Yanick Puig is a blacksmith located in La Salvetat-Peyralès, France. Yanick has been working on his craft for over 20 years with a focus on kitchen cutlery. His steel of choice is 135Cr3, a high carbon tool steel that has very good sharpness and wear resistance. This blade is cladded in high quality old stock iron and kasumi finished on a progression of Japanese natural stones. The grain in the iron is superb with tons of detail to be seen. The top side of the blade is a very clean kurouchi finish. Yanicks knives have a nice weight to them and stiff spine, making them very confident and precise tools. Fit and finish is excellent with polished spine and choil. The blade is fitted with an octagonal African Rosewood and bog oak spacer handle.
Edge Length: 245mm
Height at heel: 58mm
Spine thickness above heel: 4.7mm
Weight: 220g