Daisuke Nishida

Nishida San forges these beautiful knives in Kumamoto using White#1 steel completely by hand. Based in Kumamoto, he became a disciple to another blacksmith when he was 19 and after 9 years of training, in 2006, he went on his own way and set up his workshop.

He uses solely White #1 steel which is difficult to forge and it's said only the best blacksmiths can forge White #1 well. His methods are very traditional and he forges completely from scratch with no help from anyone except for the handles.