Xinzuo 5.8-inch bunka chef knife in Damascus

A 5.8-inch Xinzuo bunka, not a three-piece set

This listing is the Xinzuo 5.8" Bunka Chef Knife — one k-tip board knife in a gift box — not the Xinzuo chef / santoku / utility set and not an eight-inch kiritsuke. The commercial title is “XINZUO Damascus Steel Bunka Chef Knife 5.8-inch 67-Layer Super Steel Figured Sycamore Wood Handle Exquisite Brass Rivet Gift Box.”

Maker is Xinzuo. Steel is listed as Damascus. Unlike the three-piece set on this shelf, this card does not print an HRC figure, so we do not invent 60 HRC to make the spec table look fuller. Cladding is 67 layers. The handle is figured sycamore with a brass rivet. It ships in the listed gift box.

A bunka is a chef’s knife with a clipped k-tip. The belly still rocks an onion; the point is for garlic, ginger, and trim. At 5.8 inches it is a compact primary blade for a small Canadian kitchen, not a 240 mm gyuto and not a vegetable nakiri.

K-tip geometry at the length printed on this card

Five-point-eight inches is short for a Western chef’s knife and honest for a bunka. You give up some knuckle clearance and roast reach; you gain control on a cramped board. If you wanted an 8-inch kiritsuke with tricolor copper cladding, that is a different URL (the 37-layer kiritsuke on this shelf). If you wanted a 7-inch VG-10 santoku, that is another card again.

Protect the k-tip. It is the feature and the failure point. Bone, frozen food, and twisting in a squash will snap a clipped point that a round-tip chef’s knife would have survived. This bunka is board steel, not a cleaver.

• Form: bunka (k-tip chef’s knife) at 5.8 in as titled.
• Cladding: 67-layer Damascus. Core mill name: not printed on this card.
• Handle: figured sycamore wood with brass rivet.
• Packaging named on the title: gift box — packaging for this SKU, not a claim that every Xinzuo ships boxed.
• Maker: Xinzuo. SKU: KV-25. Finish: Damascus steel.

How to use this bunka on a Canadian board

Push-cut herbs and onion; rock through boneless chicken; use the clipped tip to pick out the last bit of ginger. It will do ninety percent of weeknight cooking if you accept the shorter blade. It will not slice a large boule (buy a serrated bread knife) and it will not joint a chicken (use shears or a boning knife).

This is a single-knife purchase. Cooks who want chef plus santoku plus utility in one box should leave this page and open the three-piece Xinzuo set. Cooks who want a gift-boxed k-tip in figured sycamore should stay here.

Damascus cladding, sycamore, and the gift box

Sixty-seven layers are the pattern you see after etch. They are not a Rockwell number. Edge life still depends on the unnamed core and on whether you hone. Hand-wash; never the dishwasher. Dry the blade and the sycamore before they go in the box or on a magnet.

The gift box is listed on this title so the page is distinguishable from Xinzuo knives that ship without one. It is packaging, not a certificate, not a review, and not a hardness lab report.

Brass rivet furniture matches the look of the three-piece set’s brass rivets, but this handle is one knife, one rivet line, one 5.8-inch bunka. Do not assume the set’s 60 HRC figure applies here; that number is printed on KV-1, not on KV-25.

Who should buy this bunka

Buy it if you specifically want Xinzuo’s 5.8-inch bunka in 67-layer Damascus with figured sycamore, a brass rivet, and the gift box named on the card, priced in CAD. Skip it if you needed a full set, a VG-10-cored santoku, or a folding knife. Adults 18+. Tracked shipping from The Knife Vault.

For how a bunka sits next to a gyuto and a santoku, read the kitchen knife guide. This URL is only KV-25.

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