Gyuto 230mm SanMai Shirogami #1 Full Tang

It’s hard not to love Simon Maillet’s work, minimalist, clean and with a focus on simple yet premium materials, great performance and tidy fit and finish. This blade is one of two full tang knives that Simon recently made for us. The rustic design ticks all the boxes, with a nice weight and balance, a tapered tang and spine, and naturally Simon’s trademark stone ready clean, consistent, flat bevels.

The simple combination of beautiful natural oak and black, durable, carbon fibre is paired with a brushed brute de forge finish above the bevels and lovely clean and hazy Kasumi polish on the bevels. The shimmer of the brushed forge finish is a perfect paring with the lovely blacks and brown hues of the oak handle and matching saya.

Like all of Simon’s work this is a simple, tastefully designed, high performance cutting tool that is a joy to use, stepping aside while you find your happy place in the kitchen.