Photos Barbershop Customs' thread

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Hey,
I've decided to create a thread where I will post our pieces
I hope you will enjoy our work
Every critique is welcome

Each of our knives has its unique name, which in my subjective feel suits the one. We don't make recurrent projects, we try to make each piece unique (the shapes might be sometimes similar to each other, but the grind, used materials and finish always differ). I also like adding a quote reffering to the name. The quote is usually historical, philosophical or is taken from poetry.

We have a knifemaking YouTube channel, the currently newest video is:

And here's the most popular one:

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Eagle
Steel: 80CrV2 3mm
Length: 230 mm
Blade width: 30 mm
Blade length: 110 mm
Handle: Stabilized wood, brass pins
Weight: 150 g

"Physics is privileged; it is the exception, which makes its imitation by other
disciplines similar to attempts to make a whale fly like an eagle" ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

 

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A bit too much fantasy has taken over designing this one. Whenever I look at this knife I smile, it just has this happy vibe in it, I don't know if you feel it too

One of my favourite projects so far.
This one also has a distal taper on the blade.

What do you guys think? Isn't it too loony?

Sialia
Steel: D2 (1.2379) 4.4 mm
Cryo heat treatment ~ 61 HRC
Length: 200 mm
Blade width: 32 mm
Blade length: 82 mm
Handle: Oak (dyed), brass pins
Weight: 160 g

"The bluebird carries the sky on his back." ~ Henry David Thoreau

 

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Rival
Steel: 80CrV2 4 mm
Length: 255 mm
Blade width: 34 mm
Blade length: 140 mm
Handle: Padauk, brass pins
Weight: 190 g

“Veni, vidi, vici” ~ Gaius Julius Caesar

 

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Anger
Steel: 80CrV2 4 mm
Length: 265 mm
Blade width: 36 mm
Blade length: 145 mm
Handle: Bog oak, brass liners, brass pins
Weight: 240 g

"Anger cannot be dishonest." ~ Marcus Aurelius

"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger." ~ Buddha

 

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Steel: D2 (1.2379) 4.4 mm
Cryo heat treatment ~ 61 HRC
Length: 230 mm
Blade width: 35 mm
Blade length: 110 mm
Handle: Stabilized wood burl, brass pins
Weight: 220 g

“Fortune favors the prepared mind” ~ Louis Pasteur

 

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Emperor
Steel: 80CrV2 4 mm
Length: 255 mm
Blade width: 35 mm
Blade length: 140 mm
Handle: American walnut, micarta liners, brass pins
Weight: 210 g

"No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor" ~ Tacitus

 

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Commissar
Steel: 80CrV2 4 mm
Length: 235 mm
Blade width: 37 mm
Blade length: 120 mm
Handle: Padouk, brass pins
Weight: 200 g

“Referring to Russian commissars as “half-gramophones, half-gangsters.” ~ George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

 

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Historian
Steel: 80CrV2 4 mm
Length: 235 mm
Blade width: 37 mm
Blade length: 120 mm
Handle: American walnut, brass pins
Weight: 200 g

“A historian is a prophet in reverse.” ~ Friedrich von Schlegel

 

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Revolutionary
Steel: D2 (1.2379) 4.4 mm
Cryo heat treatment ~ 61 HRC
Length: 215 mm
Blade width: 30 mm
Blade length: 100 mm
Handle: Niangon (exotic wood), brass pins
Weight: 150 g

"They shall all be guillotined" ~ Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary, his last words

 

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Ginger
Steel: 80CrV2 4 mm
Length: 255 mm
Blade width: 32 mm
Blade length: 140 mm
Handle: Mahogany, brass pins
Weight: 190 g

“While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.” ~ Mark Twain

 

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A hunting knife maybe?

Hawk
Steel: 80CrV2 3mm
Length: 230 mm
Blade width: 30 mm
Blade length: 110 mm
Handle: Stabilized wood, brass pins
Weight: 150 g

“When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes. ” ~ William Shakespeare, Henry V

 

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We have made another knifemaking video showing how we make our knives.
I hope you will find it helpful and entertaining.
Any opinion will be appreciated

Black Velvet Steel: 80CrV2 4 mm Length: 210 mm Blade width: 325 mm Blade length: 110 mm Handle: Bog Oak, brass pins Weight: 150 g "Black velvet and that little boy smile" ~ Alannah Myles

 

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One of the older projects

Witness
Steel: 80CrV2 4 mm
Lenght: 240 mm
Blade width: 34 mm
Blade lenght: 120 mm
Handle: Oak, 120 mm, brass pins
Weight: 220 g

“There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.” ~ Sophocles

 

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New video!
This time we've decided to make a kunai

 

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Buzzard - Myszołów
Steel: 80CrV2 4 mm
Lenght: 230 mm
Blade width: 30 mm
Blade lenght: 105 mm
Handle: Stabilized poplar burl, brass pins
Weight: 180 g

“Birds of prey don’t sing” ~ James Richardson

 

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Half nessmuk half bowie

Pandemonium
Steel: D2 (1.2379) 4.4 mm
Length: 300 mm
Blade width: 40 mm
Blade length: 165 mm
Handle: D2, bog oak, icewood, carbon pins
Weight: 310 g

“The flip side of freedom is this: When you’re completely free, you’re also completely on your own” ~ Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

 

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Defender
Steel: D2 (1.2379) 4.4 mm
Length: 195 mm
Blade width: 25 mm
Blade length: 100 mm
Handle: Stabilized wood burl, brass pins
Weight: 180 g

“The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.” ~ John Locke

 

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Projector
Steel: D2 (1.2379) 4.4 mm
Length: 230 mm
Blade width: 36 mm
Blade length: 110 mm
Handle: Stabilized wood, brass pins
Weight: 210 g

“The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.” ~ B.H. Liddell Hart

 

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Zen
Steel: D2 (1.2379) 3.1 mm
Length: 235 mm
Blade width: 39 mm
Blade length: 127 mm
Handle: Bog Oak, brass pins
Weight: 150 g

"The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground." ~ Ernest Wood

 

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New knifemaking video!
This time we have decided to customize a Fallkniven S1
I hope you will enjoy it find it helpful

Any feedback will be appreciated
If you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer