Just about a year ago I contacted Mr. Chris Bowen about a potential project to have a tanto made for me and my family. I wanted a blade in the Gassan tradition to study their ayasugi hada and Chris was able to set everything up with Enomoto Sadahito in Japan. The projection was one year and Chris updated me with the progression as the blade went from the initial forging to shirasaya and then to final polish. I didn't get any pictures   but in the end that really added to all the suspense  . The