Hayabusa 180mm Santoku Suminagashi HAP 40 Western Handle

We are happy to add these high performance knives from Hayabusa into our lineup, great for busy professionals and home cooks who are looking for long edge life and can look after a non stainless knife. 

These knives have a stainless suminagashi or damascus cladding over a high alloy HAP 40 core with a western style pakka wood composite handle. 

HAP 40 made by Hitachi’s Yasugi Specialty Steels is a high alloy powder metal with exceptionally excellent edge holding and toughness. HAP 40 is not a stainless alloy but rusts slowly given it’s rich alloy composition, sometimes referred to as ‘semi-stainless’.