Kabayama Blacksmith Kurouchi Aogami All‑Purpose Funayuki Knife 165mm

After watching the video about this Blacksmith, I was impressed and placed my order, at £177.00. I waited for some time for my knife to arrive, held at customs. In the end I ended up paying £245.00 after customs fees, VAT & further postage fees in the UK. So this turned into quite an expensive knife! After opening the box, I tried to remove the knife from the plastic sleeve, the sleeve was stuck tight to the knife and had to be ripped away? It seems that the excessive amount of varnish or lacquer had adhered to the plastic? The wooden handle has dye coming off on my hand and to make things worse, the ferrule is plastic? there is quite a step between the ferrule and handle, which is not comfortable. The applyed varnish needed to be removed, I used acetone to the varnish and adhered plastic, doing so completely removed the kurouchi finish? I also needed to pack the gaps between handle steel tang with Beeswax? This could be a great knife! I feel very disappointed.