Japanese Handmade
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- TheBlueOne
Kitchen knives still made the old fashion way.
- ********0
Fading art form.
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- Hoax0
Probably sound like a massive gay but I've been dying to buy some sort of nice hand made kitchen knife for ages. Just can't justify the expense at the moment.
- Not Gay.TheBlueOne
- Yeah, there is NOTHING gay about a quality set of knives.MondoMorphic
- acescence0
my old roommate got married to a japanese girl and her father gave him the family sword, handmade hundreds of years ago. pretty amazing thing to hold.
- Awesome. I wish I got a sword from my father-in-law.TheBlueOne
- ok_not_ok0
Forward to 1 min.
- ********0
There is discovery doc about swords and shows the same guy doing his thing in detail
- tkmeister0
I was gonna buy one the last time I was there but I ended up buying Urushi dishware. I will probably go find a really good kitchen knife the next time I go.
- Sandder0
I want one....
- non0
Fuck japan, brooklyn is where its at.
- TheBlueOne0
Sure non, a country that has been producing the finest steel blades in human history for over five centuries vs. some hipster craft shop in Brooklyn?
I'm I think not.- I was joking.non
- As you can see in the little comment bubble, over this one, I own a Mac knife.non
- And joel makes really nice knives. I would'nt call it "'hipster craft".non
- I know I was being curmudgeonly on purpose. It was all an act. And besides, I take every available opening to rant on hipsters.TheBlueOne
- to rant on hipsters.TheBlueOne
- jacklalane0
I use a MAC, not handmade but still Japanese
http://www.mac-international.com…- Same here, but find it to be too lightweight and brittle. I guess thats the price you pay for sharpness (brittle).non
- miesvan0
Yoshindo Yoshihara
