Hello from Japan

[Gifu-boy]

Hello everyone, this is my first post here!!!

I live about 30 mins drive from Seki City where they make some of the Spyderco blades. Four or five years ago I visited the G.Sakai factory and store and spent a while chatting to the owner, who was very proud in showing me all the blades he produces. For some reason I never bought one.... Last week I was thinking about buying a blade so I thought I'd go and check out the Sakai store again. Sadly its all closed down.... So I tried the other address on their website which turned out to be the Gerber-Sakai factory itself. Sadly no shop there either.... Looks like the only place is going to be online.

Finding Spydercos over here seems to be much harder than in the US. I've spent ours searching online here and a lot of the good stuff is either sold out or VERY expensive. I really want to get hold of Caly 3.5 Super Blue, but I can't find one anywhere. I guess I'm a couple of years too late.... Do they ever turn up for sale anywhere?

Steve

 

[Krav]

Welcome to the forum, watch the exchange here. Knives turn up everywhere.

 

[Gifu-boy]

Thanks, I'll keep searching!!!

 

[inkynate]

I got mine here on the exchange a few months ago, new in box! This picture is from the first time the blade stained:

It has many more now

 

[macknife12]

Welcome Steve,
Love Japan, great steel,great knives great cars, great watches, electronics etc...
Cheers

 

[Gifu-boy]

Apophis, that's beautiful. I'm even more desperate to find one now.... Thanks

 

[Gifu-boy]

Welcome Steve,
Love Japan, great steel,great knives great cars, great watches, electronics etc...
Cheers

It's a great place to live. Got a Subaru, got a titanium Seiko diver, got the electronics and I got this knife at the Seki knife festival a few years ago. The foods pretty good, too!!!

 

[macknife12]

That looks ancient, very nice.
Seiko's and Nissan myself.lol
Cheers

 

[u.hansen]

delete

 

[inkynate]

Apophis, that's beautiful. I'm even more desperate to find one now.... Thanks

Thanks. That pic you posted up is pretty awesome as well. My main kitchen knives are a Kanetsugu gyuto from the "pro-m" series and a Tojiro Shirogami utility knife. Very happy with the ergos, performance, etc... I don't have any damascus yet, your pic makes me want to fix that

 

[truth-seeker]

It's a great place to live. Got a Subaru, got a titanium Seiko diver, got the electronics and I got this knife at the Seki knife festival a few years ago. The foods pretty good, too!!!

That knife is absolutely beautiful , would love to see the whole thing if you have a picture around, What is the handle like.

 

[Sal Glesser]

Konichiwa Steve,

Hagimemashte. Welcome to our forum.

sal

 

[Gifu-boy]

Thanks for the warm welcome! It's good to hear some of you have family that visit Japan, have some very nice kitchen knives and speak some Japanese!!!
I'm still searching for a Super Blue Caly, so I'm hoping (preying) someone replies to my WTB soon....
Apologies as this is the Spyderco forum, but here are some more pics of the above blade as requested. Hopefully my next pics will be of a Caly!!!

Steve

 

[truth-seeker]

Thanks Steve,
I think that knife is just so Beautiful it has such Classic looks, the handle just makes the blade pop.
And I too must apologize for asking/having you post them here Forgot which sub-forum I was in.
But I don't think anyone will mind once in a while spyderco guys are east going for the most part and All knives are Cool.

 

[RevDevil]

That is some beautiful Damascus Steve.
Welcome to the forums, glad to have you.

 

[Gifu-boy]

Thanks again,
As I mentioned, I picked it up at the Seki Knife Festival a few years back. Among other things, it's a street festival that has store after store of blade related products along one long street. Various other events happen around the town including live katana displays and katana forging. (I'll post some pics later)

Anyway, I'd walked up and down the street checking every store but was unable to find anything I really liked. I decided to give it one more go and very close to the end of the stores I found two blades with wooden handles in leather sheaths right in the middle of hundreds of other knives. I thought that something so simple looking might have a surprise, so when I pulled it out of the sheath I was stunned!!! Other people around me suddenly took notice, so I grabbed both of them and spent the next five minutes deciding which had the best looking blade. The store owner thought I was crazy!!! As soon as I put the other blade down, someone picked it up.

Steve

 

[murfdog67]

Steve sounds beautiful and interesting. My father, rest his soul, was stationed on the north Island, I'm not familiar with the islands geography, shameful for a college graduate. He said it was very cold. He loved Japan even though he was there during the tail end of the Marshall plan. He traveled to many destinies under the US military agency, but always his heart was in Japan. I have fallen in love with Spydies and would love to have had the opportunity to visit their facility. I hope your stay there is as life changing as my father's was to him. Thank you for your post, it reminded me of him. ☺

 

[Sal Glesser]

Much of our company's culture and mfg was greatly influenced by Japan. I have a picture of Soichiro Honda on my office wall, and Musashi behind my desk.

sal

 

[murfdog67]

Sal I believe many American companies have been influenced by Japan. ALL American Automobile producers literally followed the Japanese model. I mean they had no choice. American technology companies had to do the same. I look around my home and all of the technology I have was either made in Japan or here in America by a Japanese company, including my new Spydie Caly 3.5 on it's way. Woohoo! I mentioned in an earlier post my father was stationed in Japan after the war, helping them rebuild their industries using the Marshall plan as a road map. So absolutely I think American and Japanese industries are intrinsically linked. More than most Americans, these days remember.