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Above: Santoku style kitchen knife with western style standard handle. 7 inches long, 2.5 inches wide and 1/16th inch thick. The word Santoku has Japanese historical significance meaning 'three virtues', and a Santoku knife wears its name quite proudly, with its marvelous chopping, dicing and mincing abilities. Typically, a Santoku knife ranges in sizes from 5" to 7" in blade lengths but I make them 8", 9" and 10 ".
 The handle has a Rose Wood. It can also comes in an Asian style, see an example below.

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Top : 8"  2.5" extra fancy kitchen knife
Bottom: 1.25" x 5" extra fancy kitchen knife
Above: highly figured Claro Walnut wood on the handle bottom, then brass sheet, then
stabilized black dyed recycled Redwood burl, white/black spacers and brass bolsters.
Handle is 5.25" long, steel is high carbon tool steel, with brass 1/8" pins and a company chop in the handle.
 

Below: Top is 8" x 2.5" kitchen knife with extra fancy handle and 1" x 4" kitchen knife
Top piece handle has Claro Walnut with double chops, 1/8" thick brass spacer, green dyed stabilized California Buckeye
then 1/8" black white spacers, and then a brass bolster with hidden brass rivets.

Bottom has a quilted Hard Rock Maple handle with black/white spacers.
Upgrades have been high speed polished with two grades of wax buff.


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Below: a set of kitchen knives. Steel is 1084 1/16th" thick high carbon tool steel.
top: is 8" x 2.5" kitchen knife with double brass bolsters and double 1/4" decorated rivets. The
handle is burled Claro walnut with wax finish, western style handle.
bottom: 3" traditional Paring knife with walnut handle.

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 Below: 7" Santoku with standard Asian style handle, with Rose Wood.

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Above: Standard Asian inspired handle .
This cost of this style handle is inclusive in standard handle choice .
Left photo handle wood is Stabilized Amboyna, and right is Myrtle Wood
 

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Above : 7" Santoku with Myrtle wood with standard western style handle. Orange oil finish.
 

Fancy standard western style handle, with stabilized Box Elder Burl wood with two 1/8" black and white spacers ~ brass/white/black/ handle wood.

  Below- three spacers, 1/8" thick with Claro Walnut

                                   
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Above: green dyed stabilized Buckeye burl wood with B/R/B 1/8" spacers
 

Above : Double Brass Bolsters with a high French polish on . If you want your knives to have double brass just order them as a normal order , and e-mail me of your wish . Cost for double brass is $35 extra per knife .