Shigefusa Kitchen Knives 2014

[@ronaldshepherd5992]

I watch a lot of YT and Smithing shows and i never seen this method before. Very impressed

[@drjekyll40]

The dedication, perfectionism and passion of the Japanese craftsman amazes me.

[@Eliel7230]

It is refreshing to see traditional, old world quality craftsmanship like this in a world that has gotten itself in too much of a hurry.

[@GPischner]

The respect for the blade is amazing. The detail for the blade is what make an knife that can out live you.

[@StaySharpFacas]

G Pischner it can outlive generations it's forged just like a Katana. It's a beautiful thing to see. Pega all rave about German knives zwilling and so on wich are just sheets of metal cut and sharpened by a robot with no hammering at all. Hammering changes the microstricture of the blade, makes it more dense, harder and can take sharper edges I bought a documentary showing the history and making of these knives it has 2 parts fortes it covers all the parts of the process part two it's. Only the making of a knife. If you interested let me know I can send the link on my Google Drive so you can watch it. It's. Wonderfull

[@GPischner]

Euclides Netto That would be great I would love to see it.

[@StaySharpFacas]

Here you go Part 1 drive.google.com/file/d/0BxsWadyTqGSrOTBiM0p0X0NDcGs/view?usp=drivesdk Part 2 drive.google.com/file/d/0BxsWadyTqGSrdW5IdHp4bVBLQ2c/view?usp=drivesdk Part 2 it's called the making of a knife I suggest watching in order. Understand the part 1 first then go to the more technical stuff on the second. 45 min on the first, 3l25 on the second After watching leave you comments here I sell knives here in Brazil, import from Japan been there a couple time got to meet the blacksmiths personally it's just incredible work. TAKEDA, KONOSUKE, MASAKAGE, TAKAMURA AND OTHER I'm a restaurant owner and I have a great deal of knowledge on Japanese blades feel free to ask any question love to share information about these. Habe fun

[@ESJ69]

Thanks for sharing. I am in awe of these men! You never see that kind of devotion to a craft anyone. I found the part when they were all working together very touching. For such a simple tool that knife was beautiful.

[@StaySharpFacas]

scott jenkins it's awesome thousands of years of skills passing by families I bought a documentary that shows the history of the blades how they are made, I can share if you want its on my cloud just contact me, it has 2 parts. Japanese are very devoted and disciplined people I've always admired them for that

[@sunray3379]

the last part of chiselling kanji characters Shigefusa into the metal blade was superb

[@sbialy]

this is so beautifull... Japanese art of swordmaking, and knifemaking is so mystical... I can watch this for many many hours....

[@ungkeanghay6216]

Same

[@daisy8luke]

I'd be honored just to be there watching these dudes work.

[@imallearsru]

We can only hope that there are young people apprenticing under these masters to take up the craft when they're gone.

[@bragee]

The final engraving is amazing.

[@ernestells6791]

Such precision I could only dream to have one of his knives and such a humble man unbelievable just amazing

[@vimeel4420]

The carved characters are so beautiful， powerful!

[@berndheiden7630]

And made with a simple straight chisel! At 15:37 one can admire the flawless execution, the proud seal of a master craftsman.

[@What_If_We_Tried]

Incredible old world craftsmanship!

[@Ouakadego]

Thank you for this great video. I'm so glad to see how my Shigefusa knife is made by these great people.

[@LuisMorales-tb7dq]

Wow, that's my 360 mm Kitaeji Takohiki at the 10:53 mark! The markings in the cladding near the kanji match exactly...very cool! Thank you Maksim

[@lawrencehudson4414]

Luis Morales support from Marquis

Incredible, so mesmerizing!

[@pabloabregu5502]

Am crying, ...nice music!

[@ogeidvassallo61]

the charm of manual tools in the hands of absolute wisdom give an extraordinary result

[@kurukururin]

Fantastic insight into one of the most revered knifemakers in Japan. Hard work for sure!

