Pas de deux is a pair of knives commissionned by a loving son for his father. Petty and Gyuto are mounted in bog oak and steel ferrule. Both blades are sanmai damascus over a TNT666 core.
Read MoreEtude n°4 Clair-obscur Etude number 4 is a commission for Marco L. I chose to keep everything tone in tone to play with structures. Bog oak and sterling silver were used to mount this exceptional all damascus UHC/tungsten core sanmai highend blade.
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Sometimes I have the great luck to work with materials that are special to me. Among those curly birch has been for a long time of increasing interest. I was allowed for this true bespoke commission a free hand with it. This is the result: combined with african blackwood and bronze that sets the curlybirch off with their quiet and understated appearance, the overall impression is rich of features, yet well balanced in somewhat...
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After my friend Achim Wirtz gave me a piece of TNT666 to play with, I ended up with forging it as sanmai constructed blade material for cooking knives. while it firewelds like a dream it can be challenging in further working, if temperatures are not under control. after some experimenting, I came up with a viable heat treatment to make use of the steel´s properties. Thanks to his remarkable composition, there is little to very little...
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Myoushu is a highend damascus cooking knife. The blade is a composition of TWR/1.2513 vintage tungsten steel combined with 145sc and in a first weld and later with very thin layers of 75ni8 nickel steel covered by a springy jacket of s700 construction grade manganese steel and 75ni8 nickel steel that was later mixed with a very high carbon steel and 75ni8 nickel steel to create islands in the pattern at a later stage. The handle is...
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Alexandre wished a cooking knife of a special kind.After an intensive conversation about the different features the knife should have, we fixed every detail and fitted them to his anthropomorphic measurements.the result is here. I started the making with the pamor type named Udan Emas, which means gold rain.After some preparations, I decided to alter the idea to make something unusual, something never seen before. This view is for all...
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