Interesting! This could explain why I was able to find them in Tokyo...![]()
Interesting! This could explain why I was able to find them in Tokyo...![]()
exactly...I've been on the waiting list for 3 years...
although to be honest I will probably pass...I've had 5 of these things and sold em off everytime....they are cool to look at but frankly..meh...WAY TOOO MUCH MONEY for what they are...
Japan Woodworker got in a small stash of his petty knives a month or two ago. When I called to ask about them, I talked to the person there who always seemed to know the inventory, Connie, and she told me that Hattori himself had made them recently, contradicting news that I had been given a year earlier that, I am sad to say, he had incapacitating lung cancer.
^ +1
I don't think he will allow his apprentices to make the KD's...they will probably end up the way that the Doi Hayate did/will....
Like I said before the KD is a beautiful knfe...very special but the performance is not on par with the looks....and...there is always Mr. Itou...who uses R2 steel....