Brands
Kansei Matsuno
Kansei Matsuno (1950~)
He lives in Gifu City near Seki city.
His works are very detailed and Beautiful.
His folding blade replica knives of Loveless are innovative.
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Koji Hara
A native of Japan, Koji Hara was born in 1949 in Imari City, and is one of the most traveled of Japanese knifemakers, attending shows throughout his home country as well as over the United States and Europe. When he began making his first knives in 1988, they were his versions of Bob Loveless designs. […]
Seizo Imai
Seizo Imai is a so skillfull custom knife maker. We are worried about that he is not known in the world because he had never attended any exhibition like the Blade show and so on. But we do know that Mr. Seizo have been making a number of high grade custom knife replicas of Loveless, Jess Horn’s knives, and old […]
Takeshi Saji
Takeshi Saji, hand-forged knife maker was born in 1948 in Fukui-Pref in Japan. The place is known as a knife city for famous Uchihamono. (means Hammer forged knives).
At the age of 44, Mr. Saji won a honorable title such as a traditional craftsman.
He produces traditional Japanese style field knives as well as Western-style knives by […]
Red Orca
A hand-forged knife manufacture based in Kochi-Prefecture Japan.
Red Orca is well known for the hand-forged knives created by the method called ”Koufuse Tsukuri” with fine Japanese high carbon steels (Yasuki hagane) such as White Steel (Shirogami) or Blue Steel (Aogami)
They have been producing knives by using Japanese sword making technique to create the blades that can endure in tough […]
TSUGE
Tsuge brand knives are designed by a Japanese famous Author/Journalist Mr. Hisayoshi Tsuge.
He was born in 1942 in Aichi-Prefecture in Japan. While he was a student of Keio University Japan,he traveled to Africa and joined the Katanga mercenary forces to fight in Congo civil war and joined French foreign legion afterwards.
In 1970’s he was working for […]
SUWADA
The initiation of SUWADA Blacksmith Works, Inc. dates back to 1926. And the establishment is in 1974. It is in Sanjo, Nigata pref., famous as a city of cutlery like Seki city in Japan.
SUWADA’s motto is that the equipments to create beauty must be beautiful by themselves, must be lovely goods and must be genuine by […]
