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Editors Choice Randy Haas
Category: Knives/Editors Choice Knives
... first Left hand ground blade I have ever made and also the largest feather pattern blade we have ever made. Its stylistically a Japanese influenced design. The knife was part of a two knife set for a ... Friday, 25 May 2012 -
Gilles Fontenille Pataud
Category: Knives/Knife Reviews
... appeal in that they are usable ; I carry my carbon damascus Laguiole and use it daily for cutting sausage and bread although I would not use it for everything just as I would not use a Japanese Santoku ... Monday, 07 May 2012 -
Macabee Knives Hammer-in
Category: People/Knives News
... Will be making Mokume Gane, non-ferrous Damascus for blade fittings. John Logan will be forging a Tomahawks. Eric Nelson will be demonstrating Japanese cutting techniques and talking Japanese blades. ... Tuesday, 06 March 2012 -
The Kanemoto Japanese Sword
Category: Knives/History of Knives
... copper. Saya also appears to have a variation on the pine emblem repeated in black at intervals through out the red lacquer. This sword was taken from a Japanese officer during the battle of Okinawa ... Sunday, 07 August 2011 -
Memoriam Bub Worrell
Category: People/Memoriam
... a japanese sword handle, is framed in engraved nickle silver fittings. Engravings are by Ron Nott. < Damascus Hunter Made to fit in the hand like nothing ... Friday, 14 January 2011 -
Memoriam Bub Worrell
Category: People/Memoriam
... Though a beauty to behold this is not a delicate piece as it features a fine sturdy 8 inch blade in 320 layer damascus. The rich fossilised Walrus ivory handle with oval crossection, like a japanese ... Friday, 14 January 2011 -
Making The Stub Tang
Category: Workshop/How to make knives
Japanese swords and traditional Tanto are made with the hidden tang and so also are a host of other traditional patterns. The tang on Japanese Tanto can sometimes be so short that expecting them to perform ... Friday, 14 January 2011 -
Stones
Category: Workshop/Tools
... time as a result of the weight of overlaying rock. This can take millions of years. Japanese "Mudstones" as they are commonly called, can be very fine grit and are generally soft. They can impart a ... Friday, 14 January 2011 -
Safety
Category: Workshop/How to make knives
... by poor technique. The realisation dawns that had it been a Japanese sword made in the traditional way it would be ruined. Because without perfect and practised technique the traditional sword is very ... Friday, 14 January 2011 -
The PoleArm
Category: Knives/History of Knives
... had a crossguard which was later copied on German hunting spears and used to ensure that penetration was not too deep into the animal so removal was consequently easier. The Japanese yari features an ... Thursday, 13 January 2011 -
Bike And Sword
Category: People/Stories
The search for a sword can be a frustrating activity. It all puts me in mind of a time some years ago when I used to go around the gun shows in my area looking for a sword in the Japanese style. Mostly, ... Thursday, 13 January 2011 -
Nahuarra KO
Category: Knives/Knife Reviews
... already sold on Nahuarra so there was no need for him to go out of his way. But the new KO moves much closer to the Japanese original it is based on which is something we have been pushing for. Nahuarra ... Thursday, 13 January 2011 -
Nahuarra Sword
Category: Knives/Knife Reviews
... send us one of his Japanese style swords for evaluation. Having warned him that we might be strict he never the less persisted which indicated that he had full confidence in the product. This encouraged ... Thursday, 13 January 2011 -
Nahuarra Knife
Category: Knives/Knife Reviews
... One day out of the blue Miguel who handles the internet side of their concern suggested that he send us one of his Japanese style swords for evaluation. But thats another story. ... Thursday, 13 January 2011 -
Munich Report 2001
Category: People/Knives News
... group based on original Japanese information. The Jury consisted of (without Wolf Schulz Tattenpach and Magnus von Kuehlmann due to sickness) the Showmaster Franz Becker, himself Knifemaker for over ... Thursday, 13 January 2011 -
Kozuka
Category: Knives/Knife Reviews
... samurai steak knife/utility. The very first example was made of balsa wood and sent to Barry by me in 1996. The original intention was to make a kozuka to go with the Dawson Japanese style sword. The ... Tuesday, 23 November 2010 -
Fabrication Koshorae
Category: Workshop/How to make knives
Fabrication Most sword parts today are either turned from solid or made as castings. Original Japanese sword furniture or "koshirae" were fabricated in sheet. This offered some advantages over solid ... Tuesday, 23 November 2010 -
Kniveslida
Category: Workshop/How to make knives
... applied to the making of other goods made in leather. Like a leather cover for a Japanese sword scabard or a cover for a maglite, for instance. Step #4 Paper is thinner than leather so now ... Tuesday, 23 November 2010 -
Kitchen Knives
Category: Knives/History of Knives
... and unyielding as result. The Japanese have always had a particular talent with kitchen knives. Their traditional knives tend to be a bilaminate of high carbon and mild steel for an overly sturdy blade ... Tuesday, 23 November 2010 -
Japanese Sword Proportions
Category: Workshop/How to make knives
Sword proportions. A stout one would be 34-35 mm high at the machi, 25-26 mm at the yokote. More in the tachi area would reduce those by two to four mm each. I prefer 34/24 myself. The long ... Tuesday, 23 November 2010