I've just completed my first three day Damascus chef's knife class with a student. On day one Mark made the billet and performed multiple forge welds on it to get his layer count up to 124 layers. The billet was made from 1075 + Cr high carbon tool steel, 15N20 and pure nickel. The blade was also hardened and tempered by the end of the first day. Day two consisted of grinding his blade to shape and then grinding in his primary bevels. No… View More
This is the latest knife to come out of the shop. This is a San Antonio D-guard bowie with a two part construction hand guard, an 11" - 283mm long blade made from W-1 high carbon tool steel sporting a clay quenched Hamon and an overall length of 430mm just a tad over 17" long. It has a dyed Sambar stag handle with coined nickel silver spacers, a wrought iron bolster and a hand stitched Mexican belt loop sheath. This knife also comes with… View More
Because of the high demand for course days and the small class sizes that I run. Your course dates can only be guaranteed to you once payment has been made in full at the time of… View More
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