ibuki wa handle custom knife making kit for beginners Daisuke Nishida white #1 steel Gyuto 180mm

Let’s try to make a custom knife with a hand forged blade. To find a knife that perfectly fits your grip is to build it yourself. Please make your self custom knife making with this kit. The blade is made by Mr. Daisuke Nishida.

The knife is forged by Mr. Daisuke Nishida and is one of the highest grade, superb examples of Japanese knives, using Yasuki white 1 steel.
Daisuke NIshida mainly focus to make by hand-forged in the traditional way, so he hasn't make knives made of containing blade material , as it has been done for hundreds of years in Japan.Also his factory who make blade edging,making handle and custom knife making are integrated manufacture.

-- Item detail -- approx size and weight 
Gyuto double edged knife
Blade length 182mm, Total length 280mm,Blade width 47mm, Blade thickness 3.6 to 1.4 mm,
Tang length 100mm, Tang width 13.5mm, Tang thickness 4 to 1.5 mm, 112g

-- Material --
*Blade: white 1 steel, base:soft iron, double edged *heat treated and Sharp edged blade
*Black smith, Daisuke Nishida 
*Construction: San Mai, hand-forged in the traditional way
Note: There are some tiny rust and crack on body steel and tang part, it's not defective. Japanese traditional Kurouchi finish.
*approx size and weight 
A brand new, Made in Japan
*Price is include a knife and a wooden handle

- wood blank detail --
Material: Bombay black wood *wood grain varies *natural wood, non coating 

The wood is very very hard, water-resistant, antibacterial material, strength and good hand touch wood. The hardest wood in Japan is Hardly warped, providing strength and resistance to aging, so it is used as expensive furniture and fountain pens.

Note: The Bombay black wood has a greater specific gravity than other woods.  Size: Total length 151mm, width 35.5mm, thickness 21.5mm 
*hole size: total length 75mm, width 8.5mm, thickness 4.6mm 
Weight: 88g
*note:*As it's a natural wood  so it has a tiny scratchs, clacks.

Please adjust your self its shape perfectly fitting for your tang, as a hole of a wood is cut a tang shape.
*Note:
This kit is need to be attach a blade to a handle by yourself. Need a epoxy resin or a bond. Please refer to following page.
How to attach a tang to a ready-made wa handle for biginners

Japanese Tansetsu ancient Warikomi techniques
Japanese traditional techniques of knife making from forge welding (the process of hammering and forging steel and soft iron) to finishing, Forged soft iron steel are split with a chisel and core blade of Japanese Yasuki Hagane steel was buried. Mr. Daisuke Nishida is one of the very few blacksmiths who has a skills of  Japanese Tansetsu ancient Warikomi techniques.