Sakai Kikumori Nihonkou 180mm Petty Carbon Honing Paul Friedrich Dick took over Morseth knives were more Paul Friedrich Dick took over the company and started sharpening steel production growing the company to over 100 employees and branching out to butchers tools and cutlery For our 20th Anniversary we brought back an old design from our Cortland Ave & Guerrero Street days Sakai Kikumori was started in 1926 and draws on Sakai's 600 year history as the major center of traditional Japanese cutlery manufacturing Sometimes among comparisons of Japanese carbon steels SK family steels are viewed as inferior to more refined shirogami or aogami however when making single steel knives SK has its advantages