Tokushu SLD 150mm Tsuchime Honesuki

Love this honesuki knife so much, looks great and has a lot character. I work with a lot of poltry and it made my life so much easier.

The level of finish on this knife is outstanding and marvellous value!
The edge out to the box was exceptional, I have enjoyed using it for more robust prep work! Couldn’t be happier.
Look forward to buying again from this store.

Very sharp out of the box. I love using this knife to break down and trim proteins. Don’t hesitate to buy!

I bought this as my first knife. I wanted to get started but didn’t want to go for a $3-500 knife yet. I was blown away by how sharp and easily this cut apart a chicken. I feel like I’ve been using dull knives my whole life.

Great knife wonderful sevice

I’ve been wanting to purchase a Honesuki for awhile now. A wide variety of choices accompany the wide variety of prices.
I contacted Zach at Tokushu and explained my need and asked for his opinion.
Without hesitation he recommended the SLD.
I already owned a 240 Gyuto, and I love the knife.
Fast shipping brought it to me in a short period of time. Perfect weight and quality right ootb. It’s wicked sharp and cuts through a bird like it was made from butter.

I got this knife to run butcher and breakdown proteins. I enjoyed the fact it was semi stainless so I wasn’t gonna have to do lots of cleaning maintenance and drying as whole. Don’t let it’s size fool you this guy is a beast. It has a nice hammer marking tschuime and handle is a nice feel and fits the price point. I don’t often go super crazy with knives that are solely for raw fabrication. OOTB edge was a solid 8.8/10. While I knew it could get sharper I wanted to see how the edge retention was . In 6 weeks it has broken down over 700 pounds of filet tenderloins, frenched over 40 Tomahawks ribeye bones. Performed small line task. Last but not least this little guy broke down 2 red stag and 4 axis before I dulled it to a point that daily stropping wasn’t gonna help and the edge bush from brushing on large bones needed to be addressed. After 4 shifts of cutting and the Frenching 10 tomahawks it needed daily strop with 1 micron paste. And until the 6 full carcasses was holding on strong. It could if benefited from a sharpening but again goal was edge retention.
I pulled the atoma and ground down the edge push . Nano hone 200 got a little bit of thinning going to reset some geometry . Nano 400 reset bevel , cerax and rika 5k was the progression. Stropping on hard leather had me pushing through napkins again. It feels sharper than day one and has held a decent edge thus far. I would happily buy this again especially for a knife you want to run through the ringer