White #1 Steel

White 1 steel - also known as Shirogami 1 - is one of the purest carbon steels from the Hitachi Yasugi plant. With no chromium or tungsten additions, it is almost entirely iron and carbon, giving an extraordinarily fine grain structure capable of a razor-keen edge. Edge retention is lower than Blue 1, but the sharpness and feel on the stones are genuinely unmatched.