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Producers introduce
1 Location - Fukui Prefecture
2 Name - Iwai Takeshi
3 store name - Iwai cutlery
4 profession - Blacksmith
5 Recommended Items - All
6 Date of Birth - 1973/2/26
7 constellation - Fish
8 motto - I'm the one and only. In heaven and on earth
My sticking to
Iwai's cutlery, and commitment making things?
In old-fashioned manual, I have been fabricated 1 chome 1 chome carefully in this forging, handmade. Cutlery is, in front of the furnace, which can reach one thousand degrees, in Japan unique traditional recipe to build hit the blacksmith's, unlike the kitchen knife that was stamped on the machine, and cut well if there is a sticky, very sturdy cutlery is. That amount, While it is hard to make, to the belief in the fact that it is "all fuckable thing to do on your own", and I'd like to stick to making things better.
Do you also received order-made?
Only because the old-fashioned traditional recipe, I want to cherish the things that you can. Because it is hand that is doing just father and two people is a second generation, a kitchen knife and knife, you can Otsukuri from one custom-made. In addition, your name will also be placed.
In production, the point that care?
Without the flow work, you work needs to confirm with certainty. Also, I is that it thorough temperature management. To do this, it is necessary to reliably grasp a place that can not be seen. How can that crowded placed in the solid fuel of coke, or "but when the other is out", not the only kind of timing to understand in the sense. The blacksmith, is one that a variety of tasks at once, but to understand in my own, be made to cherish one Ding one Ding, and thought that lead to making the longevity knife that combines the sharpness and durability you.
Producer's profile
From its inception, cutlery devoted more than 75 years!
Iwai Minamotomatsu's founder, under the Mr. Yamagata original blacksmith Jiro Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, after the fire apprenticeship, Sakai City of cutlery wholesaler, kitchen knife cuisine as exclusive craftsmen left Kaneyoshi, paper cutting knife, making the cloth cutting knife, etc. was. Lost everything in the war, after the war, and began the blacksmith in this land and moved to Takeo is a birthplace.
Second generation and is Takayuki Iwai After graduating from junior high school, learn Kaji Sakai under Mr. Minamotomatsu, seems himself learned the knowledge of Echizen beating cutlery. In addition, it performs peddling about 10 years from 40 years old, also from the people that use the knife I was able to learn the knowledge.
Mr. length Iwai is a three-generation also, went into training while attending junior high school after graduation, at night high school. Currently, as the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry designated traditional crafts Echizen hitting Cutlery Traditional craftsmen, as one of the few craftsmen that inherits the steel with-fire-polished-forging technology in Echizen cutlery industry, not cutlery only, was applied its technology it is engaged in the development of cutlery and new products.
Industry youngest 35-year-old, tradition in two generations first parent-child craftsman!
Length's third generation Iwai, it becomes traditional craftsman in the 35-year-old industry youngest, Iwai cutlery became a workshop that there is a traditional craftsman in the second generation first child in active duty. Iwai's parent and child, and finish from forging, performs all to sell consistently, household cooking commercial cooking knives and special knife from the kitchen knife, crafted for and Crafts for cutlery, raw Hanabasami, Karikomi鋏, forest for cutlery (sickle, hatchet ), I have a wide range of production until the paper knife. Currently, Mr. length is, as one of the few craftsmen that inherits the steel with-fire-polished-forging technology in Echizen cutlery industry, not cutlery only, you have the challenge of the development of accessories and accessories that take advantage of the wind ripples floating in the cutlery .
Fused old and new ones, of new blacksmith products
Length who speak that "from the time of the elementary school, had naturally decided to take over the blacksmith". Every day, from 7.30 am until 6:00 at night, I will Irasshai working hard to manufacture in the workshop. Once a week, it seems to day-to-day production spree in positions that do not rest or rest.
It is very, in my word, "I am naturally workshop. When a hot summer, but there is also when you go up early, have fun even when something like I thought was possible, naturally ..." was returned the reply that.
Only because Iwai's its natural stance, fused old and new ones, might can a new blacksmith products.
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