Description
Bulk set discount: 15% off. Buying this set of 6 costs 15% less than buying the same knives one at a time.
This set is 6 of the same knife: Shishamo 8 Inches Damascus Knife Damascus Fish Fillet Knife. It is the same knife sold on its own single listing, packed together for groomsmen, a wedding party or a team. Every knife in the box is the same model.
Buying the set costs 15% less than buying 6 single knives. If you want names on them, tick the engraving option, type one name per line and each name goes on its own knife.
Seven inches of ladder-patterned blade on a handle built from four materials stacked, spaced and pinned by hand.
| Overall length | 12 inches |
| Blade length | 7 inches |
| Handle length | 5 inches |
| Handle | Black resin with walnut wood and brass file work spacers |
| Steel | 1095 + 15N20 Damascus, 352 layers |
| Hardness | 58–60 HRC, oil tempered |
| Pattern | Wind & Mix twist Fire pattern feather rain drop ladder Damascus Blade |
| Included | Hand-stitched leather sheath |
Best suited to: cleaning panfish and medium saltwater fish, trimming silverskin, and any job where you want a long thin edge that you can still steer with a fingertip on the spine.
Flex, and why seven inches is the sweet spot
Shorter than an eight or nine inch fillet blade, so it gives up some reach on a big side of fish. In exchange it flexes less wildly and it tracks better on a small fish where the whole cut happens in a few inches. A long thin blade is superb at following a contour and poor at anything that loads it sideways. Keep the pressure along the edge, never across it, and it will stay straight for years. The fillet knife guide explains what changes as the blade gets longer.
The handle stack
This is the part the photographs earn. Black resin makes up the body, a walnut wood spacer sits behind the blade, and a brass file-work spacer separates them with a machined pattern cut into its edge. Brass pins and a decorative mosaic pin hold the whole thing together. Nothing here is molded — every layer is cut, faced and fitted, which is why the seams sit flush and the pins finish level with the surface.
Salt water and a carbon blade
Carbon steel and brine do not get along. If you fish salt, treat the rinse as part of the job rather than something you do later: fresh water over the blade, a towel, then oil when you get home. Salt left in the etched pattern will pit it, and pitting does not polish out. Freshwater fish are gentler but their acids will still gray the steel, which is fine. For the difference between carbon and stainless in a kitchen, read our carbon versus stainless comparison.
Care: hand wash only, dry immediately, then a trace of food-safe mineral oil wiped across the steel before it goes away. The resin body needs nothing more than a wipe, but keep it out of direct sun and off hot surfaces — resin softens with heat. Give the walnut spacer a touch of the same mineral oil once or twice a year. Store the knife outside its leather sheath. A shorter alternative in the same family is the BMK-566 Damascus fish fillet knife.
FAQs
What is the mosaic pin made of? It is a decorative composite pin set into the handle, cut and finished flush after fitting.
Does the leather sheath fit the whole knife? Yes, it is cut and stitched to this blade. Store the knife outside it.
Will mine look identical to the photo? Close, not identical. The forged pattern and the natural walnut both vary piece to piece.
Model: Bmk-716
Matched sets for the whole wedding party are in Groomsmen Knives. Want just one? See the single knife listing.
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