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