Welcome to my knife shop😀 You will find new items here for sale most every week. I have found I am more productive and push myself further producing work to sell here on my website. Therefore I no longer take any kind of custom order or reserve items for people. I find it better to concentrate on making the very best quality work and be able to offer more items for sale. These days I use Instagram to show my working process, and I also use Instagram to give notifications of new stock, and to Auction one off items. I intend to add a fresh Mailing list for a simple notification of when new knives come in stock for those who do not use Instagram, which I will add here shortly.
270mm fullered KU damascus Gyuto
£1,375.00
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This is a completely and wonderfully functioning piece of art.
Combining my KU Damascus and deep textured forge fullers. This came out so nicely , with the pattern in the high contrast iron oxide and shiny Damascus with the texture and deep set fullers. The geometry came out very well too, with a relatively thin narrow bullet shaped convex bevel, a nice weight and stiffness thanks to the thick spine and rib of the fuller. Cuts with very little resistance.
This is made in a soft cladding Damascus of iron and nickel , a very long finishing process, which culminates in a water quench which allows iron oxide to form only on the iron. It’s a very hard iron oxide and nickel will not tarnish, so a very practical finish.
The combo doesn’t exactly pop on the bevel, due to how fine the pattern, but you can see the hazy nickel lines hiding in the kasumi, very beautiful in person and satisfying to polish further, a hard finisher will bring out more details. I will continue to polish with a Nakayama finger stone.
Handle is a simple but stunning cocobolo wa.
The forging of the fullers as well as the height and profile was done slowly under my power hammer by eye and feel, then cold forged, to get a very fine finish inside the fullers.
There are a couple of whoopsies that I don’t feel detract but need mentioning. A round spot of missing ku, I must have spilled a drop of something acidic on the blade. I have started a patina off on the spot and it will dull with further use. And the tail end of an inclusion between the core and cladding..which was on its way out grinding, but still visible as a darker line at a high polish. It won’t cause any harm if you don’t mind the “character” as the piece is so organic in style. I have included detailed photos to show.
Here are the specifications of this beast.
Blade length 275mm
Height 51mm
Taper 8mm to 1mm
Geometry heel 5mm to 1.5mm
Weight 203g
Balance heel plus 20mm
Handle in cocobolo, natural, very high grade stuff.
Ownership and maintenance with this deep fullered design. It is very easy to polish and work on the bevel, but it is worth putting some thin parcel tape on the blade to cover the mid vein, which can touch if conveying and working with plenty of mud.
Comes with international shipping with dhl and certificate.
Allow a couple of weeks for me to do the very final polish on this one, and be ready to be shipped.
The last of this batch of this Kurouchi in Damascus.
A huge Sujihuki, slicer. Very much made for the slice with a weight forward design compatible to a Gyuto. Gives effortlessly smooth controlled slicing action. With a nice height for knuckle clearance.
This is a mid weight in terms of geometry, but holds its thickness, taper is subtle. The lower bevel is very convex, a little more stout than a Gyuto but goes very very thin.
This was the ultimate challenge in this technique to get the iron oxide to form so evenly and with great contrast throughout the piece, all done during heat treatment. Very pleased how pretty it is.
A Beautiful deep hollow textured Suji. This is in the very thin ku Damascus stock, which I could not get to work before, but this time I did, in a beautiful subtle pool and eye pattern shining in the hard ku texture.
It is not as dramatic as the thicker stock, but it’s very beautiful nonetheless. I’m offering it at a discount as it felt a bit of a bonus.
The forging is mid weight, nice thick stiff spine and a mid thickness very convex strong lower, narrow bevel, shaped all the way into the edge with stones and finger stones, very smooth buttery cut.
Gorgeous old stock c105 at the core, high carbon steel made with no alloy. It’s tough enough to use at full hardness thanks to the steel being incredibly clean.
Knife comes with international shipping with dhl.
Duties and handling fees are included and pre-paid at my end for The EU and for the USA.
Here are the specifications
Blade length 269m
Height 43
Taper 7mm to 1.1mm
Weight 221g
Balance 25mm ahead of heel
Handle is a large slender wa in wenge, with a micro stainless spacer.
Soft ku Damascus clad, c05 core, water quenched, around 65hrc
Beautiful little beast of a knife, in the nice Devon wrought iron, with uber hard white 1 at the core.
I do like forging them in wrought a bit more chunky and leaving more bevel to polish and convex.
This one is workhorse chunky with a thin tip, time is spent tuning away any microbevel into the convex bevel which makes a heavier knife cut with a beautiful feeling.
This one is very nicely finished all round with a mid finger stone polish and a gorgeous tazzy Blackwood wa handle.
Here are the specifications.
Blade length 215mm
Height 50mm
Thickness 8mm to 1.2
Balance 25mm ahead of heel.
Weight 282g
Handle is premium Tasmanian Blackwood.
This price includes world shipping via DHL and pre-paid Tariffs/vat at my end to the States and EU. Don’t hesitate to purchase if you are from somewhere else, I will contact you for shipping instructions.
230mm Wrought Clad Gyuto- High grade Wa and polish.
£629.00
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Another Beautiful Workhorse in the wrought from a Devon Mill, super hard White 1 to the core is epic.
This one is a mid to heavy workhorse. It has a stonking thick 7-1mm spine taper, forged into the middle proportionally. It has a very convex wide bevel that goes all the way into the edge and into the shoulders. The bevel is close to fully polished with Nakayama natural stones.
The result is with the weight, the tip sails though everything with ease, the heel has that workhorse feel. A really good all rounder. It has that contro, that comes with the hefty stiff 285g knife with fine,y tuned geometry. Fantastic food release.
This one comes clad in a beautiful Australian hard wood wa, and a polished out bevel to show the gorgeous wrought.
Here are the specifications.
Blade 231mm
Height 51mm
Taper 7.5 to 1.2mm
Balance 15mm ahead of the heel.
Handle high grade wa in stab Australian hardwood.
Weight is 282g
This comes with international shipping with DHL, for the EU and USA, import fees are included.
By all means purchase from other parts of the world and I will email you for your shipping instructions.