Miyabi Birchwood vs Shun Premier — Bread Knife.

The Miyabi Birchwood line is Miyabi’s highest end knife line. It uses SG2 steel with a hardness of 63 for the blade and then further wraps either side with 50 layers of stainless steel, creating one of the most jaw-dropingly gorgeous damascus patterns you’ve ever seen. The blade is ground down to an insanely sharp 9 degree angle and the handle itself is made of birchwood— a wood originally used for million dollar faberge eggs.

The Shun Premier is an extremely high-end line-- it uses hard steel, it is clad in 34 layers of stainless steel, it has a hammered finish, it has a full tang passing through a brown pakkawood handle, and it comes with lifetime sharpening.

In this video, compare and contrast the Miyabi Birchwood Bread Knife to the Shun Premier Bread Knife and give my thoughts.