Engrave it on the tang! Along with the rest of the kanji, maybe even numbered! Just leave the blade north of the tang clean please so I don’t have to flatten crispy chiseled bits to give it a full stone polish
@ian specialsAlso, have y’all decided on what the handle will look like?
maybe.Also, have y’all decided on what the handle will look like?
no. heheWait… we talking handles? I have opinions.
Yeah! JoBone specializes in handles, unlike a certain knife maker in Sweden. He makes knives also!maybe.
no. hehe
Anyway folks, just relax and trust the process. I have supremely elegant taste and @JoBone knows what he's doing.
....maybe someone will sell theirs for what they bought it for.
I know I know wishful thinking but I've seen crazier things happen!
But still from the New Mexico prefecture, right?I heard the plan changed to cleavers.
Nobut wouldn’t you expect Tanaka to forge all the knives in one batch then ship them off to Myojin who would then sharpen them all similarly
How would you guys feel if the Massdrop knife looks like this? I would be stoked.
Am very jelly of him. Very lucky to have 2 vintage carbons from Tanaka but having them clad in wrought...hngggThat knife is not the massdrop. Pics of the massdrop sample were already posted and it's blue 1, not vintage Swedish steel and the cladding is modern wrought, not vintage wrought. Mark (knife.knackery) is a big collector and pretty well connected and lives in Japan so he is able to buy these special one off pieces. It definitely costed way more than 800 bucks.
I agree. I like the Massdrop more.Am I the only one who thinks the rentetsu ones look pretty different from our drop? More busy, contrasty, 'staticky' appearance vs the cloudier, more subtle appearance of the massdrop sample ones on the last page. Maybe I'm overstating the distinction but I think our massketeers landed on something that stands out even as more wrought-type claddings are showing up in Japanese knives.
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