his home island, where he opened his own workshop. He continued to travel throughout Japan, learning and mastering new skills from other blacksmiths and cutlers during his travels.

Miyazaki works alone in his small forge, doing everything by hand. All of its knives are hand laminated, heat treated with pine charcoal and water tempered.

Brand: Tsubaki

blacksmith: Haruki Miyazaki

finish: hammered damascus

steel: Ginsan

hardness: 62 HRC

Type: Tsubaki

blade length: 18 cm

blade height: 4.96 cm

heel thickness: 2.6 cm

thickness at the tip: 0.5 cm

weight: 173 gr

Finally, the handle is made with a dyed and stabilized amboyna burl, brass spacers and blond buffalo horn ferrule ans bottom cap.

Made with a Hon-warikomi structure, with a Ginsan steel core and a stainless steel cladding. The latter, laminated by hand to obtain a pretty damascus pattern. Due to its composition, Ginsan steel is an excellent compromise between high carbon steel and resistance to oxidation. It can obtain and maintain an excellent sharpness while remaining easy to maintain.