I love everything about this knife. The wooden handle is very distinct with the gold and red accents. It is also very comfortable to hold. The blade design is cool with part of it hammered and the lower portion sand blasted. The super hard high carbon steel stays sharp for a very long time and is easy to maintain. The blade shape is great for prep. It gives me a smaller knife for quick small prep but with an offset handle for use on a cutting board you dont get with a pairing knife.
Absolutely phenomenal, feels great in the hand, cuts amazing right out of the box, and is an absolute pleasure to use. I wish it was a full 6 inch blade but thats just nit picking.
The Miyabi Artisan line is one of my favorite and the prep knife is one of my most used knives in the kitchen. It is super sharp so can slice, dice, and chop with percision and it feels comfortable in my hand while using, which is very important.
The shape of this knife is pure genius. I love the artizan collection for Miyabi, the handle is like a sculpture and the blade with its hammered outer layer are works of art.
I love these prep knives for the smaller, finer tasks, like deveining shrimp as I did the other night. The super sharp edge cut through channel and, in the Artisan's case, the hammered tsuchime blade didn't drag the meat, it just glided right through. This is an excellent prep knife, great for slicing super thinly. I also like it to clean up meats and poultry -getting rid of the silver skin, the bits of fat. A great prep knife is worth it's weight in gold - no, worth twice it's weight.
Perfect-sized SG2 micro-carbide Japanese steel. Mid-size pakkawood handle makes it the most controllable. Big knuckle clearance and hammered to prevent food-sticking.