Lets see your handmade Kitchen knives

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I'll start this off by putting up the first kitchen knife I made myself. She won't win any beauty pageants but she can slice like nobodies business.
This guy is 1/16" ats34 bocote scales and this one is for me and my wife. I love to cook fajitas and she loves to make pico de gallo. We were made for each other. It worked great for both. Thin blade = Slice. I didn't give it a fine finish, just a satin one since it was for personal use.

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Looking good Frank & I like ATS!!

here is a small Santoku & parer by Bret Dowell
pictured with what the parer was modeled on,sorta ATS 34 hollow ground,both

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I am glad I stumbled on this forum,I will be here alot I got a few to show.
-Vince
 
Here's a swedged blade,flat ground chef from Rick Menefee.This has a tapered tang,hand rubbed finish & butterscotch paper micarta (old stuff :thumbup:)

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Tony Bose slicer on minced venison

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Or venison steaks

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Oooh, new forum! I like it. Here are a few I'm working on. The first top knife is a wooden proto that I made to test size and handle. The first middle is a handle test for a steak knife that I actually still use to spread cream-cheese on bagels with. The blade is Titanium w/ 10% magnesium. The first bottom is a handle test and (chafron?) test that I didn't like anything about.
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This last one is a kitchen knife I made for the cook of the diner next door. Haven't given it to him yet, I still need to etch "Tom's Dull Knife" onto the blade. The blade was bought from Jantz but I did the handle out of Corian. I don't like corian, it keeps snapping on me. It was the first knife I used actual corby bolts on.
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Do fillet knifes count as kitchen cutlery?
 
Fillet/boner & butcher,by Rick Menefee.Same handles as the chef
I will do a seperate thread,on my set,when it is finished Right now I have some more "stuff" being worked up,in progress

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These are mine, the top bent one is K&G damascus blank with muskox and caribou, the cocobolo kitchen knife is a cut down Henkles, and the giant wharncliffe was my Cake Knife for our wedding.
 
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Larrin Thomas santoku

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Takeda 240AS chef knife

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Moritaka wa-gyuto

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Moritaka yo-deba

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Moritaka parer
 
Here are the ones I've made and use:

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All of these are stock removal.

The top one is my first (and so far only) chef's knife: 3/16 A2 with a black
walnut burl ferule and mortised holly handle (both woods stabilized by K&G)
and a black micarta pin.

Below that is a curvy "Persian" paring knife from 1/16 A2 with some more of
the stabilized black walnut burl.

The two skinny knives are the first I'll admit to making in my own shop:
3/32 O1 with handles of what I think is some rosewood plywood that's
actually quite nice for working knives (sold on eBay as "pau ferro" which
should be tulipwood but clearly isn't in this case). They're not very pretty
but both get used a lot -- the supper skinny flexible warencliff turns out to
be ideal for slitting the foil on wine bottles.

Also in the third row is my first attempt at the persian paring knife design.
It's a reject that I'm still using something like three years later. Either 1/8
or 3/32 O1 with stabilized canary wood handles that are pretty boring.

Next is a replica of an Old Hickory butcher knife: 3/32 A2 with real tulipwood
scales.

Finally a carving knife with an O1 blade and dark cocobolo scales. At least
I think it's O1; if so it's the last blade I did before switching to A2 for carbon
steel stock removal.

BTW: the background is some of the swamp salvage redwood burl I just got
back from WSSI. I'm looking forward to using some of it :D

One of the projects I plan to start this year is a bunch of stock removal
kitchen blades from 3/64 CPM3V (parers and fillet knives with maybe a
few friction folders or neck knives from scrap) and some more parers,
Persian utilities (including one that I get to keep this time) and my first
Santokus out of 13C26. All of this will be heat treated by Peter's heat
treat, thus saving me a few cryo and warping headaches and motivating
me to prepare a big batch to take advantage of Brad's fixed price in the 4
blades - 20 lbs of blades range. If I pull this off I may finally have enough
stock to sell something. (of course I also started forging last year and
that is likely to be a major distraction...)
 

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My first knives were kitchen knives. I figured that If I was going to put that much time and effort into a blade, I wanted to use it every day. What better than a kitchen knife?

My first handmade blade
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A progression of chef knives
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Phillip
 
Here is a santoku I just finished today and lo and behold, I found this sub-forum today too. It is 1095 with a stabilized redwood burl handle. Approximately 7" cutting edge. Any critique is appreciated.

Some really nice knives in this thread.

-Mike

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Phil and Mike: those are some beautiful knives. What's the approx. thickness of the blades?

Dan: Nice photo. I love seeing pictures of knives that have been well used.
 
Phil and Mike: those are some beautiful knives. What's the approx. thickness of the blades?

Dan: Nice photo. I love seeing pictures of knives that have been well used.

Mine is 3/32" at the spine with a full flat grind so it is pretty thin. I have made quite a few in this style and they are real cutters. Glad you like it.

-Mike
 
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