Michihamono is a small maker of carving knives and chisels in Miki City, Hyōgo, Japan's traditional home of blacksmithing and hardware. The company began as a subcontractor making sickles and gradually turned its skills to carving tools, which are now its speciality.
Michihamono tools are used for an unusually wide range of crafts: carving Buddhist statues and Noh masks, Kamakura-bori lacquerware, woodblock printing, seal engraving and even eraser-stamp carving. Its high-speed steel blades are heat-treated by specialist firms, and each tool passes through several craftsmen in turn, from shaping and grinding the blade to fitting the handle and final inspection.
Alongside its carving tools, Michihamono makes the Hiyokko range of sickles and runs CARVY, an antenna shop in Tokyo. Its tools suit both beginners and professional carvers.
HSS Shinobi Knife - Right
HSS Shinobi Knife - Right
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This beautiful tool can pull double duty as a marking or a carving knife. It's blade is ground with a laminated HSS cutting edge similar to a kiridashi profile with a hollow-ground back.
This gives the knife one flat reference to your work or square, and a fantastic cutting edge.
The shape of this knife varies slightly compared to "traditional" kiridashis in that the curved spine of the blade orients the cutting edge very close to parrellel with the handle - hence it's adaptability to carving jobs.
Arriving to you with a beautiful veg tan leather sheath and a black paracord handle wrap, the Shinobi is the perfect ally for your next project.
Overall length: 200mm
Cutting edge length: 70mm