I made this knife mainly because I'm curious about what these Japanese style single beveled knives are like to use and I wasn't going to buy one of I can make one myself.

The blade was made through stock removal starting with 3mm O1 that I thinned down to roughly 2.5mm. The handle is Ash that I saved from the firewood pile at work with a bog oak spacer. The knife is 13" long.

nice job. simple but clean.

Looks pretty nice. But the pictures make details hard to see. Could we get some better pics perhaps?

Thanks for the comments, here are a few more photos I just took, it's been used a little now so the steel has started developing a patina in places.

This is probably one of the best performing blades I've made, the edge geometry really lends itself to slicing.

 

Much better. The handle is awesome, I'm loving the look of that ash. 

Really nice work.  Thanks for posting the second set of pics.