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I've been wanting to do this for a long time and Stuart Branson's awesome Japanese inspired work finally got me going on it again.
I'm not a huge poetry kind of guy.. but I've been in love with Basho's 'Back Roads to Far Towns or Oku-no-hosomichi' for a long time. Basho was a haiku master living in the 1600s who once went on a long pilgrimage throughout Japan. The book is his diary of this pilgrimage and it's written in the form of haiku. I've been wanting to make the kind of knife that a simple Japanese traveler may have carried.. at least in my imagination. I envisioned a large field knife that could be used for bushwhacking, food prep, utility and self defense.
It's Aldo 1084 quenched with some clay and displaying light, simple hamon. 10" blade. Tsuka has birch bark "same'", rattan cane "ito", and distressed copper menuki. The scabbard is still being experimented with. The rattan and birch bark are stabilized with epoxy.
This will be with me at the Wisconsin Fall Knife Show at the end of the month....
I'm not a huge poetry kind of guy.. but I've been in love with Basho's 'Back Roads to Far Towns or Oku-no-hosomichi' for a long time. Basho was a haiku master living in the 1600s who once went on a long pilgrimage throughout Japan. The book is his diary of this pilgrimage and it's written in the form of haiku. I've been wanting to make the kind of knife that a simple Japanese traveler may have carried.. at least in my imagination. I envisioned a large field knife that could be used for bushwhacking, food prep, utility and self defense.
It's Aldo 1084 quenched with some clay and displaying light, simple hamon. 10" blade. Tsuka has birch bark "same'", rattan cane "ito", and distressed copper menuki. The scabbard is still being experimented with. The rattan and birch bark are stabilized with epoxy.
This will be with me at the Wisconsin Fall Knife Show at the end of the month....
I like the sound of the new plan a lot and look forward to seeing the pics.