I have to gain weight to carry this!

[Jin]

300 layers damacus blade of 12 inches length, 50mm width, 9mm thickness...
Lots of "meat" in this knife!!

(Don't know what I should use it for... )

 

[Grapevine]

Wow, that's nice. I normally don't like tantos but that one appeals to my tastes. Who's the maker? Where'd you get it? Give us a story.

 

[Jin]

Hello Grapevine,

Sorry for the late reply... life gets a bit busy recently...

About this "Big Mac" version of a tanto (is it really a "tanto"?) it is a production from a "granny" shop in Japan. The reason why I call it "granny" because the shop is currently owned by a 94 years old black smith (!). They produce mainly tranditional japanese knives and tools. They also make quite a few "japanese-ised" bowies and hunting knives too (these are really popular in Japan... in fact, so many Japanese blacksmiths are producing "japanese-ised" bowies these days).

This is the link to their homepage:
http://www.toyokuni.net/

The knife I showed appears in this particular page:

http://www.toyokuni.net/smkasu/index5.htm

(One bad news: their site is in Japanese only... )

 

[Will'em]

Originally posted by Jin
Hello Grapevine,

Sorry for the late reply... life gets a bit busy recently...

About this "Big Mac" version of a tanto (is it really a "tanto"?) it is a production from a "granny" shop in Japan. The reason why I call it "granny" because the shop is currently owned by a 94 years old black smith (!). They produce mainly tranditional japanese knives and tools. They also make quite a few "japanese-ised" bowies and hunting knives too (these are really popular in Japan... in fact, so many Japanese blacksmiths are producing "japanese-ised" bowies these days).

This is the link to their homepage:
http://www.toyokuni.net/

The knife I showed appears in this particular page:

http://www.toyokuni.net/smkasu/index5.htm

(One bad news: their site is in Japanese only... )

ROFLMFAO

they make japaneseised bowies and we make Americanized Tantos lol its just hilarious, cool knife btw

 

[ichor]

So.......how do you communicate with these folks for specifications, prices, ordering, shipping info, ......etc.?

 

[Jin]

I don't!

(I've just found something interest over the net... wanna share with friends here, that all! )

ps. I did order some interesting oriental knives via. an oversea (actually Hong Kong) dealer of Strider Knives... you may try http://www.striderknives.com/html/links.html for more info... (people in the "Supreme Co." speak some English... not perfectly sure about the rest...)