The Blue Steel Higonokami Folding Knife is as traditional as it gets! This Japanese pocket knife is hand-made by Kanekoma with a hand forged 3" folded Hitachi aogami Blue Steel blade.
This is a knife with none of those new-fangled features - no locking device, no corkscrew, what you see is what you get! A traditional Japanese folding knife that is proudly simple.
The brass handle starts off shiny, but will soon mellow to a lovely rich patina. The knife and blade feature delicately engraved Japanese characters.
The folding blade has a stiff action that will loosen with time - to retighten, simply give a sharp rap on the rivet with a hammer.
Specifications:
- 47g
- 170 x 6 x 18mm
- 109mm folded length
- 70mm blades
- Aogami Blue Paper steel
- Made in Miki, Japan
ABOUT HIGO KNIVES:
Niwaki's Higo knives are hand made by Kanekoma, 5th generation knife makers in Miki, Japan. Founded in 1894, early knives were called higonokami because a lot of customers were from Kumamoto, an area previously known as Higo.
In 1910 the name was registered, meaning only makers in the Miki region could use it, and Kanekoma are now the last of those makers.
