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The Honesuki is a traditional Japanese boning knife, designed primarily for breaking down poultry and working around joints. Its distinctive triangular blade and pointed tip make it particularly useful for separating meat from bone, trimming connective tissue and carrying out precise butchery tasks.
At 150mm, this Tsunehisa Honesuki offers excellent control for detailed work, making it a useful addition to the kitchen for anyone who regularly prepares poultry or other boneless cuts of meat.
The blade features a Damascus Tsuchime finish, combining the flowing layered patterns of Damascus steel with a distinctive hammered texture. The combination gives the knife a striking appearance while retaining the practical shape of a traditional Honesuki.
The knife is finished with a brown pakkawood handle. Pakkawood is a durable laminated wood material that offers the appearance of natural timber with improved stability and resistance to moisture.
Tsunehisa produces reliable, well-priced Japanese kitchen knives designed for consistent, everyday performance. Their blades combine modern steels with practical grinds and straightforward finishes, making them a popular choice among home cooks and professionals who want quality without pretence.
The blade uses VG10, a Japanese stainless cutlery steel known for its excellent balance of sharpness, edge retention and corrosion resistance.
VG10 contains carbon, chromium, molybdenum, vanadium and cobalt, allowing it to achieve good hardness while maintaining a fine cutting edge. It's a popular choice for Japanese kitchen knives thanks to its combination of cutting performance and relatively straightforward maintenance.
VG10 is stainless and relatively low maintenance compared with traditional carbon steels. We still recommend hand washing the knife after use and drying it thoroughly before storing.
Although the Honesuki is designed for working around bones and joints, avoid twisting the blade, cutting directly through bones or using it as a cleaver, as this could damage the cutting edge.
Never put a Japanese kitchen knife in the dishwasher.
Blade shape – Honesuki
Maker – Tsunehisa
Steel – VG10 Stainless Steel
Blade length – 150mm
Blade finish – Damascus Tsuchime
Handle – Brown Pakkawood
Made in – Japan
As with all Japanese knives, slight variations in finish and appearance may occur from knife to knife.
You must be aged 18 or over to purchase this knife. Age verification is required when purchasing knives from Community Cutlery, and age and identity checks may also be required on delivery.
We ship Tuesday to Saturday using Royal Mail Tracked 24.
All knives ship via an age verified service in accordance with The Offensive Weapons Act 2019, which will mean the postie will need you to be in to receive the delivery & to check your ID if you look under 25.
The law also requires us to carry out a soft age check of the purchaser after checkout, this is done by an automated system that usually doesn't require your input, although we will need to contact you for proof of age if you fail, which can sometimes happen if you use a work address.
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