its alive, its aliiive!

[DannyinJapan]

I spotted these chopper knives in the japanese hardware store the other day, D2, actually, and I was thinking the weight and curve might just approximate the khukuri, in theory anyway...
It is called a nata, and they have different degrees of curve.

 

[ferguson]

Cool! Double as a straight razor?

Steve

 

[DannyinJapan]

No no, that thing is single ground and about 18 inches long!

 

[Josh Muller]

sometimes shaving an entire backs worth of hair with a dinky little straight razor gets a little tedius...

 

[Yvsa]

I spotted these chopper knives in the japanese hardware store the other day,

D2,

It is called a nata, and they have different degrees of curve.

"D2"???? Can/will you explain this further please Danny?

 

[DannyinJapan]

D2 is the japanese version of kmart or walmart/home depot...

 

[mrostov]

Don't remember off hand the site that was selling these Japanese made knives, but I found them to be very interesting.

 

[Nasty]

All very nice...what sort of costs???

 

[Ferrous Wheel]

I'd cold-cut the spine to meet the edge at an angle, and you;d have the japanese seax!

Nasty, those pictured later on are custom made in Japan, and you pay fer it. Think inn the 200-500 USD range. I beet Danny picked that other tool up fer 20 USD or less.

Keith

 

[mrostov]

Those japanese knives I posted, if memory serves me right, were a tad expensive.

 

[DannyinJapan]

i can get a D2 nata knife, about 16" and 1.5 lbs , for about 30$

 

[Daniel Koster]

neat-o knives...

That nata would make for a quick chopper...

 

[Nasty]

It'd make one heck of a weapon I suspect...

 

[Yvsa]

These tools are something else it appears!!!! Check 'em out with the link.

"Our Bamboo splitting Natas (hatchets) are superb for a variety of splitting and chopping jobs around the home, garden and bamboo grove. Campers, fishermen and hunters will also appreciate the razor sharp edge for cutting firewood, splitting kindling and other camp jobs. The blade is hand-forged from soft and hard steels, carefully tempered to Rockwell c63º by Japanese master craftsmen."

At 63 Rc they are gonna stay sharp for a long while unless severely mistreated but then it's gonna take some sharpening to get them back to where they were I'll bet.

 

[DannyinJapan]

if anybody wants one i can probably buy it and ship it for about 60$

 

[Josh Muller]

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cach...sh/special/hunt.htm+nata+knife&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

theres some nicely done diagrams describing the benefits of "chisel" ground bladesnear the bottom

 

[MacHete]

When you wrote "D2" I thought you meant the tool steel. How do you say "D2" in Japanese?

 

[Kismet]

I saw a film clip of the bamboo scaffolding workers, and their products on a high-rise building. A typhoon hit, the building went down, the scaffolding survived intact ! Amazing material, amazing craft.

I'll see if I can find a link.

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Asia/China/photo38548.htm

 

[DannyinJapan]

funny you should ask.
They pronounce it " day zoo"
it drives me crazy, i am an english teacher after all...

 

[Thomas Linton]

funny you should ask.
They pronounce it " day zoo"
it drives me crazy, i am an english teacher after all...

And "night zoo" would be . . .?