Apex Ultra forged Long-Gyuto / Slicer

Forged Gyuto out of the high carbon Steel Apex Ultra.
A fine grained Steel with a hardness up to 67HRC but with an excellent toughness too.
The best performance Kitchen Knife steel that is also forgeable in my opinion.

The heat treatment needs more effort to do it correctly but it´s absolutely worth it imo.
I did two normalizing cycles, two grain refining cylces, soft annealing and a stress relieve cycle. Before hardening.

After hardening the blade get a deep freeze cycle in dry ice for 30-60min to get all the retained austenite out of the steel and two annealing cycles after that. This results in a hardness at about 66-67HRC.

The handle is made out of Birdseye Maple (stabilized) with Rokkaku Hanmaru shape and a Brass frontcap. Handle lenght is about 130mm-

Specs:
Apex Ultra at 66-67HRC
222g
272x55x6,2 – 2,3 – 0,3mm (1cm in front of the tip)
1cm above the edge:
1,8 – 1,3 – 0,5mm (2cm in front of the tip)
Balance Point about 40-50mm in front of the handle

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