[@gianluigimarino8264]

i love japanese culture!!!!!

[@EazyE1104]

What an amazing video maksim! I need to show this video to people that wonder why I spend so much money on knives. Can't wait to see the new stuff that shows up from this trip :).

[@costeajean7455]

mľ

[@michaelpetruck1071]

Phantastische Arbeit. Vielen Dank

[@erikkz]

Wow, very nicely recorded Maksim, and love to see the skills from the Shigefusa family! Thanks for sharing.

[@chasq1]

It's nice to see old traditions being passed on I think we lack that here in the us !

[@OceanicGyogō]

Chas Waldron you all lack a lot of things in the U.S of A especially now that you all have Trump 😝😂😂 lol 😆

[@jafarfaraj5528]

Dedicated to perfection, amazing!

[@puderzucker8667]

Beautiful

[@mndlessdrwer]

Oh, wow. They draw-scrape the blades for the initial beveling? That takes so much skill.

[@lorenzotodd4673]

I wish I have the knowledge and skills to make this work of art

[@marktownsend2009]

Love your video

[@sayjivebao7318]

amazing video! amazing craftsmanship.

[@attilahidegfoldi8627]

Huge respect

[@orielfelz7599]

It is simply admirable, that's an admirable work of art, congratulations,the Japanese culture is incredible, I am speechless!

[@anginlalu5123]

they keep working with traditional method, ammazing

[@pvajit1109]

Scraping and peeling high carbon steel is awesome. These are custom built tools. Seeing this here is an experience itself.

[@antondulcev5624]

Hello, you do not accidentally know what the name of the tool is used to produce the rough processing of the blade, thank you for the answer earlier.

[@abelardocarneiro7007]

Um trabalho fantástico muito lindo digno de se v e muitas vezes encanta mesmo não pode do comprar uma ferramenta desta qualidade devemos espor nosso encanto parabéns

[@borne_free5510]

That is so amazing, what quality!

[@evanatwell3443]

I'm sorry, but is the father wearing a blue velour tracksuit?!?! If so, that is amazing. Shigefusa is already awesome to begin with. Props to them for keeping it real.

[@he-mansuncle7661]

Evan Atwell haha no, it's the tarp to collect all the shavings from the knife

[@ExiledTitan117]

god bless japan.

[@warrenbuitendag5286]

i wonder with all the commercially available stuff out there, how good of a living craftsman like these really make? really inspiring to watch this...

[@lechandler4041]

+Warren Buitendag A very good question. These kitchen knives are more like a work of art than a working utensil. I wonder if all this work (and cost) is justified for kitchen knives. Perhaps they would be better off producing swords, museum reproductions and custom knives for collectors and hunters. Swords can cost up to $20,000, knives to $5,000.

[@Roadzery]

Now that's craftsmanship right there! I have a few questions though. As a novice blacksmith i want to find a way to infuse chromium carbide into my blades, at 0:45 i see the borax but i also see some grey mixture in it and i don't think that's just old dirty borax since it's acting weird at 0:52, is this some kind of chromium carbide infusion together with borax or I'm mistaking? Also, that scrape technique is just amazing, I have never in my life seen such a technique and it got me thinking, one day i might forge myself one of these scrapers. And about the man at the end.... doing such precision work in his golden years... this is beyond impressive, i salute him. Great video, thanks for the upload, I've learnt a lot from reading and videos such as this one since i don't know any blacksmith where I'm from and I'm pretty much self taught, anyway, thanks again for the amazing video, and if you can provide an answer for my question i will be most grateful.

[@atkinsonkhan]

+Roadzery Check out the book Bladesmithing with Murray Carter. The flux mix is borax, boric acid and iron filings.

[@yizhoujiang1]

Mind blowing!

