![]() ![]() Ichiro Hattori’s skilled craftsmanship is respected not just in Japan but by many knife makers around the world. Hattori also makes the Nenox series of Stainless knives for the Nenohi brand. The few Japanese style (wabouchou) models that were made were not in the traditional carbon steels but in the Cowry-X powder steel. (HD Series VG10 Nickel Stainless 63 layer damascus)Ī Damascus series made in collaboration with Ryusen, no longer available.Ī series based on a design submitted by members of the former kitchen knife subforum of Knife Forums. No longer made and considered one of the most sought after culinary knives by collectors. (KD Series Cowry-X Nickel Stainless Damascus) Ichiro Hattori developed the Nickel Stainless Damascus and holds a patent on the Laminated Steel Product. While he refrained from making culinary knives for many years so as not to conflict with his family business he has made three lines of cooking knives as well. Hattori has made knives using a wide variety of steels both Carbon and Stainless over the last 45 years, but in recent years his work has centered around laminates using VG10 and high performance powder steels like 3G(SGPS) and Cowry-X. And as he only produces occasional limited runs Hattori knives are invariably always difficult to acquire. (A.Marfione “Troodon” using a Cowry-X Sanmai Damascus Blade by Hattori.)Īs word of the quality and fit and finish of Hattori made knives increased, he began marketing knives under his own brand in 1993 which are in high demand by collectors from around the world. Russell One Hand Knife with Cowry-X Damascus Hattori also made the Cowry-X Damascus blades that were used in folders by other makers:Ī.G. (Fallkniven Northern Lights NL1 THOR and Cold Steel Trail Master Sanmai III) Hattori has also provided his Cowry-X damascus blades for use by the custom knife maker Anthony L Marfione (Microtech) as well. While most of his OEM work is now historical, Hattori still manufactures all of the fixed blade knives for Fallkniven of Boden Sweden, and several of the larger Sanmai Mai III knives for Cold Steel Inc. Hattori only manufactured the high end quality models for his overseas customers, a practice still continued to this day. Knives made for Cold Steel, Cutlery Shop, SOG Hattori also made a number of models for many other companies such as Parker, Beretta, Al Mar Knives, Katz, Junglee, Jet-Aer Corp (G96 brand), Tekna, Valor Corp Miami, and The Cutlery Shoppe’s Gryphon brand. Hattori also made four Vietnam commemorative knives for Boker of Germany which were marketed only in Europe. These along with other Seki made SOGs are in high demand as collectibles. Hattori made the S1 and S2 bowies from 1986 until 2005 when SOG Knives moved their production from Seki Japan to Taiwan. Perhaps the most well known knives made by Hattori are the fighting bowies for SOG Specialty Knives of Santa Monica California, which were reproductions of a design originally created by Conrad Ben Baker for MACV-CISO Special Forces operations during the Vietnam war. This was designated Browning model 3816 Double Edged Damascus Hunter and was produced for a mere two years 1984/85 before rising costs forced it’s termination in 1986/87. In 1983 Browning planned to create a limited edition damascus knife and Ichiro Hattori was involved in the creation of a knife made using Stainless Steel and Nickel Silver forge welded in layers. Browning also had Hattori make their classic Sportsman series of fixed and folding hunting knives such as the 3718 and 506. Knife companies starting in the 1970s when Peter Kershaw contracted with him to produce the 10×0 series of fixed blades such as the Deerhunter, Elkhunter, Moosehunter series as well as the classic 1050 Folding Field, and the Model 1070 Trooper and Special Agent daggers as well. Ichiro Hattori’s name is well known among those in the knife industry for his OEM work for major U.S. (Hattori Cutlery Co., Ltd.) to pursue his interest in sporting knives. In 1971, Ichiro Hattori started his own business Hattori Hamono K.K. 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). 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. Ichiro Hattori (Born 1939- 服部 維知郎)is a renowned knife maker in the city of Seki, Gifu Prefecture Japan.
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