(Left) Drop point hunter / Nobuo Fukuda of
In the winter of 1953, a sailor steps into an outdoor equipment store to buy a knife. Unfortunately, I didn’t put the item I wanted, but it can be said that history moved at that time. This guy made a knife by hand with the DIY spirit of “If so, make it yourself”.
Of course, there is no large-scale equipment. So he came up with a manufacturing method called the stock and removal method, which cuts a board, makes a prototype, and shapes it with a file (this is the standard for custom knife manufacturing that continues to this day). The knives made in this way, which are both practical and beautiful, are now sold in stores and quickly become popular. It seems that there are even collectors now. Yes, he is the late Robert Waldorf Loveless, the eternal legend of the custom knife world.
Some Japanese people are recognized by such loveless people. The late Too Fukuda, the second generation of Fukuda Knife Manufacturing Co., Ltd. in Seki City, Gifu Prefecture, is the “city of swordsmiths”. Mr. Noboru, who started making knives by launching his brand
Many people think that knives are industrial products. But if you get the chance, try holding a custom knife. Hand-crafted by a single craftsman, it is incomparable to mechanical products in terms of sharpness, familiarity with the hand, comfort, and aesthetics. Here is the figure of the far north of the “knife as a tool”.
It takes so many tools to make a custom knife with the stock and removal method.
Loveless and Noboru working in the workshop. Loveless seems to have received a great deal of inspiration from Mr. Noboru in terms of design, and he later commented on Mr. Noboru. According to him, “Japanese people are good at appealing to the eyes.”
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