Custom Integral Damascus Santoku

Integral Raindrop Damascus Santoku

Curly Hawaiian Koa with carbon fiber inlay.

Two Stainless Damascus Gyutos Headed for the Store 8/31/2018

Custom Damascus Integral Banno Bunka

Banno Bunka integral in Midnight Ripple Damascus and Ironwood Burl.

Custom Damascus Usuba Kamagata

Custom integral raindrop damascus usuba kamagata. Carbon fiber handle inlayed with yellow mammoth tooth and pure nickel capped with a faceted damascus butt cap. The saya is carbon fiber milled to matched usuba grind and lined with supple pig skin. The saya is asymmetrical to match the blade and inlayed with matching mammoth. Feather damascus keeper pin keeps the blade snug and protected.

Custom Stainless Damascus San Mai Gyuto

I forged this custom gyuto with a stainless raindrop damascus jacket and a stainless core. The handle is carbon fiber blue mammoth tooth and spalted jatoba. The saya is full carbon fiber with a leather liner and a faceted titanium keeper pin.

Custom Stainless Damascus Gyuto

I forged the chevron damascus blade from CPM154 and AEB-L. The stainless chevron gyuto is handled in a stainless damascus bolster, carbon fiber spacers, Tasmanian blackwood, and capped with stainless damascus. The saya is curly claro walnut with a pigskin liner and features a stainless dammy keeper pin.

Integral Damascus Yanagiba

Custom Western Damascus Integral

225mm, 375 layer damascus integral gyuto with a nickel silver spacer and an ironwood handle.

Holiday Treat #4

Here's a video from my perspective using the power hammer to forge weld and draw out a billet. This weld a draw totals the layer count at 184 with the next session totaling 1104 layers.

Holiday Treat #3

Here is the start to a Bold Midnight Ripple Damascus gyuto and parer:

The completed custom parer and gyuto:

Holiday Treat #2

Up next is a damascus gyuto/chef, damascus petty, and a monosteel Western integral. The two matching damascus blades will be receiving carbon fiber and ironwood handles. The Western integral will be getting a carbon fiber handle.

Damascus petty and gyuto with an integral Western gyuto.

The damascus gyuto ready for the carbon fiber and ironwood shoes.

Holiday Treat #1

Final step in rounding the coil and spine is using a little shoe polish action with 1k and then 2k paper.

The core steel, 52100 high carbon is laminated with a jacket totaling 750 layers creating a super fine damascus pattern. This will be available for sale.

Custom Titanium and Carbon Fiber Moribashi

New Store Knives

The first gyuto is a hand forged damascus integral handled in rosewood burl. This gyuto is one of a kind. Available 14 October.

The second gyuto is a multi-bar damascus featuring two "W" patterns for a unique combination of swirls and curls. The blade is handled in my mokume-gane and a stunning piece of rosewood burl to compliment the damascus. Available 14 October.

Start of a Honyaki Damascus Integral Gyuto

Custom Damascus and Mokume-gane Kiritsuke Work in Progress

Exhibition grade rosewood burl.

Copper and nickel silver for the mokume-gane.

A billet that I forge welded and is currently at 88 layers of 52100 and 15N20.

The bar is cut up in seven sections for a layer count of 616.

The seven layers have been forge welded and cut down the center to create the blade pattern.

The two billet sections are forge welded back together and forged out to a basic shape.

I annealed, trimmed, and gave the blade a quick etch to check the pattern.

The blade has been heat treated and the ura has been ground on the backside.

Working on the front.

The blade has been finish ground, stone work to double check everything, and hand finished. After hand finishing, the blade was etched and my makers mark was applied.

I wanted to have a matching pattern for the bolster and butt cap so I made mokume-gane to match the feather pattern.

The finished kiritsuke.

Feather mokume-gane polished.

Damascus Yanagiba and Gyuto Set

Wave damascus, mokume, 5720 year old bog oak, and snake wood for this set.

Damascus Gyuto WIP Video

Seattle Knife Show

I'll be at the Seattle International Knife Show this weekend, if you're in the area come by and say hi.

I'll have a couple of single bevels, suji, banno bunka, nakiri, a Western gyuto and a few other pieces.

Show information: http://bladegallery.com/shopcontent.asp?type=2015KnifeShow

Carbon Fiber and G10

Projects in the near future:

250mm Western gyuto in 52100 with kurouchi/polish finish with carbon fiber handle and saya. 

Steak knives in AEB-L with carbon fiber handles and sayas.

210mm gyuto in 52100 with kurouchi/polish finish with G10 handle and saya.