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Niwaki Christmas Posting: LAST ORDERS
UK: order by end of Friday 19th December for recorded delivery
Europe: order by Thursday 14th December for Airmail
USA/Canada: order by Tuesday 9th December for Airmail
Rest of the World: order by Thursday 4th December for Airmail

These are Royal Mail dates. We post the orders the next day, and cannot guarantee ANY delivery over Christmas.

Click here for ryoba woodworking saws, folding knives and nigiribasami

Traditional design, folded steel, wooden handles...remarkably light, and lethally sharp*. The carbon steel is not stainless, and will rust and stain if not cleaned and dried properly, but interestingly it turns out that rust (in small doses) is actually quite good for you- it's iron, after all. For anyone interested, there are lots more available: big heavy choppers, long thin sashimi slicers, even noodle cutting knives. Home made soba anyone?

*Please be careful. We take absolutely no responsibility for accidents in the kitchen (or anywhere else, for that matter.)


Care and cleaning: before using for the first time, wash with warm water and a small amount of washing up liquid (hand wash only). Dry thoroughly, protect with a fine coat of Camellia oil, and store individually (the blades are very thin, and can chip if handled badly.) Use wooden chopping boards, and take care not to cut through food into the board too hard. It all sounds a bit of a bore, but these knives are such a joy to use it is well worth the small effort.
Keep them sharp! A blunt Japanese knife is no better than any other blunt knife. Our trusty Swiss Istor sharpeners work well, but so do wet stones and most other techniques. Tadafusa, the maker, suggests sharpening every 2 weeks or so.

santoku
tadafusa
ajikiri

Santoku

5 1/2" blade: $35.00

6 1/2" blade: $46.00

Nashi Santoku
6 1/2" blade

$73.00

Ajikiri
3 1/2" blade

$28.00

Western Santoku
6 1/2" blade

$98.00

 

Santoku

Great all rounder, for meat and veg. Japanese housewives' knife of choice! 6 1/2" blade, bevelled on both sides.
Quite large, but remarkably light. Magnolia handle.

Nashi Santoku

The best of both worlds: carbon wrapped in an outer layer of stainless steel. The stainless protects, but the cutting edge is the sharper carbon steel. The nashi (Japanese pear) design refers to the finish: in true Japanese spirit the rough marks of the hammer are left, to show the hand of the maker. Handle of Magnolia obovata and Cercidiphyllum japonicum (darker wood.)

Ajikiri

For mincing and fine chopping, and especially good for filleting small fish, if that's what you're into. 3 1/2" blade, bevelled on one side only. Magnolia handle.

 

Large Santoku and Ajikiri set: $62.00

 

folding knife
ryoba
nigiribasami


Folding knife $22.00


Ryoba $73.00

 

Nigiribasami $22.00

 

 

Traditional folding knife from Miyamoto Musashi, brass handle, 3" folded steel blade.
No locking device, no corkscrew, not even tweezers...whatever next? A great stocking filler.

Ryoba saw. Double sided carpenter's saw. 9 1/2" of akagane steel, with finer teeth on one side for cross cutting, and bigger teeth
on the other for ripping. Like all Japanese saws, the cutting is all done on the pull. Traditional handle wrapped in bamboo. Once you've tried Japanese saws for woodworking, you'll never look back.

Traditional Nigiribasami snips. Ever eaten an onigiri? (rice balls, sometimes wrapped in seaweed, normally with something inside, like
some salmon.) Well, an onigiri is so called beacuse it's squeezed into shape in the palm of your hand, and these little snips are so called because...you squeeze them in the palm of your hand. Nigiri=to squeeze.
Bonsai folk use these for ultra small-scale pruning, but actually they're designed for sewing work; cutting and unpicking thread.
Real little beauties. 1 1/2" blades, total length just over 4"