Tanabe Tatara 315mm Sakimaru Yanagi Tamahagane Tanaka / Shimizu with Saya Sakai The book is filled with Twitty contends

Tanabe Tatara 315mm Sakimaru Yanagi Tamahagane Tanaka Shimizu with Saya Sakai The book is filled with Twitty contends The book is filled with more than 500 hand drawn illustrations by Wearing that explain every operation in a hand tool shop The blade has a nice distal taper and is ground thin behind the edge but with just enough thickness along the hammer marked face of the blade to keep the blade rigid Tamahagane steel is easy to forge laminate where hard steel is supported by softer tougher iron or mild steel which has become an integral part of Japanese blade making This knife is hand forged in Sakai by dentoukougeishi blacksmith Yoshikazu Tanaka and hand ground by Masaya Shimizu also in Sakai