Kessaku
Chef's & Paring Set
The Senshi Chef's Knife & Paring Knife Set is comprised of multi-purpose utensils designed to excel at many different kitchen tasks. With a Rockwell Hardness of 56, and sharpened to 14° per side using the traditional Japanese Honbazuke method, the impressively sharp, precision-forged blades allows for effortless slicing, coring, dicing, peeling, skinning, mincing, and chopping ingredients of nearly any size.
The Senshi Series
Japanese AUS-8 steel blades meet the standard of a tough, rust-resistant knife with a significantly long lasting razor-sharp edge. Carbon and Molybdenum explains its rigidity and high wear resistance, Chromium and Nickel increases mechanical strength and edge retention, and Manganese helps increase hardness, reduce structural wear, and makes for easy sharpening. Put that all together, add our heat-treatment and nitrogen cooling process to ensure durability, sharpness, and abrasion resistance, and you have yourself a new culinary life companion.
With a visually alluring pattern that changes with the light like a hologram, the G10 + carbon fiber handles are arguably the most qualitative of our series. Carbon fiber is one of the strongest materials used today for knife handles. It is much stiffer than steel, five times stronger, and impressively lightweight to minimize fatigue. By infusing the carbon fiber with military-grade G10 thermoset, we've created a handle not only incredibly robust, but with the resilience to thrive in the rigorous environments of the busiest kitchens.
Senshi Series Professional 8" Chef's Knife
The chef's knife is a multi-purpose instrument designed to excel at many different kitchen tasks. Its profile is especially helpful for rapid, staccato, rocking motions and enables you to slice, dice, mince, and chop with ease.
Senshi Series Professional 3.5" Paring Knife
The paring knife is a straight edge all-purpose knife with many uses, and its small size helps facilitate precise and intricate cutting details. It can peel the skin off a tomato, core an apple, hull strawberries, and transform citrus fruit to snazzy and spectacular slices. It’s also perfect for any foods that require attention to detail, such as de-veining a shrimp, removing the seeds from a jalapeño, and peeling, skinning, or cutting small garnishes. The paring knife picks up where a chef’s knife leaves off, as a great tool for slicing and mincing items that are too small for larger blades, such as garlic or shallots.
Blade Features
Hand sharpened using the complex, three-stage, traditional Japanese Honbazuke method to a perfect 14-degree angle per side for clean, precise cuts and amazing edge-retention, these vacuum heat treated and nitrogen-cooled blades are crafted from high carbon Japanese AUS-8 stainless steel for enhanced corrosion resistance. They have a Rockwell Hardness (HRC) of 56, providing maximum strength, flexibility, & blade edge durability. AUS-8 steel also incorporates vanadium, which further improves the blade’s durability and edge retention.
Handle Features
The G10 + Carbon Fiber handles are high-tech, military-grade, and astonishingly durable. The ingrained pattern changes as it catches the light (reminiscent of a holographic image). Its surface texture feels uniquely smooth and somewhat cool to the touch, like a combination of the best features of wood and steel. It is ergonomically designed for comfort and balance, has full tang strength (which means the blade extends all the way to the end of the handle) for a lifetime of safety and stability, and is heat, cold, moisture, and impact resistant.
Included Items
- Kessaku Senshi Series 8" Chef's Knife
- Kessaku Senshi Series 3.5" Paring Knife
- Kessaku Custom Leather Knife Sheath with Snap Closures (2)
- Kessaku Premium Gift Box with Magnetic Closures (2)
- Kessaku Polishing Cloths (2)
- Kessaku Care Instruction Booklets (2)
