Brisa Chef Knife Kit, Japanese Style

Brisa Chef 185 mm Knife Kit

 Make your own full-sized chef knife with a 185 mm blade in Japanese stype.

The blade is made in Finland in Swedish 12c27 steel, a popular  stainless steel for chef knives.

Brisa is a quality knife brand, with precision ground blades and excellent finish.

This knife really feels like a quality tool with good weight distribution and a business edge on it.

 The Santoku knife is the Japanese version of the Western general use chef's knife.

The santoku is excellent for chopping vegetables and the wide blade works well for scooping sliced food off a cutting board.

The kit consists of 

• Chef fulltang blade, sharp and ready to handle
  
• Handle Scales, already shaped in 3D (see options)
• Red spacer material already glued into the handle scales
• Brass corby bolts

 Options: Select handle scale material.

This is a great starter project, requiring little work and few tools.

These make an excellent chef knife, taking and holding a razor sharp edge.

The chef knife kit can be completed with simple hand tools.

• Glue the handle scales to the knife blade with epoxy glue
• Tighten the corby bolts in the handle scale holes (For a tight fit, shorten the female end 1 mm with a file or belt sander)
• File or grind down the bolts level with the handle scales
• Optional: shape the handle scales more with file, rasp or coarse sand paper
• Smooth the handle with sand paper
• Optional finish: seal the handle with oil, wax or varnish

Example of an Brisa Chef with curly birch handle scales, by Graham G in Bundeena, NSW:

Example of the Brisa Chef completed with Ivory Linen Micarta scales, by Brett McCarthy, Townsville, QLD:

Black Canvas Micarta:

Brown Canvas Micarta:

Ivory Linen Micarta:

Desert Ironwood, Green Canvas Micarta and Curly birch scales:

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