A fresh 7” chef done for a custom order. 800 layer random pattern steel, black walnut, buckeye burl, maple burl, and curly oak handle with nickel silver accents. The woods and colors are significant to the customer. #classy #customchefknife #handmadeknife
I posted a picture yesterday of a thread cutting jig—“jig almost seems like an over statement”—and a few people commented or messaged asking for more information. Here is a three-part video to show how it works. By the way I take no credit for this idea; I’m pretty sure I actually came across it here on Instagram a few years ago, but I have no idea who the credit belongs to. But man does it make this operation easier. Very nearly idiot proof. #machining #tools #toolbox #workbench
This is the “easy button” for die cutting exterior threads on a knife tang (or other rod). There is a hole in the block, exactly on center with the die, and sized to the rod to be threaded. The block slides down over the rod and guides the die into the cut nice and square. (If you’re out of square, whatever you thread onto it will seat crookedly.) It makes this operation so much simpler. #machining #easybutton #mechanicalengineering #useful
AVAILABLE: 7” Chef knife in low layer high carbon damascus with stabilized brown myrtle. #cookinginstyle #foodielife #foodiepics #foodstagram #cookmypassion
I’m pretty pumped about this billet of redwood burl I just got from @c.jacob.woods ! If I cut it carefully there’s enough material in here for 30-40 handles. #redwoodburl #burl #woodwork #beautifulwood
Fixin’ to finish grind this trio of damascus cooking knives. 10” chef, 7” chef, 3.5” paring knife. These should be finished in the next couple of weeks. #cook #cooking #foodnetwork #handmadegifts
A fresh 9” chef in low contrast damascus with African blackwood, phenolic, and silver. Classy, and ready to go to work. #knifeskills #cookingathome #cookinglife #handmadeknife
A matched carving set in damascus steel and Arizona ironwood, with fine silver and phenolic accents. This is a big, bold pair to have on your table for those special occasions. #ironwood #entertaininginstyle #texassize #meateater
I cut into a piece of stabilized sycamore just now, trying to get under a couple of light, superficial checks. This cut is about 1/8” into the block and holy COW! I’ve never seen a piece of solid-looking wood so internally shredded. I’m kinda stunned.
Hey what ever happened to filework, anyway? (Decorative file carving on the spine of this knife.) #customknifemaker #customknifemaker #handmade #freehand
$OLD! An 8” chef in high performance AEB-L stainless with red maple burl for the handle. This is a full tang knife, and it is quite light, weighing in at only 5oz (143g). This one is available. #chefsofinstagram #chefs #chefsknives #chefskitchen
7” chef in high carbon damascus and stabilized curly maple. Available. #highcarbonsteel #chef #cheflife🔪 #chefknives
A big carver coming down the line in laddered w’s damascus.
Here are two rough ground chef’s knives in a multi-bar twist configuration. The edge is a simple 45 layer twist, but the other three bars in each blade are a complex gordian firestorm configuration. #damascussteelknife #damascusknives #patternwelded #handforged
Two identically configured multi bar twist billets, before forge welding on the left, and after forge welding (plus a couple security heats) on the right. These will become chef knives soon. #damascussteel #cheflife #cheftools #cookingathome
Twin multi-twist lollipops. Three bars of bi-directional gordian firestorm, one plain twist for the edge. I’m excited to get these forge welded and forged out to see how the combo looks. Should be pretty slick. #damascussteel #damascussteelknife #damascussteelknives #damascusknife
Working on a set today. #luxury #fancystuff #handmade #ironwood
A pretty sizable billet of Texas Wind damascus. It’s 78” long, 2.125” wide, and .156” thick. Keeping it straight is a task; steel hot steel gets pretty floppy at these dimensions. #forged #damascussteel #damascus #blacksmithing #forgewelding #patternwelded
A pair of bars I twisted last night, on their way to becoming gordian firestorm damascus. #twistdamascus #damascussteel #damascusknife
Here’s a fun little piece of my personal bladesmithing history. This is a little test piece I cut off of my very first kerosene welded damascus billet. Just five layers, I did this as a proof of concept, and my disbelief at how easy the process was bordered on dismay—I’d been doing it the hard way for so long! That was eight years ago, in 2013, and in the years since I have made hundreds of pounds of damascus, using maybe 2x the flux I would have used on a single billet, the old way. #forgewelding #damascussteel #experimentation #milestone