165mm santoku made by Sanetu. Softer stainless steel cladding over a ZDP-189 core; it boasts some crazy numbers, 3% carbon and 20% chromium powdered steel hardened to HRC 64-66. ZDP-189 is more or less identical in composition to the Crowy-X used in Hattori KDs. Fitted with nice cocobolo scales and a solid stainless steel bolster.
It’s my first santoku, and I was hasten about using such a short knife. And I’m not wrong about my foresight, my personal preference is still to over-9” blades as a main go to knife.
But having said that I’ve only used it once, not tried to sharpen it the tough ZDP-189 core; I will say it I like the cocobolo scales which is so much nicer than the resin-impregnated staminawood and pakkawood scales usually installed on Japanese knives. This has become my first collector’s knife, may or may not use it in the future.
I paid USD$146.70 for it during JCK’s annual X’Mas sale, they sell at $163; a 180mm KD santoku while being a very different knife compared to the Sanetu, sells for $940 (as of 24SEP08).
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