[@FranciscoKYamaguchi]

おめでとうございます、美しい作品のために、

[@claritean]

i just saw the red aoto and was like the hell what is gooing on here guys, things are real ! nice

[@GrzegorzGola]

Wow Maxim. Such a great video. Now I want Shigefusa even more. I hope that you will have loads of them on gathering:D

[@lucianodasilvamenezesmenez9759]

Imparessionante..eu adoro a cultura japonesa...☺☺☺

[@swapnilmule3922]

Want to see his gyuto performing in experienced chefs hands

[@stevesyncox9893]

Thank you

[@rahimselmani8006]

So nostalgic

[@fredericmaszka363]

Superbe vidéo!!!

[@natemccollum3731]

Wish I could get one

[@albertolambach5395]

Padre e hijos trabajando unidos ¿puede haber una fuerza mayor? Benditos por siempre!

[@fatcat7msk7ru]

Handplaining tool for shaving and shaping knife steel is very impressive

[@arceusmaster91]

Aleksandr Goldyrev it's basically a spokeshave, but with an insanely hard blade. Way harder than any normal knife, as in a normal knife it'd shatter. They are almost always made with differential heat treating, giving a soft body, with a insanely hard edge

[@kenichiyamada3759]

Aleksandr Goldyr

[@Ryarios]

Aleksandr Goldyrev I've never seen anything like it really. At least on that scale.

[@sukrusevis3666]

Halooo

[@guyfawkes8873]

It's a knife. For cutting knives. :D

[@chipzaroy]

amazing video!

[@РусланБондоренко-ы8х]

Магия приятно глазу. Умеют же люди. Уважаю

[@tienlishen7271]

Awesome video! Really like how the Shigefusa craftsmen use the disc blade to grind the knife by hand at 3:45. Shig knives have such a unique and complex grind along with great FF. 6:53 is that a JNS RED Aoto Matukusuyama? I was very tempted to purchase the red auto but it went out of stock

[@alheeley]

What is the grey powder they put on the glowing steel and what is its function?

[@Spoteddy]

That looks so amaizing when you can get flakes off of a metal like that, looks like wood

[@rahimselmani8006]

Masters true masters

[@JapaneseNaturalStones]

[@stefanstamatov7725]

+Maksim Enevoldsen (JNS) what is he doing 0:55 to 1:05?is this lamination ?glueing steel to steel?

[@fdtguru6673]

+Stefan Stamatov Yes, Japanese knives are almost always made by sandwiching a layer of carbon steel between 2 layers of soft-but-tough mild steel. When it is ground, only the carbon steel will be exposed at the edge.

[@marcoscaetano1286]

Congratulations on the beautiful work. It's a real art. Could someone tell me which product is the one that the boy puts between one steel blade and another? thankful

[@aslob9321]

Marcos Caetano + It’s typically flux, usually borax.

[@mpukas]

Fantastic Max!!!

[@ruicarlostoti9557]

Muito bom verdadeiros mestres!!!!! parabens!!!!

[@mariorossiexcite]

This the best vidabout Japanes knives I've seen on the Tube! And it's the first video where I can see the Sen in use: if you have more about it please show it! Btw: what kind of stone are they using at 11:40?

[@GrimDeth18]

This sounds like something an alien would say to blend.

[@cracusivanda7762]

Ta praca natchniona jest przez Ducha ....!

[@boesdi3908]

They shave the knife!!.. amazing

[@mrrandom5001]

the powder they're use for combining the steel,what is it called?

[@jasl7358]

Flux

[@ademdogan1]

Il est gaucher ou droitier ? Pas compris. Mais superbe travail.

[@Cinncinnatus]

okay he welded a different metal to the other piece of stock but didnt see the part where he folds it. Isnt that method normally done so the different metal is in the center of the piece?

[@ezraalcantra543]

that method is for katanas, which need shock resistance and flexibility. by not having the other cladding you able to make the cooking knife much thinner

[@Cinncinnatus]

@@ezraalcantra543 dunno the high end cooking knives Ive seen bend and can flex just like a katana but have a very hard surface but wont snap/crack why I asked.

[@MrPainfulTruth]

If you grind on only one end of that stone, dont you ruin it? You have to plane it?

