Can Anyone Tell Me If This Is A Shun Knife

[Porthos]

I recently picked up this knife and can not determine if it is or is not a Shun. Can anyone tell me if it is or isn't?

 

[Martin Fisher]

Yes it is.

[liuzhou]

Yes. The character 旬 in the bottom right image says 'shun'.

Edited February 17, 2017 by liuzhou (log)

[Porthos]

Thank you both. A Shun for $4.00. I can live with that.

[lindag]

Wow!  4 bucks.  My Shuns are, without question, my best knives.  They stay sharp.

[TicTac]

Curious where you picked it up from...

[chromedome]

The shape strikes my eye as oddly old-fashioned, like something out of my great-grandmother's kitchen drawer. What would be its intended use?

[Martin Fisher]

10 minutes ago, chromedome said:

The shape strikes my eye as oddly old-fashioned, like something out of my great-grandmother's kitchen drawer. What would be its intended use?

 

Shun calls it a carving knife.

 

"Achieve the perfect slice of meat or poultry with the Shun Classic Carving Knife. It’s the right knife whether you want to carve paper-thin or thick and juicy slices. The razor-sharp blade makes a cleaner cut, which helps keep more of the juices—and more of the flavor—trapped in the meat. The longer blade means you can make precise slices with a single stroke, while the pointed, narrow tip lets you to cut meat away from the bone with ease. Turkey, beef, or the delicate flesh of a holiday salmon—the Shun Classic Carving knife handles them with ease, keeping the flavor sealed in and making sure your tableside presentation is perfection itself."

[chromedome]

All righty, then. My first take was that it was a bit short for a carving knife, but I suppose that'd be carving as differentiated from slicing...you'd want something a bit nimbler for working around joints and such. 

[daveb]

https://shun.kaiusaltd.com/knives/knife/classic-carving-knife

 

200mm carving knife?  Yawn.

[Tri2Cook]

8 hours ago, daveb said:

 

200mm carving knife?  Yawn.

More like: $170 knife for $4! Yay!

[TicTac]

9 hours ago, daveb said:

https://shun.kaiusaltd.com/knives/knife/classic-carving-knife

 

200mm carving knife?  Yawn.

Aren't ya just a ray of sunshine on a dark stormy day!

 

Great deal OP; still curious as to the source...

[daveb]

10 hours ago, Tri2Cook said:

More like: $170 knife for $4! Yay!

 

9 hours ago, TicTac said:

Aren't ya just a ray of sunshine on a dark stormy day!

 

Great deal OP; still curious as to the source...

 

 

Mea culpa.  It is a heck of a buy.

 

I was off my meds...

[Porthos]

10 hours ago, TicTac said:

Great deal OP; still curious as to the source...

 

 

Sorry, @TicTac, I amnaged to miss the question the first time. I found it at Megathrift in Rialto, CA. It's the same store I picked up a Wusthof 6" Classic Chef's Knife for $2.00 last November.  That knife went to my wife at her request.

[Porthos]

So today I began working on the edge. There are so many nicks in the edge it will likely take me 1 1/2- 2 hours, using my 220 stone - the coarsest stone I have, to remove enough metal to get to a clean edge. The appearance of the nicks are as if  someone took this knife and kept striking its edge against the edge of another knife, like a poorly-fought duel.

[Thanks for the Crepes]

14 hours ago, Porthos said:

So today I began working on the edge. There are so many nicks in the edge it will likely take me 1 1/2- 2 hours, using my 220 stone - the coarsest stone I have, to remove enough metal to get to a clean edge. The appearance of the nicks are as if  someone took this knife and kept striking its edge against the edge of another knife, like a poorly-fought duel.

 

Still a good investment, but it makes me want to harm the person who was responsible for abusing this instrument so. 

[Tri2Cook]

3 hours ago, Thanks for the Crepes said:

 

Still a good investment, but it makes me want to harm the person who was responsible for abusing this instrument so. 

Really?