Shirogami II White Steel

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Shirogami II White Steel is known to be the purest or fine grained of the Carbon steels. It is also the most commonly used Shirogami steel by knife makers on Japanese kitchen knives. This steel is developed by  Hitachi Metals of Japan.

Elements of steel 

  •  Iron
  • Carbon 

 

Brands Using the steel

  • Nagao higonokami http://www.higonokami.jp/en/index.html
  • Kanetsune knives http://www.kanetsune.com/

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