[@mndlessdrwer]

+MrPainfulTruth if you have enough skill, you can simply grind carefully on the other parts of the stone and wear it down, overall, so you don't need to flatten it as much when you finally get around to it.

[@mndlessdrwer]

+Thabiet that is a really confrontational comment for someone who was merely asking a question to better understand the methods being shown. Please calm down.

[@MrPainfulTruth]

Thabiet U mad bro?

[@christopherneelyakagoattmo6078]

If you notice, he carefully looks at the stone. No doubt to see which way it is biased from the last bit of grinding. I have seen many such sharpening/polishing masters flip the stone around between knives so as to wear the stone evenly.

[@rjanzen3810]

Those ancient synthetic rubber anti-slip kitchen mats are very authentic and rare indeed :-| ..sorry, just mucking around..thumb firmly up.

[@cammywang8245]

厉害👍

[@edsonaugusto7351]

Parabéns felicidades

[@berbatdalyrrk]

Where is the quenching part???

[@dimitristsonas8685]

Πολυ ομορφα μαχαιρια.Ειμαι απο Ελλάδα και θα ήθελα να μου στείλετε ενα μαχαιρι του σεφ δωρεαν.

[@Fritziecola]

How do they make much of a living. The process is amazingly time consuming. Is it a point of pride.

[@paulm2467]

They struggled after the introduction of stamped knives but kept going and then when the international market found out about Japanese knives their work became valued and they had a bigger market, they were getting old and not getting apprentices 30/ 40 years ago but now they are acclaimed internationally, can charge a lot of money and are training new knifemakers, who in turn are becoming famed and respected. Yu Kurosaki, for example, apprenticed with legendary knifemaker Kato San for 15 years, he then went and apprenticed with ' living treasure of Japan' Anryu San for a further 8 years so 23 years of apprenticeship during which he set up, (with his master's permission), his own brand and forge where he too has gone on to international fame and fortune.

[@gabadoo6969]

amazing ideo,thanks for sharing it

[@fishmaniachannel]

An art

[@sakaipunjarak4401]

สุดยอดครับอยากไปตีมีดด้วยจังครับ

[@หมูอู๊ดอู๊ด-ร1ษ]

สวัสดีครับ ดีใจที่ได้เจอคนไทยในคลิปนี้ครับ😄😄😄

[@Saki630]

where is the hardening that creates the Hamon?

[@papasofie4413]

is it also created with tamahagane?

[@StaySharpFacas]

Rm Ramadhan Tamahagne is steel extracted from their rich high carbon sand, most of Japanese blades use high carbon steel blades like blue and white #1 and Aogami super etc... There are lots of better steels today probably that's what they are using. Very little manufactures make knives with Tamahagne just for traditional purposes.

[@gomezsoaasergiodavid7820]

Q hermosoooo 😲👍

[@antondulcev5624]

Hello, please tell me the name of the tool that processes the blade blank after forging starting from the 4th minute and ends at the 6th minute of the video. Thank you in advance!

[@AhmadJumul]

It called Sen..

[@ThePerpetualStudent]

Music sounds like you are trekking through some mountainous area in a RPG

[@veetour]

More impressive than swords forged in Mount Doom.

[@李杰-l5e]

匠人精神！！

[@joeparlaconte]

Because they do not nióbium in these knives??

[@Ramekenas]

So what the hell 4:50 so is that knife steel pille of s or what how in the world can he cut that it's like aluminum???Please someone prove me wrong i don't understand!

[@killthebetrayer]

Hardened steel vs non hardened steel, guess who wins :)

[@Ramekenas]

but they don't show the steel beeing hardened so do they sell the Legendary japanesse knives soft as play doh??

