*Ryuichi "Ryu" Kawamura knife

chuko · Feb 28, 2016

*Ryuichi "Ryu" Kawamura Custom Knife. This is a beautifully styled Split Back Wharncliffe Whittler knife by Ryu enhanced by the engraving of Master Engraver Jon Robyn. This knife features a Wharncliffe master blade and secondary pen and coping blades, jigged bone handle, escutcheon with gold inlay and game birds engraved on each bolster with gold inlayed bordering.

John took some great photos of this one and I wanted to share. Anyone else with some of Ryu's work please post. This is my only one.
Charles

black mamba · Feb 28, 2016

Charles, what a beauty! I really like the added bling.

supratentorial · Feb 28, 2016

Beautiful knife, Charles. I believe his nickname is Ryu (with a "u"). He is one of my favorite custom knife makers.

Sowbelly Whittler
3 blade slip joint folder
Blade material : ATS-34
Handle material : Stainless steel / stag
Blade length : main blade 2 3/8" (60mm), sub blade 1 1/2" (38mm) each
Closed length : 3 3/8" (86mm)

Swell-center Wharncliffe Whittler
3 blade slip joint folder
Blade material : ATS-34
Handle material : Stainless steel / old jigged bone
Blade length : main blade 2 3/8" (60mm)
sub blade 1 7/16" (37mm)
Closed length : 3 3/8" (85mm)
handle : flat bevelled edge

Cattle Knife
Type : 3 blade slip joint folder
Blade : ATS-34
Bolster/Handle : Stainless steel / stag
Blade Length : 2 3/4" (70mm), 2 1/8" (54mm)each
Closed Length : 3 5/8" (92mm)

chuko · Feb 28, 2016

Jake: I thought I had seen another of the swell center whittlers. Nice collection you have and thanks for the correction, I've made the edits.
Charles

BigBiscuit · Feb 28, 2016

Beautiful knives. I've admired his work for a while now.

mike Berkovitch · Feb 28, 2016

Masterpieces

Mike

Mason Knives · Feb 28, 2016

Beautiful work, your both very lucky!

Ryouchijtx · Feb 28, 2016

Beautiful knives all. Ryuichi's work is some of my favourite and he also finds the best stag available in my opinion.

Here's a thread on him from the past that this could be merged into to showcase his work.

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/858962-Ryuichi-Kawamura-Knives

Carboniferous · Feb 28, 2016

Man, those patterns are really incredible. Nice classical patterns taken to an extreme while remaining really tasteful.

KBA · Feb 28, 2016

Wondeful knives! :thumbup: I have always thought that the Swell-center Wharncliffe Whittler with a nail file as a secondary would make a great gents carry.

Stand Straight · Feb 29, 2016

The Sowbelly Whittler with the stag is my favorite. Outstanding!

Steven65 · Feb 29, 2016

I love his knives particularly his lock backs. Here are my two.........

stezann · Feb 29, 2016

Seriously, a lot of interesting details on those knives. Incredibly thin grinds on the blades...look at the microbevels!! :thumbup:

*Ryuichi "Ryu" Kawamura knife

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