Your preferred 180mm

[Kerneldrop]

I almost bough that knife but I ended up with a https://www.chefknivestogo.com/yofuwh1bu17.html I use this knife weekly it very rarely comes off of the magnetic board, it is shown here with the handle that I made for it.

I'm a sucker for the rustic small-shop sub $130 knives.
I'll often go through the knife brands on CKTG and look for small-shop blacksmiths with friendly-priced offerings.
Yasunori comes to mind.... one guy doing everything from start to finish and most in the $120 range.
But there's quite a few makers on CKTG like that...oddly a lot of them start with Y

[TheLegalRazor]

My 180mm Fujiwara Maboroshi santoku in white #1 gets regular use on smaller cuts of meat

[gladius]

I reach for it all the time, my well used Konosuke Fujiyama Blue #1 Santoku 180mm Khii Laurel