I recently ordered a couple of knives from Shin Watanabe. He makes hand-made cooking knives in Japan. When I receive them, I'll post a mini-review. From what I have been able to gather, he makes high quality stuff at very reasonable prices considering they are hand-made. He also has different price/quality ranges from basic to professional.

There's not a bunch of information on them, but I have yet to find someone unhappy with his products. If anyone has any experience with them, please feel free to post it in this thread.