A fun little Shortcut (medium) in river of fire damascus. This will be a slick little knife! #edcknife #edcgear #handmade #knifesales
A bar of damascus, with ridges pressed into it. #damascussteel #blades #bladesmith #blacksmith
Well that was unpleasant. These are the fragments of a brand new cup stone, which weighs about 5 pounds. This one exploded, and one of the chunks hit me right in the hip at a 1,000mph. Felt like I’d been kicked by a donkey. I’m fine, just bruised, but wouldn’t you know it, that was my last new one! Argh.
End grain on some crushed w’s. Getting ready to fold this one more time. #damascussteel #forgewelding #blacksmithing #metalsmith
Getting ready for some san mai (three-layer) action. The two thicker segments are 360 layer random pattern, and the center piece is solid 1084. #sanmai #forgewelding #damascussteel #handmade
Some random pattern damascus, fire etched from the forging process. #damascussteel #damascusknife #handforged #bladesmith
An 8” chef in loose ladder and stabilized redwood burl. SOLD #chef #chefknife #cooking #nicethings
Working on some Shortcuts in AEB-L stainless. 10 large and 10 medium here, will get some stalls going too. #edc #edcgear #edcknife #edcknives
This is a combination skiving knife and head knife design I came up with a few years ago. Those are both leather working tools used for thinning and trimming material. The shape of the blade, handle angle relative to the edge, the offset in the handle, and the edge geometry makes this an extremely effective tool. It is one of very few totally original ideas I claim for my own and it works awesome. #leathercraft #leatherwork #leatherworker #leatherworking
Matching 8” santoku and 10” chef in raindrop/fireball damascus with 35,000 year old stabilized swamp kauri handles and nickel silver bolsters with g10 accents. SOLD #cooking #luxurykitchen #finedining #customorder
Well, 6500 pounds of concrete later…the footing is in place! It will need to cure for a month, but once it is all hardened up I can put the hammer back in place and get to hammering! What a project. #concrete #heavymachinery #workshop #powerhammer
Ready for concrete tomorrow! Long story short, my new power hammer was too much for even 8” of solid, reinforced concrete. My buddy @j.a.metalcraft fabbed up this frame for me, with bolts welded in place. The whole frame will be cast with new, higher PSI concrete and isolated from the surrounding floor. It will take a least a month to dry, but once it’s done the bigger hammer should be rock solid and good to go. #powerhammer #blacksmith #machine #concrete
A Black Tie River Gaucho in ladder damascus and black feathered maple with some bright bark inclusions. Handy little devil. #knife #customknives #handmade #edcknife
Gyuto. 11” river of fire damascus, with micarta and stainless steel bolster, and a yellow cedar burl handle. #gyuto #damascussteel #damascusknife #handmade
A dining bowie. 12.5” blade in burning ladder damascus, with curly walnut, micarta, and stainless steel. Roughly 17.5” overall. SOLD (custom order) #finedining #luxury #damascussteel #handmadeknife
A couple of the handles curing overnight. Curly walnut on the left and yellow cedar burl on the right. #knifehandle #knife #knifemaker #knifemaking
Matching 7” and 10” chefs in a loose ladder pattern with maple burl handles. #chef #chefknives #damascuschefknife #cookingwithfire
Well that was unpleasant. ~45 cubic feet of material moved, including 8” of concrete, 24” of compacted fill, and 16” of heavy, rock-stuffed clay. And no, I’m not getting ready to bury a body. This will be the new footing for my big power hammer.
A 7” chef in River of Fire damascus with some smoke show amboyna burl and a micarta and stainless steel bolster. SOLD #chef #chefknives #luxurykitchen #damascussteel
A 7” chef in Raindrop (or Fireball) damascus and stabilized brown feathered maple. It’s impossible to show in a photo but the maple is beautifully chatoyant, shimmers like polished tiger’s eye. #chef #raindropdamascus #handmadeknife #mastersmith