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THE LITTLE PEARL TANTO

all the makers has spotlighted in our Past Masters series, perhaps none were as low key and unassuming as Bob Lum (page 34). Known for his Americanized version of the Japanese tanto—a knife that as of today, about four decades later, has been reproduced by the hundreds of thousands if not millions—Lum was so unassuming that the argument

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