N690 Kiridashi Knife Blank - N98
A kiridashi, and a big one. Where the traditional kiridashi is a pocket marking knife, this is the version you build a working utility blade around — 85 mm (3.3 in) of edge on a 205 mm (8.1 in) blank, with scales pinned straight to the steel rather than a slotted handle.
Single bevel, right handed. Ground on one side only, which is what gives a kiridashi its behaviour: the flat face rides against the workpiece and the cut tracks exactly where you put it. For marking joinery, scoring leather or trimming into a corner, nothing with two bevels comes close.
Böhler N690 is the reason this holds up in daily use. Cobalt and vanadium give it fine grain and real edge retention, 17% chromium keeps it stainless, and at 4.2 mm (0.17 in) the blank has enough spine to be levered without flexing.
The handle is two scales and three pins — the simplest build there is, and the strongest. The tang is drilled and profiled already.
Specifications
Steel : Böhler N690 Stainless Steel
Hardness : 58-60 HRC
Thickness : 4.2 mm (0.17 in)
Grind : Single bevel, right handed, flat with secondary bevel
Blade Length : 85 mm (3.3 in)
OAL : 205 mm (8.1 in)
Tang : Full Tang
Pin Holes : 6 mm (0.24 in)
Hand ground in our workshop and professionally heat treated at the mill. Sent sharpened.
Dispatched via UPS Express — European orders land in 1-3 business days, American orders in 2-5.
Manufacturer
Böhler (Voestalpine)