I have a 300mm x 38mm x 3mm bar of san mai I will be sending out for heat treat sometime early next year. Once get through my current orders I will include this blade in my next batch to Peters heat treat. I wont name the steel until after the pass around. It will be a mystery
All I will say is that it is a premium product only recently available outside of Japan.If any members here wish to contribute to the design please feel free to post here or email your thoughts. You can also sign up for the pass around here and I will copy and paste once the official pass around thread is created.
The design parameters is pretty open ended.
1. Blade length could be anywhere from 160 to 250mm
2. Blade height anywhere from 30 to 38mm
3. Grind can be a 48" radius double bevel "s" type, convexed, or full flat grind. Due to the san mai it must be 50/50 though.
4. This could have a huge flat spot or very little.
5. The distance between front of handle and the choil is also a critical dimension for many.
6. Handle shape can be Octagon, D, western, oval, or even dove-wa if enough people want to see this in person.
I will keep the type of steel and RC hardness a mystery so that we can really get some objective analysis going.
I will also post a photo of each step as a guide and idea as to what goes into my method of producing such a knife.
This is sort of a long term project but for those with the patience and insatiable desire to try new things it will be worth the wait
