The missing part of the translation is:
"All models have a full tang, some of them even a tapered full tang ..."
This happens to be exactly the model I ordered last week (should be waiting for me in the shop here in Sweden by now). This model wasn't in stock then, but three others were, and handling those was enough for me to decide I wanted it.
If you go to the second or third most expensive district in Tokyo (I didn't find any damascus knives on the street where they specialize in kitchen/restaurant equipment), knifes of about the same class are more expensive than what we have to pay for the Hattoris here in Sweden, so the price didn't deter me much at all.
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Urban Fredriksson
www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/
"Smooth and serrated blades cut in two entirely different fashions."
- The Teeth of the Tyrannosaurs, Scientific American, Sep 1999
"All models have a full tang, some of them even a tapered full tang ..."
This happens to be exactly the model I ordered last week (should be waiting for me in the shop here in Sweden by now). This model wasn't in stock then, but three others were, and handling those was enough for me to decide I wanted it.
If you go to the second or third most expensive district in Tokyo (I didn't find any damascus knives on the street where they specialize in kitchen/restaurant equipment), knifes of about the same class are more expensive than what we have to pay for the Hattoris here in Sweden, so the price didn't deter me much at all.
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Urban Fredriksson
www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/
"Smooth and serrated blades cut in two entirely different fashions."
- The Teeth of the Tyrannosaurs, Scientific American, Sep 1999
