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New toy!
Bored, temporarily out of work, and with money to burn...I just ordered this bad boy 
Handmade, unfinished soft iron blade with a super-hard Aogami Super edge. Mr. Takeda doesn't use a template, so I have to send every knife I buy from him (this is the third) to a couple in Arizona who makes custom wooden sheaths before I can use them. It is a completely ridiculous end-to-end "artisian" process, but at the end of the day it's worth it,