[@killthebetrayer]

It's understandable that they don't show the hardening process, some knife masters have special techniques. My guess is that the hardening is done after the shaping of the blade, and since the outer part of the blade is softer than the core piece, it's easier to cut. Or maybe he's using a carbide cutter but I don't think so :))

[@Ramekenas]

killthebetrayer oh you think they don't show the hardening on purpose , ok i can see that happening ,so their smithing process isn't a secret that for me is kinda odd and atleast they could've shown the blade being quenched ,and to sharpen before hardening is a waste of time because the edge is always lost atleast the hair witlling edge that they put on the blades.

[@killthebetrayer]

Heat treat is not something easy to master and there are some tricks like cryogenic stuff. Try to shoot an email to Buck knives and ask them details about thei heat treat :p I would see the heat treat at 6:30, but it's not easy to follow, since they didn't use the same knife... And shaping the blade before heat treat makes sense, because removing soft metal is easier, and then they put the edge on the core after the HT

[@jacobcrab593]

what is the powdery stuff he puts on at the beginning

[@sikanderheinsbroek1926]

+Jacob Crab a flux (example borax) that helps prevent oxidation from happening on the surface where the two steel pieces meet each other so that it makes a clean forgeweld without loose spots that haven't welded or impurities

[@jacobcrab593]

+Sikander Heinsbroek ok I badly want to get into knife making is borax best to use for Flux there are no blade schools around me so I'm unsure thank you

[@sikanderheinsbroek1926]

+Jacob Crab depends on the type of flux you have. borax is the most widely known and used flux. if you want you can even use sand as a flux, although i can't guarantee if is produces a good weld. my advice is to research and experiment alot. the difference between a master and a novice is that the master has made countles mistakes and learnt from those mistakes. best of luck to you

[@jacobcrab593]

+Sikander Heinsbroek ty very much for the advice I really want to try folding steel knifes dose this need a Flux and dose anyone know why he put that other piece of metal on there what is is purpose and can anyone recommend a book that at least gos through the basics of this craft ty

[@sikanderheinsbroek1926]

btw try to check walter sorrels channel, the guy is really thorough about knifemaking

[@ABDULLAH-BN-KHALED]

nice

[@robertqueberg4612]

This defines “hand made”.

[@etanateixeira3045]

👍👍👍

[@Kurokubi]

There's very little that's traditional about this. The techniques employed are predominantly Japanese but even those have a mix of modern in them. I'm not saying anything about the craftsmen in the video or their craftsmanship because they are still masters at what they do and their pieces perfectly reflect their skill and experience superbly, what I'm pointing out is the over exaggeration of the people who made the original video text.

[@yourtraining4255]

Бесподобно!

[@xclyliu]

他在那上面洒了什么？两块铁片就站在一起了。

[@adamli7168]

is the red brick jns red aoto

[@JapaneseNaturalStones]

Adam Li Yep :D Shigefusa uses both JNS 6000 and JNS red Aoto :)

[@Triangular_Fox]

cool, but who and where made the tool these knives made? 300 - 500 years ago or earlier... (3:34)

[@mohammadabu-saada4955]

Zwilling and Wusthof are watching and they’re like: hu??!

[@MoccaLG]

They both make really great knifes perfect shaped and sharpened ... but with no handwork... German Knifes are higher and are for lokomotive-choping :) while japan knifes are for normal chopping and the harder steel is more for cutting ... a bone will cause chipping and hurts the blade

[@CachSoul]

😂 Please don't compare apples and oranges. They are quite different dude.

[@juanjoseacunacalderon5579]

Bien

[@SitulaAqua]

Мне кажется или нож действительно из довольно мягкого металла ?

[@dont_touch_my_fingers]

Может пластилин, не?

[@aivarassaulys5039]

Сам удивился - как чеканить по заклённому, ведь нож уже с рукоятью!?! Возможно, закаляют только само остриё - окунают по ограничитель.

[@TheCoolRusik]

@@aivarassaulys5039 Скорее всего, чеканится мягкая обкладка, в начале видио показан процесс кузнечной сварки, на которой вваривается сердцевина из твердой стали

[@いしと-z9q]

美しい包丁

[@namiroraha7473]

what did you say.....