Masahiros with SpyderEdge?

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I just picked up a serrated Masahiro kitchen knife, and I could swear it's a SpyderEdge.

Is Masahiro connected to Spyderco somehow?
 
IIRC, the older plastic handled Spydie kitchen knives were made by Masahiro.

Bruceter
 
i believe MBS-26 (used in the kitchen knives and in the Catcheman (?)) is a Masahiro proprietary steel.
 
I understand that Masahiro made some of Spyderco's earlier Kitchen knives. I have a Santoku model along with a 6 inch blade serrated kitchen knife along with a little longer 7 inch ? kitchen knife.I bought these from Spyderco's outlet store back in the late nineties. EXCELLENT KNIVES! I read these knives are made with the MBS26 steel.
RKH
 
I just pulled on of my Spydie kitchen knives out and this is what it says on the blade of the Santuko:

"Made exclusively for Spyderco Inc USA by Masahiro in Seki Japan
MBS-26 High Carbon Stainless Steel.

Bruceter
 
Looks like there's indeed some kind of connection between Masahiro and Spyderco then.

They sell the Masahiros at a Norwegian hardware store chain. Straight up kitchen knives with full tang and black pakkawood scales, and there are at least 2 models with the SpyderEdge. The serrated one I have is a 21 cm chef's knife that I mainly use for cutting bread. Best bread knife I ever tried, even though I suspect it's not what it's designed for.

The blades don't say anything about steel quality other than "Molybdenum Vanadium Stainless Steel". The edge (on the plain edge knives) is not quite chisel ground, but is most definitely asymmetric.
 
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