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I had the opportunity to visit a semi-local knife shop (aobut 90 minute drive) on Tuesday. They have a wonderful collection of knives, including many discontinued products. Here are two that I picked up from them.
This one is the Kuma Zume 130 push dagger that BM made. It's a very nice little knife, and would fulfill its purpose very well.
The next one is a Pacific Cutlery 750 Kuzan Oda Tanto. Here is the info I was given about it:
The Tanto was designed for Pacific Cutlery Corp. (the company that is currently Benchmade Knives and was originally Balisong Inc.) by Japanese maker Kuzan Oda who worked with R.W. Loveless in the 1970's and now resides in Alaska. The G. Sakai Company of Seki City Japan manufactured 2500 of these for P.C.C. in the mid 80's along with a lower-priced version with a die-cast versus molded rubber handle.
Overall the knife is 10 1/2'' long, the blade is 5 3/4'' from guard to tip and 3/16'' thick, it has a mirror polished finish with simulated (bead blast) "hamon" (the temper line found on traditional Japanese blades) it has the smooth transitions of the Japanese style blade versus the sharper bevels of the "American Tanto". As mentioned above, the handle is molded rubber, the guard is Stainless Steel and is silver soldered to the blade. There is also an ambidexterous (belt slits on both sides) leather sheath included.
This one is the Kuma Zume 130 push dagger that BM made. It's a very nice little knife, and would fulfill its purpose very well.
The next one is a Pacific Cutlery 750 Kuzan Oda Tanto. Here is the info I was given about it:
The Tanto was designed for Pacific Cutlery Corp. (the company that is currently Benchmade Knives and was originally Balisong Inc.) by Japanese maker Kuzan Oda who worked with R.W. Loveless in the 1970's and now resides in Alaska. The G. Sakai Company of Seki City Japan manufactured 2500 of these for P.C.C. in the mid 80's along with a lower-priced version with a die-cast versus molded rubber handle.
Overall the knife is 10 1/2'' long, the blade is 5 3/4'' from guard to tip and 3/16'' thick, it has a mirror polished finish with simulated (bead blast) "hamon" (the temper line found on traditional Japanese blades) it has the smooth transitions of the Japanese style blade versus the sharper bevels of the "American Tanto". As mentioned above, the handle is molded rubber, the guard is Stainless Steel and is silver soldered to the blade. There is also an ambidexterous (belt slits on both sides) leather sheath included.
