DESCRIPTION
OAL: 5.5 inches open
Blade: 2 inches
Handle: African Blackwood
Steel: 1080/15n20 300 layer random damascus
OAL: 5.5 inches open
Blade: 2 inches
Handle: African Blackwood
Steel: 1080/15n20 300 layer random damascus
Running a wood shop and a knife shop out of a smallish two-car garage presents many challenges, but the lack of space for all the new tools we “need” is probably the most challenging. An additional challenge is the fact that one of us is a hyper-organized-neat-freak and the other is a pack rat. We recently bought a Rigid spindle sander, and after months of moving it around from work bench to garage floor to the top of the table saw, I just couldn’t take it anymore. It needed a home.
Occasionally friends, acquaintances, former customers, and total strangers will ask me questions about getting started at making knives. I applaud and encourage any effort that serious, thoughtful folks want to make toward engaging themselves in the knife making craft. In fact, I really try to applaud and encourage serious and thoughtful folks in general. Anyway, here is a summary of what I think someone really needs to get started making knives:
As with sports, scholarship, and home brewing, knife making has many levels of possible involvement. Many start out buying pre-made blades and putting handles on them. This is a good practice, and as long as the maker is honest about the fact that the blade was made by someone else, it’s perfectly respectable.
The only reliable way to get one of my knives is to get on my mailing list, which you can do below. It will give you a head start on the general public, but you’ll still have to pull the trigger quickly if you want to get to it before the other 500 or so folks on the list. We promise no spam, and you can click unsubscribe when the emails we send are no longer relevant to you.
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