Shizu Hamono Steak Knife

Shizu Hamono Co. Ltd is located in Seki, Japan and produces this beautiful steak knife. The Steak Knife can also be paired with a gift-boxed matching Fork, or as a set of four in an elegant Paulownia gift box.

Each knife has 33 layers of Damascus steel with a high quality VG-10 stainless steel core that resembles that of a katana (Japanese sword) and is incredibly sharp.

The blade length is 125mm with a total length of 265mm including the handle.  Each knife weight 70g as the metal is embedded inside the handle to adjust to be the optimum weight balance.

Contents: One Steak Knife in a gift-box. 

Exclusive to Setamono we are proud to offer these steak knives to our clients in South Africa and the African continent.

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Knives in SEKI have been special since they follow in the footsteps of the first craftsman back 780 years ago.

Hisashi Horibe the 3rd president of Shizu Hamono.

His father found Shizu Hamono in Seki-city in 1959. Seki-city in Gifu prefecture locates in center of Japan and the city is known for producing Japanese swords and knives since Japanese sword smith stated producing Japanese swords 800 years ago.

Hisashi started his carrier in his father's factory after graduating from a school. His father was a polishing craftsman so he spend a lot of time in the production and learnt skills from craftsmen. Because of this experience, he and Shizu Hamono deliver superb kitchen knives made by good skills.

Hisashi is 66 years old and still sits in a factory every day. He can perform varieties of techniques and his daily routine is straightening knife blades and checking sharpness of all knives.  The appropriate amount of power to straighten blade is very close to the amount of power which easily breaks the blade.