Damascus Nakiri Knife 180mm — Wenge Wood Handle

Most knives can cut vegetables. The nakiri was built for nothing else — and that single-minded focus changes everything about how it performs on the board.

菜切り. “Vegetable cutter.” The name says exactly what this knife is. No tip for piercing. No curved belly for rocking. No compromise for protein work. Just a wide, flat blade designed to travel in a straight line from heel to tip — making full contact with the cutting board on every stroke, leaving nothing uncut, requiring no pulling motion, producing no drag. When you need to break down 10kg of carrots, julienne cabbage for service, or brunoise shallots at speed, the nakiri doesn’t just work better than a chef knife — it works in a completely different way.

This 180mm Damascus Nakiri is forged from VG10 high-carbon stainless steel at HRC 60 — the same core steel as our gyuto, but expressed in a completely different blade geometry. The wide rectangular blade creates natural knuckle clearance as you work through large produce. The flat edge means every push-cut is clean and complete. The thin VG10 core behind the Damascus cladding means the knife glides rather than wedges — even through dense root vegetables like burdock, daikon, and celeriac that would cause a thicker blade to bind.

The Damascus pattern on this nakiri has a different visual character to a gyuto or bunka — the wide flat blade gives the layered steel more surface area to show, making the flowing Damascus pattern more dramatic and visible. In a retail display or product photograph, the nakiri stops people. It looks unlike any knife most buyers have seen before.

The wenge wood wa-handle completes the picture. Dark, dense, tight-grained — wenge has a natural visual weight that matches the nakiri’s broad blade. The octagonal profile sits differently in the hand than a Western handle: lighter grip pressure, more control at the fingertips, less fatigue during long prep sessions. For any kitchen doing serious vegetable work, this combination of flat blade geometry and Japanese handle design is not a preference — it is a meaningful upgrade in how the work feels.

Who orders this knife? Plant-based and vegetable-forward restaurants building a specialist prep toolkit. Ramen shops and Japanese restaurants where vegetable prep volume is high. Culinary retailers who want a Damascus knife with a genuinely different story to tell — not another gyuto in a different size. Private label brands targeting the fast-growing plant-based dining and home cooking market.

Custom branding: Laser engrave your logo or text directly on the blade — no minimum order, no setup fee. For custom branded packaging, minimum 100 pieces with a one-time $117 setup fee per box design, never charged again on reorders of the same design.

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