this is a gyuto. 3 layer san-mai hocho. Handforged. mountings and sheath of olive wood. the steel inside is hypereutectoid (1,45%carbon content) very pure very fine . I got it from Achim Wirtz in Germany. the iron on the outside of the blade is butter iron from Holland. It has 0% carbon.
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this little friction folder is one of a kind after an old kind of knife that has been made in France for the last 20 centuries . I made it for a friend. The blade is 1,4% carbon damascus completely worked by hand. the knife measures about 8cm opened, so it may not be called big. the handle is out of one crazy piece of mouflon horn from Sardinia. bird´s eye bushings are brass the axle/blade pin is stainless steel.
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I designed and realised this dagger as a masterpiece to celebrate my 10 years as a full time custom knifemaker. this is a composite damascus blade and mountings with intricate multiple blade geometry changing from hollow grind to convex to a reinforced point (cirah bonk) around a central fuller. composite damascus because I used a core damascus of about 0,7%C with a double covering of soft springy damascus of about 0,4%C and a nickel...
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I made this sword on demand for a lady. I had to take measures to be able to work on anthropometric data. it is all silver, damascus, fossilized walrus tooth, lime wood and salmon skin after old danish/north german swords from circa 300AD/ end of roman imperium. so she(the sword) may be called a spatha. it is typically mounted after the fashion of these days with an I type hilt. the blade is a hard core of damascus with average...
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