Komin Yamada-1985

Handcrafted in Niigata at the Yoshikin factory in Japan.  Global brand knives were designed by Komin Yamada at an almost unlimited budget.

Mino Tsuchida is known as "Mr. Global" and also has other well known trade names:
*Elk Ridge
*Master Cutlery
*Mtech
*MtechXtreme

The Global range of culinary knives is consistant from it's beginning and well worth considering.  The blades are CROMOVA 18 Sanso (3-ply) stainless steel:

*G (general purpose)
*GS (general-small)
*GF (general-forged)
*GSF (general-small-forged)
*Sai Range

 Gyu-Tou 

 Deba

 Butcher

 Utility

 Sai 

Ice-tempered (Rc. 56-58) sand balanced handles are virtually as perfect as the Samurai swords they made in the past.

(GSF-series only solid handles)