About Gan Craft
Gan Craft is a Japanese tackle maker built around the Jointed Claw, the multi-jointed S-motion swimbait that founder Takanori Hiraiwa introduced to the JDM bass market and that remains the brand's reference point. The lure catalog drives the rod program: Gan Craft designs blanks to load and cast its own oversized baits rather than general-purpose bass sticks. The bass rod line is the Killers-00 family, casting and spinning models tuned for swimbaits and big baits across a wide weight band, with bait-matched tapers such as the Dead Sword. Killers-00 Blue extends the same big-bait approach into saltwater. Offshore, Ocean Killers is a jigging line presented as a jig-to-rod system, with blanks that hold strong resistance to drive jig action while keeping fighting power, fitted with oversized Fuji SiC guides; Ocean Killers SLJ covers super light jigging at the lighter end. The Violence Jerk and Super Violence Jerk lines are eging (aori squid) spinning rods. Positioning is premium JDM: high-modulus carbon blanks, low-volume model counts, and application-specific tapers rather than broad-coverage families. The brand is widely regarded in the Japanese big-swimbait community, where the Jointed Claw established the s-motion glidebait category.
What Gan Craft is known for
Gan Craft is known first for the Jointed Claw, the jointed S-motion swimbait that defined the JDM big-bait category and anchors the brand's identity. On the rod side it is known for the Killers-00 family, casting and spinning blanks engineered specifically to cast and work heavy swimbaits and giant baits, with bait-matched tapers like the Dead Sword. Beyond bass, the brand carries offshore jigging blanks under Ocean Killers and its lighter Ocean Killers SLJ variant, plus the Violence Jerk and Super Violence Jerk eging spinning rods. The common thread is application-specific design tied to its own lures.