Many of our knives are made completely by hand by renowned blacksmiths from various parts of Japan. It has been an honor to be able to visit some of them and be able to document parts of the production process. This is not an easy job, not by a longshot. The workplace is dark, hot and the work entails alot of hard manual labor. Its very impressive to see the even quality that they collectively produce day after day, year after year.

Here are images from some of the blacksmiths that we have visitid over the years.