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Ok, I'm going to try my best at explaining who I'm looking for 
Long ago, at least 10-12 years ago, there was a guy that advertised in Blade magazine as a bladesmith. He was also featured in several articles on his creations. He was best known for his Japanese style designs, specifically tanto's, katana's and wakizashi's (he did other stuff as I recall though). As I recall he was in his 50's, had white hair, as lived somewhere out west/mid-west. It drives me crazy as I can actually picture his face in my head. He also had a signature mark that he put on every blade, I believe it was a kanji, "ha" for blade. I contacted him about a knife design I had via a letter, and he did in fact contact me back, and I believe we talked on the phone once or twice. One thing led to another and nothing ever came of it. About a month ago, I came across my old drawings and templates of said knife. I cannot for the life of me find the letter from him, or any other records of his name or address. I went out to a few different book stores and looked through every knife related publication I could find, page by page, to try and find him. IT'S KILLING ME! I know the info I've laid out is pretty vague, but I'm hoping that any old timers here might recognize something. This wasn't a gentleman that was around for a year or two as I recall...he was quite well known and well respected from what I remember. Where I'm going with this is I'd love to contact him again if he's still around and talk about finally making this knife. Any help at all would be great. Thanks!
Long ago, at least 10-12 years ago, there was a guy that advertised in Blade magazine as a bladesmith. He was also featured in several articles on his creations. He was best known for his Japanese style designs, specifically tanto's, katana's and wakizashi's (he did other stuff as I recall though). As I recall he was in his 50's, had white hair, as lived somewhere out west/mid-west. It drives me crazy as I can actually picture his face in my head. He also had a signature mark that he put on every blade, I believe it was a kanji, "ha" for blade. I contacted him about a knife design I had via a letter, and he did in fact contact me back, and I believe we talked on the phone once or twice. One thing led to another and nothing ever came of it. About a month ago, I came across my old drawings and templates of said knife. I cannot for the life of me find the letter from him, or any other records of his name or address. I went out to a few different book stores and looked through every knife related publication I could find, page by page, to try and find him. IT'S KILLING ME! I know the info I've laid out is pretty vague, but I'm hoping that any old timers here might recognize something. This wasn't a gentleman that was around for a year or two as I recall...he was quite well known and well respected from what I remember. Where I'm going with this is I'd love to contact him again if he's still around and talk about finally making this knife. Any help at all would be great. Thanks!
