Mr. Aoki putting on handles on traditional Japanese knives

Suisin’s founder and president Aoki putting on handles on traditional Japanese knives. Adding handles on knives is very tricky. You have to heat the neck of the blade, then alternate burning the blade into handle then removing it. If the handle heats and expands too quickly or too much, the delicate buffalo horn bolster will crack.

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