First of all may I congratulate you all for sharing your wisdom, knowledge and gorgeous pictures of mainly rare handmade Japanese artisan knives and outside knives in exotic steels - they are all truly amazing - well done to you all !
To me, until fairly recently a knife was just a tool and I collected a variety of shapes and sizes - mostly budget Chinese ones.
I have one decent knife. an English bespoke caidao in RWL-34 that a collector offered me thousands for but I am saving it for my son when I die.
I am afraid all the sharpies are in bed asleep - because it`s late !
Nope - it would have taken me all night to get them out, arrange them, light them and photograph them and put them all safely back in bed.
Most of these knives are too cheap and ugly to get out of bed.
So to peruse...
Here`s a few choppers with a triple cut Sheffield steel and a diamond sharpening rod on the left.
The bottom right one is a Kiwi caidao - Chinese Chef`s knife and the middle one with the 0.4mm - 1/64th of an inch thick scalloped blade is a vintage 1970`s Appalachian bow fiddle knife for cutting any bread effortlessly with hardly any crumbs.
Here`s a couple of bespoke oak knife boxes and bunches of scissors.
The tall black-handled knife is a 15" commercial cheese cutter that is about two foot long and the two big scissors at the back are 20 inches 3lb beasts with 1cm - over 1/3rd of an inch thick blades.
Here`s two bunches of knives next to a 4" coffee mug.
This is three bunches of knives
For scale the two dark wooden handle knives with 3 rivets each are 19 inches long in total.
The white handled one at the front is 15 inches long but looks tiny next to the 22" blade black handle Dick kebab knife on the right and the 19.5 inch blade Sabatier carbon with a light wood handle and 3 rivets on the left.
To me, until fairly recently a knife was just a tool and I collected a variety of shapes and sizes - mostly budget Chinese ones.
I have one decent knife. an English bespoke caidao in RWL-34 that a collector offered me thousands for but I am saving it for my son when I die.
I am afraid all the sharpies are in bed asleep - because it`s late !
Nope - it would have taken me all night to get them out, arrange them, light them and photograph them and put them all safely back in bed.
Most of these knives are too cheap and ugly to get out of bed.
So to peruse...
Here`s a few choppers with a triple cut Sheffield steel and a diamond sharpening rod on the left.
The bottom right one is a Kiwi caidao - Chinese Chef`s knife and the middle one with the 0.4mm - 1/64th of an inch thick scalloped blade is a vintage 1970`s Appalachian bow fiddle knife for cutting any bread effortlessly with hardly any crumbs.
Here`s a couple of bespoke oak knife boxes and bunches of scissors.
The tall black-handled knife is a 15" commercial cheese cutter that is about two foot long and the two big scissors at the back are 20 inches 3lb beasts with 1cm - over 1/3rd of an inch thick blades.
Here`s two bunches of knives next to a 4" coffee mug.
This is three bunches of knives
For scale the two dark wooden handle knives with 3 rivets each are 19 inches long in total.
The white handled one at the front is 15 inches long but looks tiny next to the 22" blade black handle Dick kebab knife on the right and the 19.5 inch blade Sabatier carbon with a light wood handle and 3 rivets on the left.
