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Hello friends knife lovers, 
Here is the last Take no Kami batch of 2012.
To begin with is what you can call a remix. This number 134 used to be number 101.
Ive already mounted this beautiful custom made blade by the Japanese master Ishii Machida once this spring. Somehow at the time, I sensed that my sculpture skills were not yet at their best, so I kept it. In the meantime as I improved my technique, I decided to mount it again last November, so that this blade gets the handle it deserves.
The sheath is made with the bottom part of a bamboo stem.
The handle, as usual, is made out of bamboo root. The ebony caped end is like an oriental calligraphy seal on which I engraved some bamboo foliage, sumie style.
Blade by Isshii Machida, 75mm, suminagashi damascus with a Boehler K990 edge, hand polished with emery powder.
Next is a small collaboration with a French maker named Christophe Mercier.
Christophe made me 3 exquisite little blades according to a design of mine and out of his home made suminagashi sanmai with a SC145 edge and damascus sides (90mcv8/75Ni8/110crv5 & Nickel).
Thanks to him I can pursue my quest of the « ideal » blade for my bamboo friction folders. The idea here is to have an extended ricasso in order to create a finger choil that enables you to maintain the blade not only from the top but also from the bottom. Combined with a lever that hides inside the handle it makes these frickies very secure as you actually hold the blade as much as the handle when the knife is open.
I tried different lengths of handle on each of the 3 knives, leaving the ricasso more or less bare.
On 135 the handle goes the most forward, allowing a greater ergonomics.
On 136 and 137 less so but the grip still is comfortable. The practical thing about having a bare ricasso is that when for instance you cut a fruit you dont get all the juice inside the pivot area.
135 & 137 are made out of black bamboo root.
136 out of normal bamboo root. The little symbol engraved at the ebony butt of the knife is the Chinese sign for bamboo (Zhu) in the ancient seal script.
Thanks for watching
Here is the last Take no Kami batch of 2012.
To begin with is what you can call a remix. This number 134 used to be number 101.
Ive already mounted this beautiful custom made blade by the Japanese master Ishii Machida once this spring. Somehow at the time, I sensed that my sculpture skills were not yet at their best, so I kept it. In the meantime as I improved my technique, I decided to mount it again last November, so that this blade gets the handle it deserves.
The sheath is made with the bottom part of a bamboo stem.
The handle, as usual, is made out of bamboo root. The ebony caped end is like an oriental calligraphy seal on which I engraved some bamboo foliage, sumie style.
Blade by Isshii Machida, 75mm, suminagashi damascus with a Boehler K990 edge, hand polished with emery powder.
Next is a small collaboration with a French maker named Christophe Mercier.
Christophe made me 3 exquisite little blades according to a design of mine and out of his home made suminagashi sanmai with a SC145 edge and damascus sides (90mcv8/75Ni8/110crv5 & Nickel).
Thanks to him I can pursue my quest of the « ideal » blade for my bamboo friction folders. The idea here is to have an extended ricasso in order to create a finger choil that enables you to maintain the blade not only from the top but also from the bottom. Combined with a lever that hides inside the handle it makes these frickies very secure as you actually hold the blade as much as the handle when the knife is open.
I tried different lengths of handle on each of the 3 knives, leaving the ricasso more or less bare.
On 135 the handle goes the most forward, allowing a greater ergonomics.
On 136 and 137 less so but the grip still is comfortable. The practical thing about having a bare ricasso is that when for instance you cut a fruit you dont get all the juice inside the pivot area.
135 & 137 are made out of black bamboo root.
136 out of normal bamboo root. The little symbol engraved at the ebony butt of the knife is the Chinese sign for bamboo (Zhu) in the ancient seal script.
Thanks for watching
