Thread: Chiyozuru Korehide kiridashi knives for sale

Soatoz,
Looks very nice! but I would never be able to afford one.
Why is it "taboo" to sell his tools? Surely He makes the tools to sell? and his fans have bought his tools Someone has sold them somewhere along the road
Somethings about Japanese I will never understand

Edit: Heres mine.Cost $5 from the diy shop

You was ripped



This is a knife

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Originally Posted by underused

Soatoz,
Looks very nice! but I would never be able to afford one.
Why is it "taboo" to sell his tools? Surely He makes the tools to sell? and his fans have bought his tools Someone has sold them somewhere along the road
Somethings about Japanese I will never understand

Edit: Heres mine.Cost $5 from the diy shop

This knife for $5??? Why?? It looks quite nice one.

It's a long story about Korehide, but he didn't make tools to sell... If he did he wouldn't have spent 200 times more effort and sell for 100 times more price. That's not business. Please read the Blacksmith sticky.

Someone has sold them, but definitely not through computer net work to unknown buyers. So, this is I think the first time in the history Korehide's tool has been sold over the net. Maybe in the States? I don't know. But it is funny Japanese swords that cost much more than these knives are sold on the net... (contradicting hey? well life is all about contradiction!)

As for the taboo,,, if you have seen samurai movies or something, you might have heard that the sword is more important than the owner's life? Or if someone touches his sword (the handle or the sheath) bushi (samurai in more common Japanese) considers it as a challenge to death?

Japanese tend to attach soul to their belongings, especially if it's something very special, so if you sell such tools, literally you are selling your soul. So, these super dooper special artifacts should be given but not sold for money. (Do you get it??) But of couse this kind of idea has become a ritual, since people aren't like ancient samurais anymore.

I being Japanese I understand this kind of sense of value, so whenever my friend asks me to sell my creations, I either say No, or if they really seem to want it I give it to them.

Funny insn't it?

And thanks so much for posting your knife. It loosens up this post a lot!!!

Originally Posted by soatoz

To give you a rough idea, each of them are about the price of a small automobile.

I gather we are not talking about Tonka Toys prices...

Since this is an unusual sale, related to Japanese tools and is more a curiosity than a sales pitch, we'll leave it here. Normally though, items for sale should be posted in Buy, Sell and Swap.

Thanks for the explanation Soatoz but I still dont understand it I can understand, that in times long ago, that was the Japanese way, but not today. As I see It today, it all seems to be about money and profit. Obviously there are still master blacksmiths with the old mindset, but for fans (who have bought his wares) to discourage the selling of them is a big contradiction
I understand the about the effort put into the work of these blacksmiths. Japanese call it soul or spirit.
Anyway...the $5 marking knife it works well, it marks lines, its sharp. There was a few to choose from. I took the cheaper otion as usual... oneday I might get some good gear
cheers

Da~~~~~~~~~~~hahaha!
I love all these replies I'm getting. Keepem comin boys!!
Let ME put some photos of a knife as well!!!
This one I've just ordered couple days ago, and guess what he told me. It takes about 1 year he says... I'll be selling these one year from now so anyone interested stay tuned





By Hinoura Tsukasa from Sanjyo Niigata.

Originally Posted by Groggy

I gather we are not talking about Tonka Toys prices...

Since this is an unusual sale, related to Japanese tools and is more a curiosity than a sales pitch, we'll leave it here. Normally though, items for sale should be posted in Buy, Sell and Swap.

Oh~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I laughed so hard on this one,, tears are dropping..

Nice one Groggy.

And thanks for letting this stay here! I doubt this will be anything like a sale...

Perhaps the Japanese blacksmiths need to look on Ebay more often , in order to get really interesting ideas for their knives. I think this one is called the Dragon Molester or some such thing.

Originally Posted by willie

Perhaps the Japanese blacksmiths need to look on Ebay more often , in order to get really interesting ideas for their knives. I think this one is called the Dragon Molester or some such thing.

I think the Japanese make some very practical knives. What the heck would anyone do with that thing? The only possible use I can see for that is, well, ... I dunno.

What would you use it for?

Self-mutilation? Not necessarily deliberate, either...

Originally Posted by Groggy

I think the Japanese make some very practical knives. What the heck would anyone do with that thing? The only possible use I can see for that is, well, ... I dunno.

What would you use it for?

I would use it as a vehicle, enabling me to join in the spirit of flippancy
alive in this thread.