Product Details
Blade Length 4
Overall Length 8.5
Weight (oz) 6.1
Source Previously owned
Additional Specs
Knife Type Full Tang, Has Sheath, Tapered Tang
Blade Details Drop Point
Handle Material Metallic, Wood
About the Maker
Hattori, Ichiro
Ichiro Hattori is a renowned knife maker in the city of Seki, Japan. Seki is the most internationally well known of several cities famous in Japan for it’s history of cutlery and craftsmen going back some 800 years. He was born into a knife maker family and began his craft at the age of 18 in his father’s factory “Masahiro”, founded in 1932 and still one of Japan’s largest makers of culinary knives as one of the well known “3M”s (Masahiro, Masamoto, Misono). In 1971, Ichiro Hattori started his own business Hattori Hamono K.K. (Hattori Cutlery Co., Ltd.) to pursue his interest in sporting knives.