Shun Elite 10" Chef

[designdog]

It was bound to happen. My irascible buying spree has come to the attention of my wife, who is now counting handles. Avast! Time to single up all the lines and make way!

Here we have a very nice Shun Elite 10" (254mm for those inclined) Chef's knife - a delightful synthesis of Eastern knife technolgy and Western knife shape:


Very nice traditional style handle. Very practical rocker style blade shape. All in a powdered steel package with an interesting matte Suminagashi, and extremely sharp.

Purchased form Sur la Table in January for $236 http://www.surlatable.com/product/co...ife%2C+8%22.do. This knife is barely used, never sharpened, sans scratches, and like new. Yours for $180, Paypal only, shipped at my expense CONUS.

-ddog

[TheNoodleIncident]

Question - regarding knives with the damascus pattern (sorry if I've used the term wrong), do years of sharpening eventually wear the knife down to the point where you are eating into the patterned portion? If so, does this affect performance?

[designdog]

Someone more knowledgeable will have to answer this, but my guess is that it has no impact on knife performance, other than diminishing the rust protection for those carbon knives, unlike the Shun Elite.

If I were to sharpen this puppy, I would affix blue painter's tape to it, in any case. Too purty to screw up!

-ddog

[heyhung]

Come on... you REALLY would rather sell that new Aritsugu Wa-Gyuto that you complain about so much...

I'll be lurking...

Oh, and as far as I'm familiar with the damascus pattern, if you sharpen as regularly as we do, you'll eventually get up to the pattern, but that's only cladding on top of the harder metal, so performance-wise, you won't even notice (unless you sharpened it wrong). You'll just have to get used to a knife that "has character".

[designdog]

This bad boy has been SOLD!

-ddog

[chazmtb]

Man, I leave the computer for a couple of hours and someone bought my knife. Good buy for someone.