A few of my recent Neo-Japanese pieces - COOP PHOTO ADDED

[Matthew Gregory]

Been busy making these, lately, but haven't posted often, namely because these are all usually spoken for before I finish them. All of these feature a hand polished beveled spine.


First up is an 8-1/2" blade with sori in .295" thick Crucible CPM-4v, featuring a lenticular grind and a brilliant red rayskin handle with a touch of 'coffin-handle' to the butt. This customer requested a kydex sheath as well as the shark skin covered, ultrasuede-line aluminum sheath shown here:

This one is kind of a newer model, for me - yet again in .295" thick Crucible CPM-4v, but with a 6" flat ground blade and a tapered tang under the black rayskin and tsukaito:

Last up is a complement to the 14" wakizashi I posted here. The customer that bought the waki had initially requested a 5" model, so I can enough sense to save the materials to make the appropriate match. This, too, is flat ground in .295" thick Crucible CPM-4v.

There's one more, but the owner suggested we have this one shot by Mr. Cooper, so I'll follow up with the results from that soon, hopefully.

Thanks for looking, gang!

 

[Storm Crow]

I've said it on Instagram, but that red one is darn sweet!

 

[samuraistuart]

Absolute works of art!!!! I need to scrape up my penny's so I can join the club. I just don't see how you can improve upon Matt's work. AT ALL. The knife community is blessed and honored to have such a talent gracing it's presence.

 

[AVigil]

You so sexy

 

[Dawkind]

Always exceptional my friend.....

 

[Mike157]

Treasures, all. Mike

 

[BenR.T.]

You know I'm a fan.

 

[Lycosa]

All of the above and like Jams said, the Red.
rolf

 

[john april]

very inspirational. i have to try something japanese-ish soon.

 

[i4Marc]

You're doing great work Matt.

 

[Don Hanson III]

Great work Matt!

 

[Steve Nuckels]

Those are very appealing, I like your work!

Steve
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Member, W.F. Moran Jr. Foundation
ABS Apprentice

 

[Mark Knapp]

Very clean, I like them.

 

[Daniel Fairly Knives]

Outstanding work!

 

[Craig Daniel]

They are very nice but number one is my pick!

 

[wdtorque]

Lovely work. I like them all. Middle is my fav.
Dozier

 

[Darrin Sanders]

Honestly don't know which one I like best. Can't wait to see Coop's shots.

 

[Mecha]

What, no Youtube vid of the knives turning a piece of 2-lb test fishing line into a micro fuzz stick? No footage of splitting a ladybug's eyelash into microscope slide slices?

 

[김원진]

beautiful pieces, lucky owner :thumbup:

 

[Rick Marchand]

The proportions of this really sing to me, man. The point where the "shinogi-ji" meets the spine seems to be at exactly the right spot. It's got that whole Fibonacci thang going on.

I hate to admit it but you actually did a good job. (get a screen-shot before I edit this out)

Ps. Did you take this pic with the knife resting on your naked thigh? SPF 60, buddy... use it.