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A Little Bit of the Forge

I bought a piece of san mi steel at a sale . This is a sandwich of two different types of steel, a high carbon core with an other cladding of stainless steel that results in a knife with stainless sides but a easily sharpened carbon cutting edge.

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Steak set for Vicki

Responding to a request from my wife Vicki, I put together this set of steak knives using AEB-L stainless steel with huon pine handles.

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21st knife and left handed gift

My brother Peter gave me a beautiful French style chefs knife for my 21st birthday that I still use to this day. for over 40 years it has been the main knife in my kitchen, and a few years ago I was able to replace the handle which had seen better days. …

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Broken Bowie to Sgian Dubh

When I was about 18, I had a great Bowie knife. No idea what happened to it but I have never forgotten it and when I started knife making, the design of that Bowie was never far from my thoughts.

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Cooks knife

A little bit smaller than a traditional chefs knife with an all rounder style blade, this cooks knife will take most jobs in the kitchen…

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Custom knife for Mum.

Last time she visited, my Mum was telling me that she had trouble using the kitchen knives that she had because her arthritis made the slim handles difficult to grasp, so we decided to work together to create a knife that fitted her hand and the way she liked to use a knife in the kitchen….

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A Knife for a Wedding — And a Lifetime After

When my youngest daughter Laura was getting married , I wanted to make a knife for them to cut their wedding cake with and which could then become a part of their lives and their shared history….

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Sri Lankan Kastane

When we left Sri Lanka in 1975 my Dad bought a lot of antique furniture and cultural items to take a piece of Sri Lanka with him when we moved to Australia . I went with him on many of his foraging trips to various antique dealers around Colombo, and at one of them I saw this sword and fell in love with it….

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W2 Stolen Knife

A few years back we were burgled and along with some cameras and our entire security system recording box, I lost about a dozen knives including this one which I had just finished and was feeling very happy with.