Seven-inch VG-10 santoku for a Canadian board

Seven-inch VG-10 santoku with hand-forged Damascus cladding

This card is the 7" VG-10 Santoku — “7 Inch Japanese Santoku Knife, Hand-Forged Damascus VG10 Steel Core.” Maker on the listing: Atumuryou. The core is named VG-10; the face is Damascus. Length is about seven inches. That combination is the offer, not a Xinzuo bunka and not an eight-inch gyuto on the same shelf.

A santoku is flatter than a Western chef’s knife. You push-cut more than you rock. Seven inches is the common Japanese length: easier in a small apartment kitchen than an 8-inch chef, less reach across a roast. If you wanted the Mitsumoto Sakari 8.5-inch VG-10 santoku in a wood box, that is a different maker and a different length.

Hand-forged Damascus cladding over VG-10 is the construction the title names. Atumuryou is the maker. No layer count, no HRC. The 8-inch chef from the same workshop (KV-95) is the rocking sibling. Xinzuo’s bunka is a k-tip at 5.8 inches with 67 layers — different maker, different shape.

Hone VG-10 weekly on a ceramic rod. Hand-wash. Priced in CAD, Damascus shelf, adults 18+, The Knife Vault. Small-kitchen primary blade if you dislike a long gyuto.

VG-10 under the pattern

VG-10 is the steel that actually cuts. It takes a fine kitchen edge and comes back on a ceramic rod. Hand-wash it. The dishwasher will pit a core and fade cladding. We do not print an HRC for this SKU because the card did not.

“Hand-forged Damascus” on the title is the cladding process the listing names. Layer count is not printed here (unlike Xinzuo’s 67-layer cards). Do not borrow a 67 from a neighbouring SKU.

• Form: santoku, listed length 7 in.
• Core: VG-10. Cladding: Damascus, hand-forged as titled.
• Maker: Atumuryou. SKU: KV-77.
• Not a bunka, not a nakiri, not a three-piece Xinzuo set.

Board work this santoku likes

Herbs, onion, boneless meat, a small cabbage. The sheep’s-foot-ish tip is less of a piercing tool than a gyuto point. It is the wrong knife for bread (serrations) and for winter squash you would rather hit with a cleaver.

Hone weekly. Stone when the hone stops biting. VG-10 is not M390; a normal kitchen stone is enough. Priced in CAD, adults 18+, tracked from The Knife Vault. More on geometry in the kitchen knife guide.

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